Cosmic Cow Collectors - Playthrough. Game about us aliens, abducting cows from planets. Moo👽🛸🐄

imagine you are alien abducting cows all over the universe in Cosmic collectors this game plays two to four players by the testable games and was designed by Reuben Hernandez centene and this is the Prototype that you've seen although it's looking already very good and with all the aliens things at the back of the boxy van yes so this is uh part of our playthrough series and we're going to show you how it plays and yes it is one of the more unusual themes I would suggest we've got uh we are aliens here we are little uh alien pieces and we've we've obviously encountered some cows from the delicious I'm not necessarily for you know consumable cows it could be for maybe they've got a grass problem on the planet yeah they have like houses like milk or well yeah yeah yeah find the sound of moves to be farming or musical Musical musical there's many potential reasons why aliens would be solely interested in abducting cows but the game is not about determining those reasons it's about doing it and it's not about probing it's just about abducting yes we proving each other for information that's actually true okay so here we are we have a deck of Planet cards and we each start with a hand of four Planet cards and these have numbers ranging between 8 and 16.

and each of us looks at our hand and chooses one secret planet that we're going to put in play at the start of the game by the way it's Stella here from Maple University and torrent and we are going to have fun playing aliens yes so have each picked out each picked our starting planet and we're going to go back and forth taking one of three actions has to be a different action each turn and the actions can be to abduct aliens not abduct aliens abduct abduct cows from our planet you can attack me try to invade the other players Planet by guessing what number is on it or Draw more cards so most of our points are going to come from abducting cows we basically reveal a number of cows we wish wish to abduct which is equal to or below the number on our card so the higher we go the smaller our potential range of cards will be then we gain those points when you're going to invade the other player you're guessing what the number will be so yeah the higher you push the more likely it is that you will get your planets abducted and abducting causes you to lose cows the other player gains cows at the end of the game and get some engine building because you can abduct More Cows more rapidly as you've invaded planets it sounds like quite ridiculous in a good way it's like abducting cow here people and then there's also an exploration action and this is used to draw new cards uh one card if you are winning two cards if you are not winning because at the end of the game there is also a hand management element at the end of the game you'll pick your secret Planet back up and score some extra points if you've got a run of four consecutive cards or if you have three of the smaller cards the eights nines and tens so that is how we play it is uh very much a fun little party game uh thinking of reasons to abduct cows and attacking each other's planets bit of a memory as well and a bit of memory so let's pick first player one two three one two three one two three one two three one two three so you'll be first the longest longest rock paper scissors ever so it is your turn I wanna start with I'm not gonna guess I'm gonna start with abducting cow I'm gonna start with ten zoink okay so that means that you're uh your planet could be anything from 10 to 16.

correct uh I will also go abducting I am going to go a little more aggressively and say 12. hmm interesting so Taryn you guessed so you took 12. so it could be anything between 12 and 16. yes five options yeah I don't know if Terence actually like to push it or not I mean he would probably like to push it usually um he's the type of person I think that like to play a bit risky so I'm gonna guess 12.

no 13. there you go so successfully successfully invaded that might be wrong but in this case not too bad so how this Invasion action does work is you do get two guesses and you must take two guesses against your opponent in the two-player game in a three-player game or higher you would get three guesses uh with a maximum of two per opponent now if you fail to get any guesses right then you would lose three cows but you were successful so for the planet you invaded I lose five cows I guess they were they were still walking onto my spaceship from that planet and you just snatched them away yep managed to snitch okay so I now have to replace that card with another one from my hand all right so now that I'm losing and have very few cards in hand I'm gonna take the chance to take the third action which is exploration um I draw two new cards into my hand I'm now at my hand limit which is four plus the one on the table and I gained three cows okay I'm gonna just duck some cows and I also say then plus one that's what I said before Tim yes so 10 is the number that has to be equal or less than your secret Planet but now you get a bonus one for this planet zoink thank you every planet you've invaded gives you a bonus cow parrot a per abduction I need to start getting your planet away and start to while down the information so I'm going to guess 12.

well I'll be damned all right so I've got my first abduction uh you lose five cows it's awesome [Music] sit with another card and I still have one more guess so I can that's true I can take a completely blind guess here and I'll I'll do a go hard or go home situation let's say 16. no no well I have no information whatsoever on Terence card because he just played it so I'm going to try although I'm winning so I only take one card for this one but at least I got I have three cows mumu okay I'm also going to go exploring perhaps I don't like my hand perhaps I do who knows I'll draw two so this time I draw two cards into my hand I gained the three cows but now I have to discard down so I'm going to disc and I discard them openly so I'm going to discard uh and this 11.

so as the game goes on we can start to card count or work the probabilities of what's in or out because each card has as many copies as there are stars I still have no informations on what cart Karen hassock hasn't actually abducted any cows so I'm just gonna go and collect cows wink 10. plus one it's eleven okay that's it all right that strategy seems to be working well for you so I will also declare 10.

