Game Info
Year
2026
Players
3-8
Age
10+
Playtime
30 min
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Description
A fast chaotic card game where players collect bananas and sabotage opponents using Action Reaction and Anytime cards that keep everyone engaged on every turn
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Grant Lyon Review at 0:02 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Very fun to say
- All ages card game
- Easy to teach
- Comes with big emotions
- Bananas will constantly be changing hands
Cons
- Bananas will be stolen all of the time
- Bananas will constantly be changing hands
Thematic elements
- Collecting bananas
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Players draw one monkey card from the deck and play one action card on their turn.
- Hand Management — Players have a hand of cards and can choose to discard their whole hand to stash a banana card.
- Set Collection — The objective is to have the most bananas by the end of the game.
- take-that — Actions involve stealing bananas from other players and playing reaction cards out of turn.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Do you want some chaos in your game nights? Then check out the little card game Bananarchy, which is very fun to say. Bananarchy.
- This is an all ages card game where you want the most bananas by the end.
- The other main thing you can do on your turn is discard your whole hand to stash a banana card and protect it.
- And you're going to want to stash your banana cards because they will be stolen all of the time.
- Anybody can play an anytime card whenever they want, even if it's not their turn.
- You can also play reaction cards out of turn, and so bananas will constantly be changing hands.
- This game is easy to teach and comes with big emotions.
- Keep your hands off my bananas.
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The Dice Tower News at 27:59 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
- Stupid theme they are leaning into.
Cons
- Chaotic and dumb.
- Gameplay sounds terrible.
- Optional turns are confusing.
- Long back-and-forth card play is draining.
Thematic elements
- bananas, anarchy
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Simultaneous Play — it sounds like you're all playing at the same time, too, which would fit with the name
- Take That — It's a take that game.
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Quotes (from this video)
- I like the idea of building out the dungeon and trying to make it all work, you know, within your pattern goal, but then also having the corridors and stuff line up, you know, so where you can make your way through the dungeon to make other goals.
- There was nothing about this that I I couldn't think of anything positive to say.
- This looks great, right?
- It manages to feel like it will be strategic and engaging and cozy.
- This is This is a bag builder where you're like you're making your own your own bag where you're upgrading dice. You're getting better sewing.
- It's the most euro, I think, of any IV Studio game.
- I like the look. I like the sort of 80s action movie post-apocalyptic thing.
- This stupid super early bird thing. You are upsetting everybody outside of a hundred people.
- That is bull.
- You've alienated all these other people because as interested as I am in this, there's no way I'm buying it right now for $100 when I know people in this very project got it for 60.
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