Game Info
Year
2026
Players
2-6
Age
8+
Playtime
30 min
Complexity
2/5
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Description
Bag-building combat game in the DC Universe where players draw tokens to activate abilities and deal damage
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Grant Lyon Upcoming Games Preview at 2:28 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Asymmetric character options
- Tension of bag-building and planning
- Good replayability with multiple characters
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- superhero battles with asymmetric powers
- DC universe, superhero team combat
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Asymmetric powers — Each character has unique abilities and play styles, leading to replayability.
- Bag Building — Build a bag of tokens, draw from it on your turn, and assign them to attacks/defenses and special abilities.
- Head-to-head combat — Direct combat where players contend with each other using the tokens and abilities.
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Quotes (from this video)
- I love bag building because it always has that fun, exciting tension of like, I hope I get what I need.
- it's a lighter weight, you know, quicker playing game.
- Temple Twist has a table presents for days.
- thematically you are putting together like a table at the lunch cafeteria.
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BoardGameGeek Discussion at 10:27
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- DC Combat
- DC Comics Universe
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Bag Building/Token Draw — Every turn you're 'pulling tokens from a bag'.
- Push Your Luck — Players are 'pushing your luck, and unleashing your character's moves. Push too far and you trigger a crisis that costs you everything.'
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- Espresso, which is for two to five players, is a very fun, very small box card game about deduction, fulfilling contracts.
- Pass the Buck, a game of corporate responsibility management, designed by Carol Mertz and art by Carol Mertz as well.
- It's almost an engine builder. You're trying to do some set collection. It's very interesting You have to kind of play it twice.
- Holiday Hijinks are a series of 18-card escape room games.
- It's a lovely roll and write in a little small box. The menu or the boards fold out and looks like a traditional Asian old red and white menu that you might see.
- Neko Syndicate for one to four players. Designers Danny Garcia, artist is Jennifer Gurner. Ginnie Geener? I don't know. I'm so sorry. I don't know how to say her name. But publisher is Combo Games and 25th Century Games.
- It has broken my brain a little bit, but it's also quite a quick game.
- Bandido by Helvetiq. Yeah, that one's just super fun.
- Super Chunky is a fast card game of cats that just want to get fat. You're racing to eat the most kibble.
- Good Kitties is a much bigger It's a cooperative game with eight different missions where you are house cats who perform missions at night while your humans are asleep in order to take over the house.
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Review at 0:12 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Interesting and unique gameplay.
- Bag building mechanic is well-liked.
- Good component quality, especially the bag.
- Appeals to DC fans.
- Fast playtime.
- Intriguing comparison to Dice Throne.
Cons
- Iconography might be difficult to figure out.
- Some text on components is hard to read.
- Difficulty closing the box with the bag inside initially.
- Unclear purpose of the larger extra bag.
Thematic elements
- DC Comics characters fighting
Comparison games
- Dice Throne
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Bag Building — Players draw tokens from a bag to build their combat capabilities. 'bag building combat game... you're going to have tokens on it based on what you pull out of the bag. You're going to try to put your battle combats together... pulling tokens from your bag and you're putting the tokens in their different locations... you're pulling them out of the bag and you're placing them down.'
- Card Play — Players use cards that represent character abilities. 'So, just some abilities that he's going to have... we'll stick them right there.'
- token management — The game utilizes various tokens for different actions and abilities. 'it's going to revolve around lots of tokens... All your different kapows. Everything else... It's kind of showing all the different stuff you can get.'
- Variable player powers — Each character has unique abilities and starting configurations. 'different characters... Superman is going to be really easy to play. So, he's basically going to be one of your starting characters.'
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Quotes (from this video)
- What do you call a magician that lost his magic? Ian.
- Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the discriminating gamer.
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