Game Info
Year
2024
Players
1-5
Age
10+
Playtime
20 min
Collection
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Description
Village-building defense game where players fortify their village against creatures and direct them towards neighbors
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Rolling Dice & Taking Names Review at 35:09 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Fun tower defense style gameplay.
- Interactive card drafting (passing monsters to opponents).
- Strategic tableau building with directional defense.
- Quick setup and playtime.
- Engaging player interaction and trash talk.
- Considered one of the best games played so far in the year.
Cons
- May not be as fun with only two players.
Thematic elements
- Defending a village against attacks from witches, werewolves, vampires, and demons.
- A village.
Comparison games
- Carcassonne
- After the Empire
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Defenses must be placed strategically to counter attacks from specific directions (left, top, right).
- Card Drafting — Players draft village cards and then draft monster cards to pass to opponents.
- Hand Management — Players manage a hand of cards to build their village.
- Resource Management — Managing villagers and defenses to survive monster attacks.
- Tableau Building — Players build a village by placing building and hero cards.
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Quotes (from this video)
- If you like this sort of thing let us know go to our Discord channel that you can find over at R iak names.com make sure to subscribe or join and if it's like oh wow you guys got a lot of stuff in I like this as opposed to listen you guys talk for 20 minutes about medical conditions and things that go on when you get old and jump straight into games instead.
- This is one of those games that will stay on my shelf for the again for the link the play and ease to explain the rules it I think it's just a really really good solid filler game.
- It's a fun stock market game hidden as a pickup and delivery game.
- Each of these are extremely unique.
- So far as of May 24 this is one of the best games I've played so far this year.
- This was definitely in May of 2024 you'll be on Tony's you know best games of the year list.
- Simple rules but cooperatively there's a lot of strategy and stuff going on as you play.
- Opening a pack of cards is like smelling a rainbow.
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Watch It Played News at 2:23 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Drafting and card placement with a theme I'm into.
- Sounds good, trying it as soon as possible.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- vampire village defense
- heart of a hostile region
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Players select cards to build their village.
- Drafting — Players draft cars to build their village and recruit heroes.
- Hand Management — Players receive creature cards to split between themselves and neighbors.
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- Arelo the board game brings the same colorful world and compelling characters from the video game to life on the tabletop.
- It's not about being faster than the vampire is it it's about being faster than the person next to you.
- The description to me is tantalizing but also admittedly doesn't tell us too much about how to play this political card game but there's something about this one that's really got me interested.
- I split you choose mechanism it's criminally underrated.
- This is probably one of my top five gaming experiences of all time and I will 1,000% be getting this when it's out we just have to wait until 20125.
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Board Stupid Discussion at 18:10 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- sharp social interaction and tension
- compact playtime around 15-20 minutes
- high replayability through drafting choices
Cons
- can be punishing with hate drafting
- may feel harsh for casual players
Thematic elements
- horror drafting and defense
- villages attacked by vampires and other creatures
- lightly spooky, strategic planning under pressure
Comparison games
- Seven Wonders Duel
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- hate drafting — Draft cards strategically to hinder others while building your own village.
- multi-board interaction — Three boards/areas create tension and scoring decisions.
- village-building with defense tokens — Place tiles to build a village and defend against monster attacks.
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's a murder mystery kind of uh... set in Paris in the 1920s
- the arc at the end goes bam
- it's a tug of war game because you have two boards going on
- this is the Dark Horse of the show
- Pac-Man edition of corridor doesn't come in this size regularly
- it's a pushy luck dexterity game
- the whole concept of hate drafting I know that very well
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