Game Info
Year
2023
Players
1-2
Age
14+
Playtime
45 min
Complexity
3.1/5
Collection
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Description
A two-player card-driven wargame depicting the French Resistance against Nazi occupation from 1943 to 1944
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Solo and two-player modes feel like distinct games while sharing core mechanics.
- The resolution deck's probabilities dynamically change based on the board state, making gameplay interesting.
- The personas in the solo mode add replayability and unique challenges.
- The game mechanics and theme are well integrated.
- The two-player experience offers a fun cat-and-mouse bluffing element.
Cons
- The rulebook is dense and can be confusing to parse initially.
- The bot in the solo mode, while quick, lacks the nuanced cat-and-mouse feel of the two-player game.
- The rulebooks are split into two separate booklets (one for two-player, one for single-player), which can be frustrating.
Thematic elements
- Resistance movement against German occupiers
- Occupied France during World War II
Comparison games
- Robin Hood
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action Point Allowance — Players have a set number of action points to spend on various actions each turn.
- Area Control — Players take actions in different regions on the board, which have associated suits.
- card drafting — Players reveal event cards from their hand, with the highest action points determining turn order.
- Deck building — There are event decks and a resolution deck that drives gameplay, with a reshuffle card to prevent simple card counting.
- Hidden Movement / Hidden Roles — Informant pieces are double-sided and their true allegiance is hidden, and resistance units can be uncovered.
- set collection — Suits on cards match regions on the board, influencing action point costs.
- Variable player powers — The solo game features four different 'personas' that give the resistance player a special ability and an extra win condition.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is a game that came out recently from GMT Games.
- It's almost like you're playing the same game in a solo versus two-player, but you does this really cool thing, a very smart thing, I think, with those four personas.
- I really recommend it. The rule book's a little bit of uh like it's good. All the rules are there. The all the rules are there. It's just like uh it's a lot to kind of parse and at first I was like I am not going to like this game and but once we got into and played it a bit I was like oh no this is fantastic.
- I definitely recommend In the Shadows, single player or two-player. They like they both have their benefits.
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