Game Info
Year
2025
Players
1-5
Age
8+
Playtime
25 min
Complexity
2/5
Collection
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Description
Family mythological journey game where players navigate Odysseus through challenges with strategic choices
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kovray Discussion at 24:25 sentiment: positive
video_pk 85385 · mention_pk 218649
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Genuine designer excitement
- Strong thematic appeal
Cons
- New/experimental design may have a learning curve
Thematic elements
- Three-player cooperative deck-building with evolving decks
- Designer booth experience at Tokyo Game Market
- Hyped, highly anticipated
Comparison games
- Eternal Decks
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deck Building — As you progress, you obtain different decks and cooperate to progress the game.
- deck-building / cooperative progression — As you progress, you obtain different decks and cooperate to progress the game.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- "Lean into that like Elia said is lean into the fun."
- "If this video gets 100 thumbs up, Tyler will wear his tight shirt in the next video."
- "What’s this one? That is Sunset. It is actually really beautiful."
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Video XjRtnQenWrA
kovray Rules Teach at 4:46 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Trick-Taking — Players aim to win exactly a specified number of tricks.
- Trick-taking with exact-trick target — Players aim to win exactly a specified number of tricks.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Trick taking is this mechanism in where you're going to be playing face up cards in the center of the table.
- The trump suit will ultimately win over all other suits.
- Winning tricks isn't always the goal.
- Sometimes the game will reward you for winning as many tricks as you can.
- There are hundreds of trick- taking games out there.
- The joy of board games is really discovering which of these games really appeal to you.
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Video X-KLCesuCRU
kovray Top 10 List at 1:43:29 sentiment: positive
video_pk 84379 · mention_pk 214390
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- The thematic integration of Mount Olympus is strong.
- The mechanic of playing from the center adds strategic depth.
- The game simplifies bidding by having a fixed trick goal.
- Collecting different suits for movement is a clear objective.
- The designer is highly regarded for clever games.
Cons
- The market aspect requires careful attention.
- It can be difficult for everyone to meet their bid simultaneously.
Thematic elements
- A mythological journey with divine intervention.
- The journey back to Ithaca, influenced by the gods on Mount Olympus.
- null
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bidding — Players aim to win a set amount of tricks, which functions as a bid.
- Following suit — Players must follow suit if able.
- Set Collection — Collecting different suits is crucial for movement towards the goal.
- Trick-Taking — Players play cards in tricks, aiming to win a specific number of tricks based on player count.
- Variable player powers — Playing cards from Mount Olympus (the center) allows players to use resources beyond their hand.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- The player who played the second highest card in the lead suit wins the trick.
- You're trying to sting the other players with bees.
- If you collect the same valued bee, same color, same value, you get eliminated by going into anaphylaxis shock.
- This is the meanest trick taking game I've ever played.
- The market adds a lot of unique and interesting aspects to this game because of the way that everybody else can see it.
- The hierarchy gets really difficult to follow like there's so many different combinations that occur.
- The first phase is actually trick taking for cards. And the cards that you win, you'll be playing the second phase in a card shedding phase.
- The way that this game works is you'll shuffle those two decks together.
- I find it chaotically pleasing.
- I think that experience along with the trick taking is very unique.
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Video eeYkeExY6jU
kovray Top List at 6:33 sentiment: positive
video_pk 80931 · mention_pk 198679
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Looks really interesting.
- Gigamic usually does really good games with these types of games.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Follows Odysseus's journey.
Comparison games
- Acropolis
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Top placement — And it's top I believe it's top placement.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- So, we have two more games to talk Oh, wait, no. I guess four more games to talk about because two to buy and two to demo. Wait, one more to demo, two buy. Oops, silly little figured.
- You're going to play and you're going to instantly get hungry cuz all the unique illustrations and of all the little treats are just
- This is a The Lord of the Rings. The Lord of the Rings and it is a roll and write. It is a roll and write.
- I understand the game being like very much you're playing the person on your right and you're playing the person on your left. You're taking the role of like the good and the bad in this game to uh go on against the opposite on the right and the opposite on the left and I think there's a lot of interactions that go on, a lot of communication that will have to happen around the table to make sure that the turns are flowing.
- I'm a huge fan of Sashi and Sashi and they will be debuting to move Railway Porters at UKGE.
- It is by Taiki Shinzawa and it's a trick taking game where every player has a condition that they must follow in their trick taking. But every condition is different.
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