Game Info
Year
2019
Players
2-4
Age
8+
Playtime
67 min
Collection
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Description
Necromancers compete to resurrect the most interesting party guests for their cabal using skull miniatures and bone currency
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Tabletop Tokki Top 10 List at 3:56 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Rich thematic flair
- Lots of little puzzles
Cons
- Can be dense for new players
Thematic elements
- Rituals to resurrect guests for a party
- Halloween party with rituals
- juicy, puzzle-like
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Pattern grid and action selection — Main track slides to dictate round actions; skulls grant private actions; guests placed into a pattern grid for resurrection.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- this is the game where you're going to be putting together a spooky Carnival filled with Oddities Horrors beasts and all sorts of variety of attractions in order to shock and thrill your audience
- it's cute it's very light-hearted but the set collection elements are actually really fun
- it's like being at a party and going from Booth to Booth
- one of my all-time favorite aesthetics in board gaming
- this is a really cool game ... it has a niroshima hex vibe
- the reference materials are so well put together that it's never difficult to know what to do next
- this is a gorgeously punishing game that I own
- the Bloody Inn is a card game where you lure and guests into your murder hotel
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Beyond Solitaire Discussion at 3:07:44
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
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Quotes (from this video)
- The Indie Games Night Market was a smash success, people were lining up hours in advance.
- It really started from my experience going to the Tokyo Game Market in Japan.
- We don't really have anything like that in the US like the design scene is very much focused on pitching to publishers.
- I wound up getting 26 applications and then had to kind of filter out what I thought would be the best kind of group of games to have available.
- The spirit of like just knowing that these were small Indie runs really like uh got a foothold in like a lot of people here in America.
- It's like the quintessential problem of like making art uh which is how do you do something for yourself that you also want people to play and to buy.
- I feel really strongly that a product that was made by hand made by one person should feel like it was made by one person made by hand and that those little Perfections actually breathe life into the thing that you made.
- The more Tools in your tool belt for what you know how to build you actually can make more interesting games.
- It's a Razor's Edge of like how much could you right cost versus time.
- It's important to me that it wasn't just like folks who were already hustling wanting to find another space to sell their stuff.
- Convincing a US audience especially to buy in is a little trickier.
- I don't need it to last forever I'm not looking for evergreens.
- For me it's not about leaving a mark necessarily it's about just like getting the thing I want out there and then moving on to the next thing I want to get out there.
- The best people utilize that as much as possible.
- Try Thinking by like subtraction right what is missing is such a good point.
- The Indie Games Night Market is a space to have fun when you're working.
- I got absolutely fooled by the bad guys on turn one I was poisoned and I was the investigator.
- I have not been excited for an exploding kitten game literally ever.
- It's definitely happening the next Pack's unplugged November 22nd.
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Game Night Picks - Pair Of Dice Paradise Top 5 List at 5:51 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- intriguing necromancer theme with a strong narrative hook
- promises tight action movement and programming rhythm
Cons
- limited public information pre-launch; may affect pre-order enthusiasm
- delivery timing uncertain with early-stage marketing
Thematic elements
- necromancy, dark humor, and party preparation
- necromancer party planning with undead guests
- gruesome yet playful with a strong thematic hook
Comparison games
- Dark Souls: The Board Game
- Zombicide: Undead Revival
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action movement — program actions to move your necromancer and followers on a board
- Programming — sequence-based actions to achieve goals and manipulate the dead
- theme-driven worker/guest management — manage guests and undead resources to maximize scoring
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I hate excluding people from my games it's the last thing I want to do
- I actually do appreciate and understand the tough decision that Gil Hova had to make
- it's a game that is definitely worth a second look if you missed it the first
- Hyperborea ... I scoop up Hyperborea when it first hit store shelves way back in 2014 and it remains on my shelves to this day
- you have conquered death and mastered all nine dimensions of space-time reality bends to your every whim and desire you yes you are the absolute best there has ever been a necromancer at the top of their game
- the dead back to life so they can throw a party with actual guests showing up
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