Game Info
Year
2024
Players
1
Age
16+
Playtime
25 min
Collection
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Description
Solitaire game where players decode a rulebook written entirely in alien symbols to guide a civilization
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Getting Games Discussion at 12:45 sentiment: positive
video_pk 87670 · mention_pk 229492
Click to watch at 12:45 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- artful presentation
- unique symbolic rulebook concept
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- iconography-driven solo puzzle
- alien civilization with symbolic rulebook
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Solo Play — designed as a solitary game with a heavy puzzle flavor
- Solo puzzle progression — single-player solitaire experience guiding an alien civilization
- symbol-based rulebook — rule book written entirely in symbols/icons
- symbols-based rules — rule book consists entirely of symbols/icons; deciphering is part of play
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Quotes (from this video)
- there's a deck construction element but it does not say that it's a deck builder
- opposing factions race to control or eliminate ancient Titan artifacts
- Beyond the Horizon ... 2.0 reimplementation sort of of Beyond the Sun
- the scoreboard itself is a mini-game of snakes and ladders
- it's essentially a 3X type game that really focuses on building out a communal Tech tree
- the gam play is simple on your turn you just do one of the six actions that shows up here
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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 12:29
video_pk 85601 · mention_pk 219777
Click to watch at 12:29 · YouTube ↗
Pros
none
Cons
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Thematic elements
Comparison games
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- The Gang
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- Monkey Palace
- SETI
- The Search for Art
- Artificial Intelligence
- Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- Wilmont's Warehouse
- Fromage
- The Crew
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
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Quotes (from this video)
- It was fantastic. It was just there was so much stuff going on that was really enjoyable.
- Well, I think there's that one Warhammer guy that syn There's some synthesizer show synthesizer synthesizer shows that I watch that have been around for a long time.
- We must slay them.
- Thanks for nothing, Danny Nunan.
- It's like, Oh, honey, I'm so sorry.
- This is the longest running weekly live stream thing held on YouTube 10 years or so in a row.
- Americans don't even like America.
- It's not like we're keeping track here yeah, who's keeping score
- Oh, really? Runner up code names.
- You don't make a podcast.
- I mean, the definition I don't even know what you're saying.
- You're just making up words.
- So defeist.
- Yeah, that gumballs.com. They suck.
- This is not a good website.
- The two eyes are swords.
- It's like, how does anybody know this guy exists?
- I'm always impressed when things like that exist.
- Oh, yeah. I guess you can. Yes, you can. But that's not the same because podcast is a different
- It's like, oh, you know, use use use non like you have didn't make this game colorblind uh friendly.
- Be excellent to one another as Bill and Ted would say.
- The fact that the dice rolls were so unlucky against me.
- I love the game, but it's when those dice rolls don't go your way.
- It's like, Oh, you know, should he fight the wolves or should he run away?
- This is the most evil, most powerful terrorist organization in the world that never wins.
- It's like, 'No, nobody's died. This is realistic.'
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Video JAmU0ZhEyWw
Beyond Solitaire Review at 2:04 sentiment: positive
video_pk 80948 · mention_pk 198776
Click to watch at 2:04 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Took off in a way that nothing else has.
- Provides stability during an unstable industry.
- Sells a copy every day, even two years later.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Interacting with aliens and understanding their language.
- Aliens with a different language.
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- So, um, you know, it it is all a fiction, but I you know, I I do I have spent time engaging with other RPGs for this you know, for this purpose and for a lot of other older things from the period.
- The front cover of the adventure book implores the the reader or the player or or or whatever you'd call it to um Hang on, I have it here. I do to figure out the truth of this queer mystery and I used the word queer, you know, in two ways, one of which is is a very strange kind of thing going on within the fiction. And the other, of course, is you know, as a queer person who grew up in the '80s and '90s and had to try to figure herself out not entirely successfully during that time.
- Because for the most part writing in board games especially is quite bad. Like the the quality of of of the flavor of the literary writing is quite abysmal almost across the board. Here's the thing. I'm good at it. I know I'm good at it. I know I'm probably a better writer than most people working in board games and I'm fine with that.
- And then on top of all that, there's all these annotations of the person who owned it. And so, you also have to piece together like parts of the life of the author of the module and the person who owned that and the way that this book then interacts with these other personal effects.
- And so, each of those things led into another thing. And while I was doing that video, um, and a big part of that story involves his time at Parker Brothers uh during a time when Parker Brothers was expanding to also do video games and children's books and records. And and then they ended up, you know, destroying their company doing that and that's how they were sold to Hasbro eventually.
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