Game Info
Year
2020
Players
2-4
Age
13+
Playtime
60 min
Complexity
2.6/5
Collection
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Description
A tile-placement and tableau-building game in which 2-4 players each grow their own hydrothermal-vent ecosystem in the deep ocean. Players add geological features and exotic creatures each turn, competing for efficiency and preying on neighboring systems to survive the abyss.
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Getting Games Top 24 List at 9:45 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- easy to grasp rules with incentivization
- tema and engine-building potential
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- underwater exploration and resource management
- deep-sea vent ecosystem
- futuristic/organic
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- area development and interaction — tiles activate to generate archaebacteria or trigger effects
- tile drafting and activation — draw tiles, skip by placing archaebacteria, activate tiles
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- I love rondelle's as a mechanism in general
- wandering around an island in a hot-air balloon and the whims of the wind
- endless variability or replayability
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watch it played Rules Teach at 0:00
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Quotes (from this video)
- on your turn you'll perform four steps here
- the leftmost hex is always free to take
- every other player loses one archaea from their personal supply as damage
- your ecosystem collapses and you're eliminated from the game
- you must trigger its effect rather than grow
- the player with the most points has created the best ecosystem and wins
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watch it played Rules Teach at 0:16 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- underwater life and predator-prey interactions within a tile-based ecosystem
- underwater ecosystem near deep vents
- emergent, tile-driven growth and interaction of ecosystems
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- archaea resource management — archaea are tracked in personal supplies and shared pools; some tokens count as five archaea; a maximum of ten archaea can be on any one tile
- Attack and Damage — tiles can attack opponents via arrows; damage is dealt to each opponent and can be blocked by shells
- Closed Economy — shells can be spent to gain shells or to block damage from attacks, reducing incoming damage
- Combat: Damage Based — tiles can attack opponents via arrows; damage is dealt to each opponent and can be blocked by shells
- decimate and flip — certain tiles can be decimated, removing all archaea from them and flipping the tile face down for the rest of the game
- end-of-game scoring — final scoring accounts for archaea in personal supply, shells, and total archaea on tiles (with rounding), with penalties if shortfall tokens exist
- Engine Building: Triggered/Cascading — when resolving a tile you may either grow archaea on it or trigger its effect; you cannot do both on the same tile during the resolution
- grow or trigger — when resolving a tile you may either grow archaea on it or trigger its effect; you cannot do both on the same tile during the resolution
- passive effects and adjacency — tiles have passive effects that interact with adjacent tiles, influencing growth outcomes
- Resource Management — archaea are tracked in personal supplies and shared pools; some tokens count as five archaea; a maximum of ten archaea can be on any one tile
- shell economy — shells can be spent to gain shells or to block damage from attacks, reducing incoming damage
- shortfall and elimination — taking more damage than you can pay can result in shortfall tokens; accumulating two or more shortfall tokens eliminates you from the game
- tile drafting with skip costs — on a turn you pick a hex tile from a face-up row; skipping tiles requires placing one archaea on each skipped tile
- tracking cubes — a tracking cube on a tile indicates how many archaea you gain when its growth is resolved on future turns
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- on your turn you'll perform four steps here
- the leftmost hex is always free to take
- every other player loses one archaea from their personal supply as damage
- your ecosystem collapses and you're eliminated from the game
- you must trigger its effect rather than grow
- the player with the most points has created the best ecosystem and wins
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