Game Info
Year
2026
Players
2-4
Playtime
20 min
Complexity
0/5
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Description
A push-your-luck worker placement game where players roll dice to generate crew members for their pirate ship and manage risk to avoid going overboard
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Grant Lyon Top List at 11:13 sentiment: positive
video_pk 99386 · mention_pk 276335
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Really fun
- Combines push-your-luck dice and worker placement
- Like the push-your-luck aspect
- Like when games have multiple paths to victory
- Quick game
- Good game with zero reading
- Great for playing with someone you don't speak the same language as
- Iconography makes sense
Cons
- Think of this as a two player only game
Thematic elements
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dice Rolling — Players roll a single die at a time.
- Push Your Luck — Players roll dice with a limit, deciding whether to push their luck and roll again or stop before going over the limit and busting.
- Worker Placement — Dice rolled are assigned to various worker placement spots to take actions.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Gen Con is upon us. The largest tabletop game convention in all of North America is here.
- This video is about the 10 games I am most excited about at Gen Con.
- These are all games that you can get for the first time at Gen Con, which is why I'm excited about them and why I think you should check them out.
- One of the most underrated mechanisms in board games, I think, is the mechanism I split, you choose.
- The Game Makers is a love letter to the board game hobby.
- If you like deck building If you like card games, if you like fun, check out Flip Tunes season 2.
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Rob's Tabletop World Review at 0:44 sentiment: positive
video_pk 99168 · mention_pk 275921
Click to watch at 0:44 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Highly underrated game
- Very fun for players of all ages, including grandkids
- Beautiful components and neoprene map
- Strategic depth with multiple ways to win
- Engaging player interaction (sinking ships, battling for islands)
- Original and unique abilities
- Offers a lot of fun without being expensive
- Great two-player game
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- pirate
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Players compete to control islands by placing dice, with a win condition tied to controlling four or more islands.
- Dice Rolling — Players roll dice to perform various actions, including damaging rival ships, plundering, and controlling islands.
- Hand Management — Players can hold a die until the next turn if they have no place to put it, using it for a power later.
- Player Elimination — A win condition involves sinking a rival's ship by dealing 12 points of damage.
- Press Your Luck — Players can choose to keep rolling dice, but risk going over their goal limit, which forces them to put dice into an 'evade' area.
- Set Collection — Gathering certain dice combinations, like three of the same dice for plunder, is a key element.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Hey everybody, it's your old pal Rob.
- boy, anytime you can dice chuck and have a good time at and play a pirate game, you can count me in cuz you know it's going to be great.
- This is fantastic. This is a wonderful, wonderful game. Beautiful map, beautiful art, and just dice-chucking pirate fun.
- you don't have to spend three or four hundred dollars to have a good pirate game and have a blast.
- This is what gaming's all about and these guys get it. Something original, fun, and just plain plain fun.
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Grant Lyon Upcoming Games Preview at 23:04 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Appealing push-your-luck dice mechanic
- Easy to teach with transportable playmat
- Head-to-head tension in duels
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- dice-based push-your-luck naval combat
- sea battle and exploration on a compact play surface
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dice Placement — Place and assign dice to various play areas on a playmat.
- Head-to-head combat — Direct combat with opposing ships and island control.
- Push Your Luck — Risk-reward decisions to avoid busting and maximize outcomes.
- push-your-luck — Risk-reward decisions to avoid busting and maximize outcomes.
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Quotes (from this video)
- I love bag building because it always has that fun, exciting tension of like, I hope I get what I need.
- it's a lighter weight, you know, quicker playing game.
- Temple Twist has a table presents for days.
- thematically you are putting together like a table at the lunch cafeteria.
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