Party House: The Deckbuilding Game

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Card Drafting — Players can buy cards from a market using popularity or money to improve their decks.
• Deck Building — Players aim to build a better deck to gather needed cards, manage trouble, and acquire stronger abilities.
• Push Your Luck — Players draw cards and try to gain popularity and money without accumulating too much trouble, as having eight trouble results in busting.
• Set Collection — Players aim to acquire a certain number of stars to win the game, which can be gained from specific cards or events.

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• This checked every box and it did so in a non-offensive and non-impressive manner.
• Everything it does, it does well, but both things are true. I really couldn't find much to criticize here. It does what it wants to do well, but I also had nothing that wowed me.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Deck Building — It's a deck-building game. You will be deck-building a pile of guests, and each turn you're throwing a party, drawing and revealing new guests to said party.
• Push Your Luck — If you like push-your-luck games and the idea of building your own push-your-luck engine, then this one is going to absolutely hit for you.
• solo mode — There's even a really nice, simple solo mode that has almost no overhead, and it delivers the same experience of the game, but just in a single-session, quick push-your-luck deck-building masterclass.

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• I want to approach it from the perspective of just someone who likes games. In a vacuum, I wanted to see what these games brought to the hobby in and of themselves.
• And it makes for a bizarre logic puzzle with multiple layers.
• And it it's challenging, but really unusually clever in how it all somehow just works.
• Both are head-to-head puzzly rules and reality-warping two-player experiences that will leave you questioning your own sanity by the time you're done with a chapter.
• And the challenge that will sometimes make your brain melt in a little in all the right ways.
• But it's not something that you'd immediately jump to from say uh Dominion when it comes to what your expectations of what a deck-building game may be.
• Cuz at the end of the day, what Party House brings to the table is it's a lot of really, really ridiculous fun.
• If you like push-your-luck games and the idea of building your own push-your-luck engine, then this one is going to absolutely hit for you.
• I think both of these games deliver really nicely in their respective corners in the hobby, regardless of what your experience is with the IP or the themes.
• Not to mention the fact that they feel really unique and fresh in Bitewing's catalog in and of itself, while also being fresh and fun in the board game space in general.
• So, yeah, if you want to try a really weird, wacky, fun deck building game or a so clever that it hurts mind-melty two-player game, then you absolutely have to check out Party House and Baba Is You from Bitewing.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Card Drafting/Recruiting — Players spend resources (popularity and money) to recruit new cards from a display to add to their deck.
• Card Fetching — Players can use specific card abilities to search their discard pile or draw deck for specific cards.
• Card Removal (Trashing) — The 'Travel Agent' card allows players to permanently remove cards from their deck, helping to 'thin' it out.
• Card stacking — Some cards allow players to stack them on top of other cards, covering up negative effects like 'trouble' while still gaining benefits.
• Deck Building — Players start with a basic deck and recruit new cards to improve their deck over the course of the game.
• Hand Management — Players draw their entire deck into their hand at the start of their turn, requiring strategic decisions on which cards to play and when to stop drawing.
• Push Your Luck — Players draw cards and decide whether to continue drawing or stop, risking busting if they draw too many 'trouble' cards.
• Resource Management — Players manage two main currencies: popularity and money, which are used to recruit new guests.
• Set Collection — Players aim to collect specific combinations of cards (like VIPs or old friends) to meet game objectives or win conditions.

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• The difference between money and popularity is at the end of your turn, popularity will not carry over into your next turn, but money will stay in your personal supply until you choose to spend it.
• And as soon as a player ends their party with enough stars to win the game, then the game immediately ends and they win.
• This is the trash mechanism. The way for you to thin your decks.
• It's like positive hot potato.

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• 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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