Game Info
Year
2024
Players
2-5
Age
10+
Playtime
45 min
Complexity
1.5/5
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Description
Players work as bath house staff caring for mythical creature guests by gathering ingredients for baths completing treatments nourishing guests and cleaning pools
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Jamie, Tabletoptiktok Review at 0:03 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Enjoyable theme and gameplay
- Gems are gorgeous
- Bonus tips are great
- Creature bonuses are useful
- Bonuses can be refreshed
- Refreshes can provide more guests and options
- Changing managers provide changing effects
- Satisfying recipe fulfillment
- Overall great time
Cons
- Cover might not be eye-catching
- Troublesome guests make life miserable for adjacent guests
- Troublesome guests require multiple turns/people to clear
- Requires working together to clear troublesome creatures quickly
Thematic elements
- Running a day spa for mythic creatures
Comparison games
- 12 Rivers
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — So on your turn, you have a few different actions that you can take.
- Hand Management — You start with a hand of three with a maximum hand size of six.
- Press Your Luck — when you treat a guest with exactly what they wanted and no extras, they're going to give you a bonus tip of two gems, which is great.
- Resource Management — there's always a row of five ingredients that are available out here. And you start with a hand of three with a maximum hand size of six.
- Set Collection — If you can get them to leave nice and clean, then you get to collect them and you get points for doing so.
- Take That — when they are troublesome and they get put out into a bath they are going to make everyone's life a little bit miserable.
- Variable player powers — And you're also going to have a manager available during the game. And this manager will change when the troublesome guests get kicked out or cleared out of the spot... Because you're going to have different managers. You're going to have different troublesome creatures creating problems.
- Worker Placement — I can put my token out there. And I'm saying, 'Yeah, I'm going to treat the owl bear.' So, that means no one else gets to be their spa attendant essentially.
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Quotes (from this video)
- And if you can get them to leave nice and clean, then you get to collect them and you get points for doing so.
- So, when I do that, I get my token back and I get the bonus for this type of creature.
- So, it is cool that they can be used once, but then they can be used again when someone else treats that type of guest.
- So, that's a great way too to get more guests and get more options.
- So sometimes you have to take a little bit of kind of that altruistic move in order to help yourself for future turns but potentially help other players sooner.
- So every time we clear out a troublesome guest, we get a new manager with a new ability.
- So it's going to give you changing effects every time you play.
- But you're also, this is an individual game. It's your score that wins.
- But once I got this out and played it, I'm like, 'Oh, I love this. It's recipe fulfillment. I'm getting to run a day spa. It's so many wonderful things that I have a great time with.'
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BoardGameCo Analysis at 12:39 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I'm going to try to film three videos today if I can.
- The problem is I direct as I go. My feet are directing the shot.
- The biggest problem is I don't want to push myself to film a game earlier than I'm ready to.
- The problem is you take on too much at once and it all becomes a blur as you try to keep up with just too many too many things, too many balls that you're juggling all at the same time.
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BoardGameCo Review at 13:20 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Looks like it has enough charm to be worth diving into several times.
Cons
- Wonder if it'll be a game that sticks with me.
Thematic elements
- Baths, water
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Dominant Species is going to be reprinted from Chad's artwork by Eno Tulle and a new version from Allplay.
- The return policy straight up sucks. I'm not going to I'm not going to sugarcoat that.
- It was a surreal moment. You're like, "You mean no one's going to school? Everyone's staying home. We can't see each other anymore. We can't talk to each other. Everything is shutting down."
- Fortunately, no one was hurt in the actual um in the actual incident itself, but it definitely put the a bit of a damper on their ability to function.
- So like war is bad.
- I have learned 39 games. 39 games in 4 days.
- It's also homework.
- I think Bunny Kingdom is still ultimately the much better game.
- It's aiming to be mind management, but slightly more accessible, making it easier to dive into.
- Looks fun, accessible, looks very Citizens of the Spark/Dominion-esque, but with a lighter target audience in mind.
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The Dice Tower News at 16:39 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
none
Cons
- Hates the cover art.
- Poor production compared to previous games.
Thematic elements
- Running a bathhouse for mythical creatures
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Resource Management — Keeping the baths clean for guests.
- Set Collection — Players are collecting ingredients and completing treatments.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is the new way they're doing campaigns.
- The core box comes with a three-chapter campaign, and when you buy a campaign, it's just three chapters.
- So, it's a much more like, I guess, approachable, you know, campaign.
- Questline, which is a card drafting game set in their definitely not D&D universe.
- It sounds a little bit like Fantasy Realms.
- This is a new standalone board game set in the same world as Isle of Cats
- Your expedition to the frozen lands in the north has suddenly become a rescue mission and you must rescue as many penguins as possible before the ice melts.
- So, it's an open drafting and penguin placement board game.
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Grant Lyon News at 12:36 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- interesting tension between serving customers and cleaning baths
- cool artwork
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Serving mythical creatures
- Baths
- Recipe fulfillment
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- recipe fulfillment — This is mostly like a recipe fulfillment type of game.
- Resource Management — You have to collect these cards with different resources on them and then you will discard those resources to clean a specific customer.
- Set Collection — You have to collect these cards with different resources on them and then you will discard those resources to clean a specific customer.
- Worker Placement — Cleaning the baths uses a turn.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Sorry this video is coming a little bit late this month.
- I have been on tour with my board game comedy show.
- Almost every single show has sold out so far which is better than I could have hoped for.
- So I hope to see you at those shows as well.
- This is a cooperative party game.
- The grid is smaller.
- This is a trick-taking game at its core.
- The twist of the game, the thing that makes it interesting and different from other games, is you will have sort of a background card and a transparency colored card. And when you combine those two things, they will create a different color.
- There is worker placement. There is hand management. There's a betting and bluffing aspect to the game.
- So yeah, that is 23 games coming to retail here in the month of June.
- I have been releasing episodes of It's All Funny and Games.
- Thank you so much. I'm Grant with Grant's Game Rex.
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