Digital Detox

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Set Collection — Players try to get rid of cards by matching categories or using events.
• Take That — Players can give cards to opponents through actions like asking for specific categories.

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Quotes (from this video)

• This is a six small box game review roundup. Gen Con edition.
• If a game is in a six small box game review, it usually means it's not likely to get above a 3.5 out of five.
• I think for me, I don't like this at all. I thought it was terrible. But again, caveat, I'm not the intended audience.
• The actual puzzle, both solo and cooperative, is pretty fun.
• The rule book in my opinion is terrible.
• I think this is a great icebreaker, a great gateway game, uh, good for kids and families as well.
• It's the kind of game that was good for two or three plays. And by the time I was playing it the fourth time, I was already I I felt I had done everything I wanted to from the game.
• The biggest critique I have is it does feel very luck dependent. It doesn't feel like there's a ton of strategy.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• card shedding — Sounds like a shedding game where you stick other people with memes and cat videos.
• Take That — A little take that where you're sticking other people with memes and cat videos.

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Quotes (from this video)

• He ran the GameCabinet, which I was showing you a shot of here. And this is what I looked for when I first started playing the new modern games.
• So, Osprey Games, you might think, oh, they only board games? No, they used to and still do a bunch of war game or war books.
• But now the original people Chris Badell and Paul Bender have it back along with the Sentinels of the Multiverse IP.
• It's from the two people that invented that, Homestar Runner.
• Companies Companies are now realizing that they're going to take every popular video game and turn them into board games because it's working.
• So, I'm assuming it's a lot stronger now. It wasn't one of their earliest if not technically the first one and I'm sure by now they've developed it quite a bit.
• If you don't know what Teburu is, it is the big giant board.
• If you don't know what Mark Rosewater is, if you're in the board game world, but if you are a Magic the Gathering player, you know who he is because he is probably the most important person in Magic the Gathering history, even more so than the designer Richard Garfield.
• If you took 28 years to make a little 133 card card game, it's one of two things. You suck at it, right, and you should never do it, or your game is you you put in 3 minutes a week.
• The stretchiest of stretches.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• card shedding — Players try to be the first or last to get rid of all their cards, representing clearing apps from a phone.

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Quotes (from this video)

• This game is a very 'cozy' sticker book.
• It's a relaxing experience that you can just zone out with.
• It's like a sticker version of pattern building or tile placement.
• It's got a very charming theme of rescuing cats.
• It's a very positive game about helping animals.
• The artwork is absolutely beautiful.
• It's a very calm and relaxing game.
• It's very satisfying to build out your forest.

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