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Year
2026
Players
1-4
Age
12+
Playtime
45 min
Complexity
1.5/5
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Description
A cooperative deck-building game where brave heroes battle waves of enemies and gain power to survive
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TheGameBoyGeek - Hi Quality Hi Energy Board Game Reviews Review at 0:09 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Multi-use cards offer depth and agency.
- Communal XP keeps players talking and working together.
- Accelerated deck building allows immediate use of new cards.
- Scrolling mechanic simulates video game feel and allows tactical movement.
- Ability to help others on their turn keeps players engaged.
- Excellent hand management with unplayed cards staying in hand.
- Impressive components in the deluxe edition.
- Unlocking content through achievements is rewarding.
- Evolutions are powerful and persistent across games.
- Evolving content provides campaign-like progression without campaign complexity.
- The game is accessible to newcomers despite its depth.
Cons
- Foiled boss tiles can be harder to see in certain lighting.
- Envisioning mirrored patterns can be spatially challenging for some players.
Thematic elements
- surviving vampires
- forest
Comparison games
- Mechs vs. Minions
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Achievements — Teams work to accomplish achievements, which unlock rewards like new characters, weapons, and evolutions.
- Combat — Players attack enemies and bosses, with some enemies having armor that requires multiple hits to remove.
- Communal experience points — Experience points are communal, encouraging players to talk and work together on who should benefit from them to trigger combos.
- Deck Building — Players build their decks over the course of the game by acquiring new weapons and characters.
- evolutions — Unlocked evolutions stay out from game to game and provide powerful abilities, often requiring specific cards and treasure chests to acquire.
- Health and damage tracking — Player mats have trackers for armor and max health, and players lose if their damage equals their max health.
- Leveling up — Players can level up during the game, often by spending communal experience points to buy new cards.
- Multi-Use Cards — Cards can be used for an instant effect or a persistent effect, requiring players to decide the best use for each card each turn.
- Scrolling — Cards allow players to scroll rows or columns, moving enemies or bringing new light sources onto the board, simulating a 2D video game feel.
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Quotes (from this video)
- I'm in that last camp and we'll talk about all three of those people and who's different things to think about if you're in one of those three camps a little bit later.
- It just gives a really good thought process and agency to the game.
- This game is a good hand management game because you can play as many cards as you want, which I love.
- The unlocking the content, I love that you're unlocking it from achievements.
- This is not necessarily a campaign game cuz usually campaigns have different scenarios and different setups and they they layer on heavy new mechanisms each time. This kind of takes the best of them what what I like about campaign games, which is it evolves, but it takes out all of the burden of learning a new game every every scenario.
- If that's you, this does not have that problem because everyone has their hands of cards, everyone's making their own decision, you're working together, but no one can take over the game.
- The Game Boy Geek breaking down barriers, growing relationships through board games, and helping you find that one you love.
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Man vs Meeple Review at 0:04 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Faithful adaptation of the digital game
- Satisfying card synergies and combos
- Engaging cooperative experience
- Lots of content unlocked through achievements
- Attention to detail in components and design
- Fun and smart puzzle-like gameplay
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Survive as long as you can
Comparison games
- Vampire Survivors (video game)
- Metal Gear Solid
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action Points — Players can use cards for instant abilities, persistent effects, or movement.
- Area Control — Players manage enemy spawns by strategically positioning themselves at the end of their turn.
- cooperative play — The game is cooperative for up to four players, requiring teamwork to overcome challenges.
- Deck Building — Players build their deck with weapon cards, passive ability cards, and movement cards, shuffling and drawing from it repeatedly.
- legacy elements — Envelopes are unlocked by completing achievements, adding new content like characters, weapons, and items to the game.
- Set Collection — Players collect cards by defeating enemies, opening treasure chests, or by spending experience tokens.
- Tile Placement — Light sources are placed on the board and can be manipulated by scrolling to reveal benefits or clear enemies.
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Quotes (from this video)
- It is no secret that I am a big fan of the Vampire Survivors video game. It sucked so much of my life away.
- The goal is to survive as long as you can.
- The premise is simple. You're going to survive as long as you can.
- It is a deck building game. You're going to be adding these cards into your hand.
- The way that you're comboing those weapons, the way that you're using multiple weapons at once to just kill all the enemies on the screen.
- All in all, this does feel like a love letter to Vampire Survivors.
- If you are a fan of Vampire Survivors, you have to check this game out.
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Video dUw1tnQOrFw
BoardGameCo Other at 23:09 sentiment: other
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Interested but Hesitant
Pros
- Intriguing concept as a board game adaptation.
