Game Info
Year
2016
Players
2-5
Age
12+
Playtime
40 min
Complexity
2.1/5
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Description
A Victorian-themed worker-placement game where families compete to bury their deceased relatives in the best grave plots
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Rolling Dice & Taking Names Discussion at 1:28 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Fun theme
- Fun art
Cons
- Light strategy, might need a full play to form a complete opinion
Thematic elements
- Trying to pick burial plots for your family in prestigious areas of the land.
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bidding — Players bid on who gets their coffins put onto the gravedigger's cart.
- bluffing — There's 'some bluffing' and 'deduction' regarding who's going to play what card.
- Majority Control — Having majorities in one area grants bonus points.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- if you've ever seen pictures of J con as the ventar gets R open you know how much of a mad house it is well this is a smaller con so I'm going to show you what it looks like and how see how Gen Con compares to Origins
- It's a good deal they brought 100 copies we got kind of a running bet going around here on how soon they'll sell out because we think it's going to be pretty quick
- I was big on dead of winter last year I think it's a great CAU game with a potential of a Traer aspect to it
- it's a lot of fun one of the so the hunters are are going around the map and using their line of sight to try to find the spy and then they get shots at him and depending on how far the away they are how how effective those shots are and uh in the in the five player game one of those Huns is a traiter so you might think that okay well we got this street covered he's looking there but one of these guys could be the spine so he could have crossed there and so it it totally it's a you know it's a mind game and starts to get in the Hunter's head nobody trusts anybody
- Unique Mechanics are there's a insider trading element so everyone gets a secret piece of information and they're trying to deduce what the other pieces of information that players have but the main mechanic is the big and that's what people love you place cards face up and face down and then bid on them using your secret information it's a blast
- it is a really really good 5 to 10 minute game it's amazing um it will teach you to subliminally think like two three four turns ahead and it's very simple you pick it up there's five cards in the game there's 16 total but you Shuffle up and you only use five they tell you how you can move your pieces and the object is either capture your opponent's king or be able to get your king into your opponent's starting space it's really really quick easy to learn really really fun play and you can play a lot of games in a short amount of time
- This is a really fun and exciting game it's set in this fantasy steampunk world where you are an entrepreneur trying to help finish off this Grand City of gears and every game there's going to be nine tiles that are randomly laid out you're going to have to use your workers to explore the city and discover what's out there so every game it's going to be different
- Mage Wars right now big game little bit of a complex game it's designed for specific type of gamer a lot of people look at it and maybe go well that might be a little too much I maybe don't want to jump into it Academy is actually going to be designed for that new player it's going to take existing players and give them a more portable faster way to play but it's also going to be a lower barrier to entry for newer players
- what I feel like I won but but you didn't who did win we'll get to that we'll get to that we'll get let's not ruin it let's not ruin it let's keep going
- even in last place it also makes it a little bit easier to play because you just go as forward as fast as you can well I ended up catching back up with everybody and then we made a game out of it I thought I was out of it but I was still right back in it so I think the Mechanics Work really well
- the nice thing of letting Marty win yes was really nice orchestrated that okay that had to come out
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Watch It Played Analysis at 4:16
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- morbidly humorous family game about bidding for relatives on a death cart to get their inheritance
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bidding — Players will be bidding to get their dead relatives onto the death cart.
- Simultaneous Play — Regardless of the number of players, the game should take approximately the same amount of time.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- there's not really going to be a lot of direct sales happening here I wouldn't say although there may be there may be some during the day of course there'll be also be seminars for retailers to attend as well including Premier presentations
- legendary one of their Premier games is going to be featured on tabletop and any game that is featured on tabletop sees an immediate boost in sales
- the Fantastic 4 one that one's being discontinued
- Secret Wars is the next big expansion announced for Marvel legendary
- the various universes of Marvel are colliding and when I say the various ones I mean like the traditional 313 Marvel Universe Ultimate Universe um the cartoon Universe like the X-Men cartoon so Wolverine from that cartoon be fighting The Wolverine from the 313 Universe plus the Wolverine from the Ultimate Universe
- upper deck which is really pushing and expanding their gaming line is going to be releasing a Euro right a traditional Euro although it has a rather unique theme it's called bring out your dead
- the legendary system has been quite popular for upper deck and they introduced the aliens world with an encounter set and this is uh a different style of play than maybe what you saw in our Marvel legendary series
- think of it like a living card game they can't call it that because that's fantasy flight's terminology but essentially that's the format that you're looking at here
- they also announced that they'll be releasing a crow board game now this is not within the legendary system or any of the other systems as far as I realized but a brand new board game property based on the crow intellectual property
- Firefly shiny dice an upcoming push your luck game in the Firefly Universe of course many people were excited about that
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Watch It Played Rules Teach at 0:20 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Scales well for different player counts (2-5).
