Game Info
Year
2026
Players
2-6
Age
8+
Playtime
30 min
Complexity
1.8/5
Collection
Your Tier
Loading…
Mechanic profile
Not enough video data yet
Vibe profile
Not enough video data yet
Description
Players control iconic kaiju characters from the Godzilla franchise including Godzilla King Ghidorah Hedorah Rodan Mothra and Mechagodzilla competing to become the definitive King of Tokyo through dice rolling and strategic tableau building with evolution cards
Featured Videos
Ask a Rules Question
Images
GID0453844.jpg
GID0453844_thumb.jpg
All mentions
Browse transcript mentions, sentiments, pros/cons, mechanics, topics, quotes, and references.
Total mentions: 6
This page: 6
Sentiment:
pos 4 ·
mix 0 ·
neu 0 ·
neg 0
Showing 1–6 of 6
Video DspWTi6aLkA
Grant Lyon Review at 0:10 sentiment: positive
video_pk 99466 · mention_pk 276565
Click to watch at 0:10 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Great dice board game that has gotten a lot of people into board games
- New version is great
- Can play as Godzilla and other monsters
- Event cards are fun and keep the game chaotic
- Evolution decks provide awesome abilities and powers
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Kaiju battle in Tokyo
Comparison games
- King of Tokyo
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — You can buy upgrade cards with lightning symbols.
- Dice Rolling — It's a Yahtzee style dice game where you roll your dice up to three times and then apply their effects.
- event cards — When an event card comes out, it affects every monster in the game.
- Player Elimination — You play until one person gets 20 points or until you're the last monster standing.
- Set Collection — Symbols on the dice get you points.
- Variable player powers — Each monster has an evolution deck with new cards and awesome abilities and powers.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- King of Tokyo is a great dice board game
- It's called King of Tokyo Godzilla.
- I love the event cards in particular because they are constantly throwing wrenches into the game and forcing you to change your plans.
- It's chaotic, but it's also a lot of fun.
References (from this video)
No references stored for this video.
Video lr8HlDXur_k
Before You Play Rules Teach at 0:05 sentiment: positive
video_pk 99171 · mention_pk 275927
Click to watch at 0:05 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Fast-paced gameplay (30 minutes)
- Engaging dice rolling and combat mechanics
- Strategic depth through power card combinations
- High player interaction
- Thematic integration with Kaiju and Tokyo setting
Cons
- Can be punishing if you stay in Tokyo too long
- The 'smash' mechanic can lead to quick eliminations
Thematic elements
- Kaiju battling to control Tokyo
- Tokyo
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Controlling Tokyo grants victory points and makes a player a target.
- Card Drafting — A display of three power cards is available, and players can purchase them.
- Dice Rolling — Players roll up to three times, keeping desired dice and rerolling others.
- Hand Management — Managing purchased power cards with ongoing or discard abilities.
- Player Elimination — Players are eliminated when their health reaches zero.
- Press Your Luck — Deciding when to stop rolling dice, with the risk of losing progress or hitting bad outcomes.
- Set Collection — Collecting sets of dice faces (e.g., three of a kind) to score points or gain resources.
- Variable player powers — Implicitly present through different Kaiju characters and explicitly mentioned with the optional evolution cards.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is a dice rolling and monster battling game for two to six players that plays in about 30 minutes in which over the course of the game, players are going to be attacking each other.
- Tokyo City is sort of a high-risk, highreward location because the other downside to being there is that you are not allowed to heal via the heal symbols whenever you roll them.
- The game is really about purchasing these cards and finding various combinations that really change up your strategy on your turn outside of just rolling these dice.
- Monsters who are not in the same location as you, whether that's Tokyo or not in Tokyo, lose one health whenever you buy a power card, including this one.
- I want all of them. Every power sounds strong.
- Michael wants elimination victory.
- I'm trying to survive. I'm trying to keep us both alive cuz I We both need to help out each other here.
- You need to roll one smash with six 18 dice roll.
- Naveen is going to win.
- Michael was so hearts and smashes and he was doing it to both of us no matter where.
- Michael, you win the star for that.
References (from this video)
No references stored for this video.
Video J5Kw8JDxCPk
The Dice Tower Discussion at 12:40 sentiment: positive
video_pk 92850 · mention_pk 249700
Click to watch at 12:40 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
- Great breath of fresh air
- Great theming
- Really cool
- Best version since I played
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Godzilla
Comparison games
- King of Tokyo
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- And then Wild Blooms, a game in which you have these flowers that you're collecting. A nice a nice game. Uh you collect a flower, and it activates everybody else. Interesting ideas in it, seven out of 10.
- Uh Morty Morty, which is nominated for the Spiel des Jahres. And at this point, you know if it's won or not. I don't know if it's won or not. But at the we didn't like it at all. I gave it a five out of 10.