- Art captures the video game's aesthetic.
- Designed by a trusted designer.
Cons
- Uncertainty about whether the core gameplay loop can be successfully translated.
- Hesitant about the final product's delivery.
Thematic elements
- Surviving hordes of enemies
Comparison games
- Vampire Survivors (video game)
- Metal Gear Solid
- Tonations of Rome
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Power-ups — Implied by the nature of the video game.
- Survival — Focuses on surviving against overwhelming odds.
- Wave Survival — Implied by the nature of the video game.
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- I am CMO of Gamefound, but I do this series on Gamefound because it is the easiest one.
- This is more Slay the Spire content. More things to mix in and new characters to dive into and new ways to kind of play through the progression of it all.
- Brass Pittsburgh from Roxley being well, the number one game of all time.
- The Witcher Legacy brings the world of The Witcher Old World, but it brings it to you in a legacy game.
- But as an experience, it still is the best RPG board game I've played in the sense that giving me that sense of a character development, making choices, exploring the narrative while diving into combat, and having different uh diverse branching pathways as far as the mechanical elements of what you're doing in the game.
- So, like the earlier stuff, I'm going to try to make you uh if you're excited about finding all the stuff about Lands of Evershade or who knows what, Slay of the Spire, those will all be later in the video.
- The art style, I love the the the components, obviously, Awaken Realms, the general idea of like, you know, this eventual climactic boss fight. I like all that.
- The sheer amount of content both excites and scares me for this one.
- So color me both very interested and very hesitant all at the same time.
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- We're going to make another Marvel movie.
- It's like it's like it's like it's like I forget who he mentioned.
- And then the response, if I'm remembering correctly, from the person that started the thread said, 'Well, you would have gotten a deal. I'm looking for like $1,000 here.'
- It's a legacy game. I did pick up u followers in Dallas last weekend.
- I'm an agent of chaos.
- You did it wrong. Everybody hates you.
- I just can't trust anybody.
- Everybody hates you. And uh you probably do everybody a real big favor if you just took yourself outside and shot yourself.
- Yeah, 1984, this might have been one of the greatest years of movies. Terminator, Amadeus, Indiana Jones, Temple of Doom, Ghostbusters, Nightmare on Mr. This is Spinal Tap, Gremlins, Beverly Hills Cop, Karate Kid, 16 Candles, Police Academy. It's just banger after banger after banger.
- We don't make movies anymore because and or you don't make movies that are in a movie theater anymore, you know?
- It's just different now, right? People, we just don't make movies anymore because and or you don't make movies that are in a movie theater anymore, you know?
- We could spend a billion dollar something something interesting and unique and original, but that would be risky, so we're just going to make another Marvel movie.
- And then they say, 'Archer, I think he's in love with you.'
- He played an absolute great one episode character in Archer
- It's pretty good. Yeah, I liked it.
- And then they left it open, right? They left it open with a little tease like, 'Oh, you know, he might not be getting away with this.' And then and then they never went back.
- It's just so obscene. I can't even fit it on the any shelf that I have.
- Everybody hates you. You did it wrong. Everybody hates you. And you probably do everybody a real big favor if you just took yourself outside and shot yourself.
- I'm so jaded that I just can't trust anybody.
- It's just banger after banger after banger.
- It's like, you know, these, you know, movies like today's movies suck or whatever. I I don't I don't buy into that.
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Drive Thru Games Review at 41:17 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
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Mechanics unknown.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Here we've also got the good old games Doom 1 Doom 2.
- Yeah, so you know, it's Doom.
- It works.
- And while we're talking about it, same idea here with Heretic and Hexen.
- this is just Doom fantasy.
- And then here we have System Shock 2.
- But, it's it's a remaster of System Shock 2, so it's a little bit updated.
- But it runs good just like basically right out of the box there.
- And this is last one this Pico-8.
- So, what Pico-8 is, it's almost like it's own little console.
- But then, you get like hundreds and hundreds of games for free.
- these little like Gameboy S games.
- This top screen runs at 120 Hz.
- So, if I'm just playing like, you know, retro games or something, I don't worry about it.
- And if I'm especially if I'm playing the dual screen games here, then if you set this to 120, this bottom screen is like a little bit weird cuz the screen technically can't go to 120, but it kind of fakes it out.
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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 1:45
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- What a load off my mind. Holy cow.
- So tasty.
- Don't hit me with a good time.
- Get a ticket for the flea market.
- You got a golden ticket.
- That's the one hour I ask.
- You know what? It might be have to be Friday night then because Friday the only thing I've got going
- I know, but who do I kick out?