- Fast playing game once icons are learned.
- Thematic componentry (wooden coffins).
- Strategic depth with board manipulation.
Cons
- Negative points for coffins left in the river.
- Risk of players blocking each other from scoring.
Thematic elements
- Handling the remains of deceased family members to secure inheritance during a plague.
- 14th century Europe
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Majority — Players gain benefits for having the majority of coffins in specific sections of the cemetery.
- Card Drafting — Players choose three cards from their hand each round to play simultaneously.
- Hand Management — Players manage a hand of cards with numerical values and actions, aiming to play them strategically.
- Push Your Luck — Players can choose face-up or face-down cards, and there's a risk of coffins ending up in the river for negative points if not handled.
- Set Collection — Players aim to gather points by filling graves with coffins, with bonuses for controlling sections of the cemetery.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- My name is Rodney Smith. I'm here at GTS Distributions Come and Play in Atlanta and I'm here with Travis with Upper Deck Games.
- It's a lot of boardroom manipulation. I can see like this one here. It looks like you take a grave out of one, move it to another. So, I don't like you having that majority. Play the card. I could I could play the card and maybe move and swap around.
- So, with all that, it creates some of these surprises, right, in the game play.
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All You Can Board Discussion at 8:49 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Humorous theme with dark humor balanced
- Fun, quick, plays up to five players
- Hidden information adds depth
Cons
- Theme may not suit everyone
- Not necessarily a repeat hit for all players
Thematic elements
- dark humor and morbid subject matter rendered light
- morbid, humorous cemetery scenario
- simultaneous card play with initiative order; variable graveyard slots
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Affirmed negative scoring options — Certain plots impose negative points or penalties.
- Area scoring and set collection — Points for plots with family members; bonus points from treasure cards.
- Card-driven placement and overflow — Players may place family members into cemetery plots; overflow loses points.
- Compound Scoring — Certain plots impose negative points or penalties.
- Point Salad — Points for plots with family members; bonus points from treasure cards.
- Simultaneous card reveal with initiative order — Players secretly choose three cards; reveal and resolve by highest initiative first.
- Simultaneous Reveal — Players secretly choose three cards; reveal and resolve by highest initiative first.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- There are so many games that go untalked about.
- They're obscure, they're rare, they're underappreciated, they flew under the radar.
- Bring Out Your Dead has a morbidly dark, humorous theme.
- Discworld Ank Morpork is a card-driven game that involves everyone having unique win conditions that aren't known to the other players.
- Honestly, this is just one of those games that needs to be experienced.
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Victory Pine Shelves Review at 0:04 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Blends morbid humor with strategic card management
- Interesting use of simultaneous reveal and initiative sequencing
- Unique cemetery/family plot theme that adds a fresh flavor to gameplay
Cons
- Humor and theme may not appeal to all players
- Overflow mechanics could complicate end-of-round planning
- Niche subject matter might limit broad market appeal
Thematic elements
- mortality, family duty, macabre humor
- cemetery, funeral rites, and family plots in a morbid, humorous context
- grimly humorous, satirical, darkly comic
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Players secretly select three cards to place in a cemetery cart, each card having its own ability.
- Card drafting / selection — Players secretly select three cards to place in a cemetery cart, each card having its own ability.
- initiative order by card value — Actions resolve starting with the highest-valued card.
- limited placement with overflow — The cemetery cart has limited spaces; if full, additional cards must overflow into a secondary area.
- Simultaneous Reveal — All players reveal three chosen cards at the same time each round.
- Variable card abilities — Each card carries a unique ability that can move or affect bodies in plots.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Bring Out Your Dead is a morbid, dark, humorous board game.
- There may not be spots left in the cart when it gets to you.
- A lot of these card abilities will see bodies from these plots get swapped around or be affected in different ways.
- It was an interesting exercise in finding some of these unique board games that exist that are actually fun, are actually good games.
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