- And then King of Tokyo Godzilla, what a great breath of fresh air, great themeing, really cool. I like King of Tokyo anyway. This is the best version since I played, a nine out of 10.
- Hey folks, thanks for watching another one of our videos. If you like our videos, if you like our channel, if you would love to game with us at one of our conventions, check out Dice Tower Cruise, Dice Tower East, and Dice Tower West.
- False Logic Puzzles by Norman D. Willis. I haven't read a good book in a while, and I'm afraid that trend is going to continue here.
References (from this video)
No references stored for this video.
Video 8COSIKVjfiM
The Dice Tower Other at 11:10
video_pk 80730 · mention_pk 197602
Click to watch at 11:10 · YouTube ↗
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is not a you know, 4D camera, but if you could feel the heat right now, it is hot.
- This looks like the setting of a movie about to go wrong.
- I bet you their games aren't so great.
- Small little place, but with some pretty Ooh, I see some cool games in there.
- Wow, there's a lot of really cool stuff here. This is a pretty neat store here. Pretty small. Some good stuff.
- So so all of this we we keep changing except that the match over there.
- This is the first mall I've been to that has a church in it.
- Found another mass market store, and this one has some actual decent games in it.
- Well, it's kind of what I've always dreamed of.
- This is lunch!
- So, you can see lots of games. You can see they're setting up a lot of different games. Here's a whole pile here. This is going to look fantastic once it is all set up.
- I hate werewolves.
- This is going to look fantastic once it is all set up.
- The library is probably or that is where you go buy games is probably set up.
- Isn't all the volunteers, there's a bunch of them.
References (from this video)
No references stored for this video.
Video Wedusl6NmOY
The Dice Tower Event Coverage at 3:39
video_pk 80700 · mention_pk 197360
Click to watch at 3:39 · YouTube ↗
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Hey everybody, Tom Vasel here and we are going to the opening day of a board convention here in the Philippines and this is the first day.
- So, the game buying area is finished.
- Here's one of these from Table Toys, one of the Spiel des Jahres nominees.
- And here's the big stage where this morning's They'll have a presentation this morning.
- This is the view from the stage. You can see kind of the whole thing. They're expecting 20,000 guests, at least 10,000, 15,000. It's going to be a packed thing.
- The energy here is pretty high.
- The ultimate play for fun, board card game.
- I just think it's kind of neat, you know, you have all this and then you can just go outside and see sort of a jungle-esque nature here.
- It's 9:30, the convention really opens at 10:00.
- We did our bingo game, our Metro Bingo, which was a lot of fun.
- The line is almost all the way out the door.
- But this is not bad for the convention for people to buy this many games.
- Well, that was a long day.
- I had a good first day. A great time, a lot of people.
- I saw tons of games being played and bought. It was a really great time.
- Thank you everybody for joining me. We'll come back to you for more. There's still three more days of the convention to go.
References (from this video)
No references stored for this video.
Video 3gK74H68yxg
The Dice Tower Review at 0:17 sentiment: positive
video_pk 79950 · mention_pk 193602
Click to watch at 0:17 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Incredibly popular at Dice Tower East
- Appealing stylized art and components, especially for Godzilla fans
- Powers included greatly differentiate monsters and are thematic
- Event cards are a neat concept that add interesting dynamics
- Player elimination is not a problem due to the game's length
- Encourages more direct player interaction and attacking
- Self-contained and works well
- Plays tremendously well with six players
- Fantastic version of King of Tokyo
Cons
- Wooden dice were worn from heavy play, suggesting plastic might have been more durable
- Wish they used plastic dice
Thematic elements
- Giant monsters fighting
- Tokyo
Comparison games
- King of Tokyo
- King of New York
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — Players choose which dice to re-roll and which to keep after the initial roll.
- Area Control (Tokyo) — Being in Tokyo grants victory points at the start of your turn and affects how attacks work (hitting everyone outside Tokyo). Players can retreat into Tokyo.
- card drafting/buying — Players spend energy to buy power cards from a face-up display, which grant special abilities or effects.
- Dice Rolling — Players roll dice with different symbols and can re-roll some dice twice. The dice results determine actions like gaining points, healing, gaining energy, or attacking.
- event cards — Special cards that enter play and affect all players, requiring a decision to deal with them.
- Player Elimination — Players are eliminated if their health reaches zero.
- Resource Management (Energy) — Energy is used to buy cards and sometimes to interact with event cards.
- Set Collection — Rolling sets of dice symbols (e.g., three 1s, 2s, or 3s) grants points.
- Variable player powers — Each monster has unique evolution cards that grant special abilities, making them feel distinct.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is my favorite version of King of Tokyo, and I've played a lot of my play King of Tokyo, King of New York, the cooperative game.
- This is a nine out of 10 for me. I think this version is fantastic.
- If you know how to play Yahtzee, you'll like this.
References (from this video)
No references stored for this video.
Transcript Navigation
Showing 1–6 of 6