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Year
2025
Players
1-6
Age
16+
Playtime
120 min
Complexity
3/5
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Description
A meta worker-placement game about running a board game publishing company
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Rahdo Runs Through Review at 1:13
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Making board games
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Worker Placement — Players place workers on action spaces to gain resources or perform actions.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Hey everybody. Today Roto runs through Tabletop Inc. Crowdfunding Revolution expansion.
- This is Crowdfunding Revolution. Now, this game plays 1 to six and takes about an hour to play and is a worker placement game about making board games.
- This is a thoughtful expansion. I was so surprised and delighted by how woven in to the game this expansion is.
- The crowdfunding is dynamite. Just totally working that in. not playing without it anytime I pull out tabletop ink.
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Meeple University Top 10 List at 7:04 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Continuous worker placement
- Gaining resources with every placement
- Multiple paths to victory
- Ability to recruit staff to make personal worker placement spots
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Manufacturing board games
Comparison games
- Viticulture
- Viticulture: Taut
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Resource Management — Constantly gaining little bits of resources every time you take some other action.
- Set Collection — You have to get the resources make the games publish the games get the awards.
- Worker Placement — This is a worker placement and retrieval game as in you your turn is either placing or retrieving everything.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- As usual, we're going to share you games that we played in June 2025, the first time we played. So, not necessarily new games.
- It's all our opinion.
- All the new to us games for June.
- So, we are going to alternatively share from the number five to number one.
- Very aggressive, very hatedraft induced, but it's really great game.
- This is a really clever market uh economic type of game.
- It's really satisfying when you upgrade things when you try to all right what do we do first?
- This is the new pandemic system game set in the Lord of the Rings universe.
- Pleasantly surprising was how was the differences between this and Pandemic and how it felt like a very different game to Pandemic.
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The Dice Tower Analysis at 3:57 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Meeples are making games
Cons
- Bad iconography
- Doesn't even look good
Thematic elements
- Making board games
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Drafting — Implied by the process of game creation.
- Worker Placement — Implied by 'Meeples are making games'.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Hey everybody, I'm Tom Vasel and welcome to look back, a series where I go through and take a look at the reviews that I did last year this time and 5 years ago and 10 years ago and 20 years ago and tell you what I think about them now.
- So those are the reviews I did 1, 5, 10, and 20 years ago.
- Thanks for watching. I'm Tom Vasel. We'll see you next time.
- Hey. Uh thanks for watching another video here on The Dice Tower. Uh we really appreciate you stopping by and checking our things out.
- And hey, if you really like what we're doing here at The Dice Tower, then there are different ways to support The Dice Tower. One of those ways is through Patreon.
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Mele University Game Preview at 1:14 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Base game described as fun and tactical
- Expansions add more tactical options and benefits
- Crowdfunding Revolution expansion adds marketing mechanics and depth
- Self-aware, industry-satire tone
- Solid strategic gameplay with humorous industry references
- Delightful board gaming puns
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- publishing board games, crowdfunding, conventions, and awards
- the 30th century Earth where rival publishers duke it out to release board games
- satirical, self-aware meta-narrative about the board game industry
Comparison games
- historic wood grain patterns of the 18th century gaming tables legacy
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- awards and ribbons — Gain awards and place them on an award card; rosette ribbons and golden pair tokens can yield end-game points.
- box design customization — Choose a box lid design; your game is published when you publish.
- contract fulfillment — Fulfill contracts as part of publishing games.
- crowdfunding — Campaigns to enhance published games; immediate points and marketing tokens awarded.
- Engine Building — Engine building actions to gain bonuses and chain effects.
- Hiring and upgrading — Hire specialists, workers, or freelancers to gain bonuses and upgrade employees.
- marketing tokens — Marketing tokens upgrade employees and can substitute for resources; spending tokens grants bonuses.
- prediction points — Make predictions about opponents' future actions to earn points.
- publishing trio combo — Publish games by combining boxes, components, and mechanisms.
- Resource Management — Collect resources like inspiration, coins, time tokens, play test and research.
- stall at conventions — Submit games to conventions for immediate bonuses and engine-building actions.
- stretch goals (joke) — Stretch goals referenced humorously, including life-size rewards.
- time tracker — Advance the time tracker when resting or when no more workers; collect bonuses from the track.
- Worker Placement — Place a mu into an action space to take an action, one mu at a time; some actions are free, others cost but yield better bonuses.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Tabletop Inc. is brilliantly self-aware.
- This is the new and upcoming expansion of Tabletop Inc., a next level expansion where publishing a game is no longer enough. Now you have to sell it, hype it, and maybe cry a little on camera to really make it big.
- The crowdfunding revolution expansion really cranks up the strategy and thematic immersion.
- It's a love letter, too, and a cheeky satire of the board game industry.
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Brains On Games Discussion at 1:36
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Array
- Array
- Board game publishing, game design, and industry parodies
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- A meta-board-game industry world where players run a table-top game company, crafting boxes, components, and mechanisms to publish games and earn awards.
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- positive
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
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Quotes (from this video)
- The components are bananas.
- The parody element is great. The theme is really good, too.
- Beakize was the one that stood out for me, but there's a ton of fun parody in the box.
- There's lots of actions that you can take in order to publish these games.
- This is a game that's a table hog, I would say.
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