- It is a good movie. It is a good movie.
- My favorite John Cusack movie is um Eight Men Out.
- Say anything. Hold hold hold the hold the the Ben's iconic man.
- Are you going to be able to play Station Fall next week?
- That'll be fine for me.
- I got to go.
- You could do a 900 p.m. Saturday night.
- I have to be on this crazy secure line. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Whatever.
- Not looking forward to it. But maybe I don't know get cancelceled, but it might. But I'm just I'm just I'm leaving it open in case they do need me.
- The thing is Wednesday night is usually there's no momentum to play anything big, you know, because you're kind of like, you know, I mean, the momentum is not there yet.
- If you don't get knocked out, it's an evening. It takes a long time.
- My head
- Oh, my god.
- That's a seven out of 10.
- You need to get some sunglasses for that one. That's a CSI Miami joke.
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- Vampire Survivors live on Kickstarter right now. $361,000.
- Back Vampire Survivors the board game.
- It's great. It's my game of the year.
- Hero Forge, if you're watching, I'd love to make another video for you. Send me some more credits.
- That [__] is addictive. Oh my god.
- Gnome Hollow is a delightful game. Whether you're an avid board game player or new to board games, this game is very suitable for both. The gameplay is smooth. You have many action to choose from, but but it still remains clear. We really like the theme. Gnomes always do well. The ring markers are magnetic, which is super handy. That makes them easy to keep on your player board.
- Hughes and Q's is quite good.
- I felt like it's one of those games unfortunately after I play it once I was just like well and I never need to play this again.
- A+ for style points. Super cute theme and artwork. I give this a low rating based on the fact that I myself just can't really play it. The spatial aspect of the rings with all their twists makes it hard for me to plan my turns and you can't get around the spatial aspect and to aim for a win through other methods.
- People love to be harsh.
- Tile laying that's been done before. The tile laying is really dull. Even though there are seven tiles to choose from, there are ever only one or two viable choices because you want to close the path as soon as possible. There is nothing new to see here. Move along.
- I love people and I hate them at the same time.
- Well, that's harsh.
- We're in the happiest timeline right now.
- There's no like RPG stuff there really.
- I think that Morborg is just a garbage thing. It's just like it's it's it is it is it was a flash in the pan.
- Yeah. And it's just like we got we're going to just have all these Borg things and I just like what are we doing?
- I just need this remote control and this chair and that's all I need.
- The Color from Outer Space. It showed up.
- Well, what you need to go see or stream is um Renfield with Nick Cage.
- That's just over the top ridiculous. It's It's amazing.
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- in my opinion is the better game between Champions of Midgard and Reavers of Midgard.
- I have a hand in the creation of you know, I mean, it's close to 100 games, you know, between all the stuff that TMG published and all the stuff Grey Fox has published.
- It's just it's it's they're they're trying to Like what's it cost for a WrestleMania?
- I literally thought I was going to have to throw down.
- When I die, it's going to be because I was sarcastic or mouthy to the wrong person.
- My favorite By the way, it is Jack Nicholson's birthday today. He is 89 years old.
- And then, you know, you get to the end of the movie, it's like, 'Oh my god, I have watched something.'
- You can’t handle the truth.
- We're going to use you as the We're going to use you as the decoy.
- The thing that always gets me is when Gandalf comes over the mountain.
- This is the best image I could get for this scene.
- I know, but I I feel like it's like I I'm I'm stumbling upon the truth of the situation.
- What I think this this what this administration is doing has nothing to do with anything.
- I mean, it's like, you know, my kids will never grow up in a world where they can't just turn on whatever they want to watch at any given time.
- It's like, you know, we had landlines. We had...
- Don't don't trust it. 100% don't trust it.
- Do you think that's like the entirety of all the heavy gamers in the country?
- For yeah, 37,000 Nobody's going to and and how many of those are they're never going to play it?
- It's like you know, because they And that and it's like they'll cut they'll do super short cuts to commercial. And when they come back, they'll just recap the last minute or so that you've watched.
- I mean, was that show actually legit, though?
- He's like, "What is this? Beethoven's piano? I'll give you $100."
- So, the only reason I actually And this is I'm I'm probably wrong here, but I all I always feel like the Antiques Roadshow is more real because of the fact that it's like what Cuz wasn't it on PBS to start with?
- I mean, once we whitebeard out and go away, like I think I think physical media stuff like that will not be
- It's like, okay, you buy it's like you pay you pay $25 for a pack of these like digital cards. They give you then it's like, oh, and it's completely random. Yeah, I'm sure it's [ __ ] random.
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