Spirit Train: The Final Journey

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Co-op — Turn it co-op or solo
• Fifth player — expansion that adds a fifth player.
• legacy — It's actually like a leg- It's a whole legacy thing we got in there with eight campaigns.
• solo mode — super cool expansion that adds a solo mode

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• Final grade, by the way, Spirit Train, the final journey.
• It feels It feels rock solid, you know?
• And I'm in. But, then, it's kind of just a rug pull on that final pledge of just, "Oh, yeah, there's also But, by the way, the feature pledge We haven't mentioned this expansion at all, but there's a super cool expansion that adds a fifth player."
• Easily higher if that were just sold better.
• Spirit Train, the final journey, go with a B.
• I'm going to go B minus.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• action selection — Players select actions by placing rooms into their train.
• Area Control — The 'fight against death' involves contributing strength to target specific spots.
• Combat — A 'prank war' mechanic and a 'fight against death' are present.
• Deck Building — Rooms are drafted and cycled, suggesting a deck-building element.
• Hand Management — Players manage cards (spirits) in their hand.
• Player Elimination — Spirits sent to 'death' are not available for the next turn and can be lost if not managed.
• Push Your Luck — Events can trigger negative effects, and players can spend energy to ignore them.
• Set Collection — Players collect stones and wisps for scoring.
• Simultaneous action selection — Players plan their rooms simultaneously behind screens.
• Worker Placement — Rooms placed in the train provide action spots.

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• I don't have any spirit interactions.
• I don't have any mamora.
• The holiday is next.
• Oh, you would get two wisps instead of one.
• I don't have any recruitment.
• The winner will get the token and the plus, I think it was.
• We lost our memories facing death apparently.
• You're miserable, Steve.
• The prank war is a little bit way to break up the kind of um monotony of Eurogamey aspects to it.
• I also played with this one yesterday.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• action selection — Rooms provide base actions, and activating spirits provides additional actions.
• Card Drafting — Players draft cards behind a hidden wall and slide them into their train.
• cooperative play — Mentioned as a mode available through expansions, where conductors and spirits must work together to send death away.
• Engine Building — Upgrading spirit cards with memorial blocks to enhance and expand available actions and gain energy.
• Modular Board — The train board is built with different room tiles.
• Push Your Luck — Implied by facing 'death' at the end of cycles and potentially suffering consequences.
• Resource Management — Collecting and spending memory shards and tickets.
• Set Collection — Collecting spirit tokens to earn points and collecting memory shards to awaken a spirit's core memory.
• Solo Play — Mentioned as a mode available through expansions.
• Tile Placement — Placing room tiles into the train, described as a 'tetronimo puzzle'.
• Variable player powers — Spirits have moods that affect their activity, and happy spirits are more active.
• Worker Placement — Activating spirits by strategically placing them into their favorite rooms to maximize actions.

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• This is an awesome, beautiful, beautiful looking Kickstarter that I am so excited to check out.
• No AI art. This beautifully handdrawn art by Marissusa Gord. I This is stunning. It's so amazing.
• This is 100% going to give you Kickstarter FOMO if you do not back this version.
• So, there's a little bit of a tetronal puzzle here.
• There's just a ton of content in the base game alone.
• All of that stuff for $59 bucks... That is a phenomenal price.
• $100 for that deluxe uh conductor's edition version. I think this also a phenomenal price for how much more cardboard you're getting there.
• So, how do you actually play this game? You're going to interact with the spirits on your train, help the spirits cross over, and you're going to collect spirit tokens.
• They thought of everything on this.
• It looks like there's going to be some player interaction. That's very cool.
• Oh, that's cool. You can upgrade your cards.
• Conductors and their spirits must work together to send death away or collectively suffer the consequences.
• So, that's actually uh beneficial to get it on Kickstarter than wait for retail.
• It does seem like it's going to be a relatively good game. We've got combos, we have got upgrading of cards, we have got puzzle, uh, and then we've got, of course, an amazing table presents.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• action selection — The rooms placed on the train determine the types of actions players can take.
• Card Drafting — Players draw spirit cards and can choose from a face-up display or the deck.
• Push Your Luck — The game involves managing spirit mood and potentially facing penalties for losing spirits or failing challenges.
• Resource Management — Players manage tickets, memory shards, and train energy.
• Set Collection — Collecting spirit stones is a key objective for scoring points.
• Variable player powers — Each spirit has unique actions and favorite rooms, influencing strategy.
• Worker Placement — Spirits are placed into rooms on the train to activate their actions, including bonus actions.

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Quotes (from this video)

• Spirit Train is basically a game about being a train conductor in the spirit realm.
• You're trying to guide souls on your train to the afterlife.
• The mood of our spirits because at the end of the game, their overall mood is going to determine the score multipliers.
• This is the only action that is not optional.
• Players who house a spirit this turn gain a memorial block for free.
• It's a race because whoever can get here first gets first pick at these different bonuses.
• The game has a whole deck of these spirit cards, and they are all unique.
• It's just so funny, but also not funny at the same time.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• action selection — Players choose from various actions provided by train compartments and activated passengers.
• Area Movement — Trains move along a track with different locations.
• Combat/Challenge Resolution — Players collectively commit spirits to face ethereal challenges, with bonuses for the most strength contributed.
• Engine Building — Memorial blocks are used to unlock more actions and give the train more energy.
• Hand Management — Players draw spirits into their hand.
• Movement — Trains move along a track based on specific icons.
• Player order determination — Turn order is determined by who has the fewest compartments in their train.
• push-your-luck — The game includes mechanics where players might lose mood for certain interactions or actions.
• Set Collection — Players collect tickets, memory shards, and memorial blocks.
• Tableau Building — Players build a tableau with compartments of their spirit train.
• Take That — Prank wars are a mechanic, suggesting direct negative interaction between players.

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Quotes (from this video)

• Now I need to see a nice little harmony. That was nice.
• We are the brothers Murf and it's time to return to the game house for some spirit training.
• Players are running competing spirit trains as they try to help spirits cross over, maintaining happiness and fulfillment, dealing with everchanging events and managing your train and its passengers.
• It's from Sweater Bear Games who are sponsoring this playthrough. Big shouts out to them.
• I'm upset. Just throwing it out there. Sit. It's fair to be upset. They're really cute.
• The vibes are immaculate on my turn.
• I was ticket poor.
• This is going to be our last round of this cycle.
• The theme's a dream.
• My people are so miserable.
• I do get two mood. One, two. Okay.
• This is the last round, y'all.

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