ah and get ten plus one I'm gonna guess 12. I'm gonna guess 13. no ah so because you've had an unsuccessful Invasion attempt three of your cows gone desert you oh as you were landing on the planet trying to run around looking for me they just sort of snuck out the back yeah and then they went somewhere else happy to their new home but to their new home but they little did they know that you'll be happier in my planet well if that if that were the case and again we don't have the full back story of the game but if that were the case then uh they just join us willingly okay so maybe they're not going to the right place for us anyway Invasion time for me yeah all right so I've got six options I'm going to I'm I'm going to say that you're pushing at this time so I'm going to guess 10.

no 11. yes hey okay so you lose five cows hmm I have thought but I have left to the lead and you add a new planet that's it I'm gonna gain two cards and three cows this time okay two cards and three cows I'm going to go back to abducting so I will say 10. plus two I also gonna abduct ten last one 10 Again 10 again it's a good it's it's a good sort of level it's you know it's consistent puts a bit of effort on me to uh to invade all right uh let's say so I'm going to invade I'm going to guess 13.

no I will guess 10. no okay so I lose three cows now I still haven't guessed parents and you took ten and I've guessed 12 and 13. I think I'm gonna guess 10. no 11. yes yay I think a little next guess you lose I lose five cows I pick my next planet and here's here again you can see the interesting card counting element to the game there's three of the five elevens are now out in play makes 11 a lot less likely going forward yeah true okay I am now losing so I might take the opportunity here to go exploring I will draw two new cards to my hand and I must discard one of them let it discard this 15.

oh so that might actually tell you something as well if Terence cards 15 that means he probably has 16 or good cards another 15 or 16 cards but or maybe is trying to gain good numbers or you know to at the end of the game you need to get if you get the white Planet which is the lower planet and then it's the three numbers in a row so it could be anything really at this stage all right based on parents guess so his guess I think 10 10 and 13.

and it's not right and I've taken 10 I'm gonna go here and then take 11. of course so yes two is thirteen one two three zoink thank you yes so that's always the risk of uh guessing the exact number that's been abducted um it means you can freely go higher without giving me any new information it's true all right I am going to abduct 12.

plus 2 is 14. take myself to 50 . I'm guessing you have 16. no ah because she discarded Fifth and I thought um maybe you have how about 14 yeah yeah [Music] okay time to go invading I will guess a lot of the 11s are out there so I will guess 12. no [Laughter] no all right and you have to put another one out there and I still have one guess so based on no information I could uh take a stab I could luckily get and I must take my two guesses yeah so I will guess 14.

no I'm going to take two cards because I'm losing by one point and then I will again three and have to discard one by one card oh sorry here so face up of course there you go eleven this is eleven the fourth eleven is gone yeah um I might take the opportunity now that I'm losing yes so we're throwing some more information out into the world here as well correct always very interesting um let's cast these two off what number are they eight and ten oh I'm going to take some cows I'll get 12 plus two is fourteen it's uh one two three four and eighteen all right so you've gone away from your normal 10 strategy I will also abduct I'm going to say thirteen plus three is sixteen seventy one all right I think I'm gonna guess 13.

because based on what I've guessed and then what's out what I have in Hand of course and that's it yeah so I actually reduced your range of choices there I basically made it certain I would get invaded there but yeah I wanted to take the opportunity to get a couple of extra points that's fair okay but you do get one more guess oh interesting because all the 11s are pretty much out there 13's a lot of them are out there and so I'm gonna guess 10.

no yeah all right I will try to invade you I'm going to guess 16. not 15. yes yeah okay you lose five yeah let's lose mean five okay I'm gonna take two cards zoink and get three cows mmm okay I'm going to abduct I'm gonna I'm gonna ask for this card quickly and I'm gonna discard this okay I'll bring that down it's six at 12.

all right I will abduct duck thing they're floating in space yeah okay I will abduct eleven plus four fifteen strategy pen duck ten plus three 29. all right I will draw a card and gain three I will drop two cards actually this time so again three one two three because I'm losing there you go and then I have the discard uh this card too there you go okay another twelve and eight okay now the draw deck is getting very low as well so the game uh will end when someone gets to either 120 cows or the draw deck is empty so it could go off either of those I'm going to go back and abduct eleven plus four another 15 takes me to 99.

it's less time I forgot to move this here so now I want to collect zoink let's collect 12 plus three so one two one two three to forty seven it's a close run thing all right I'm going to explore I'm going to take a card you're winning just by two points at the moment yes and I will need to discard a card we'll get rid of this 14.

all right let me guess your card um oh like see they are already informations out there so there are one uh how many elevens are there one two three four so they are a total of five elevens there's only one eleven left out there and I'm gonna guess eleven no ah you've taken 11. they are already four 12 cards out there so it can't be 12.

I'm gonna guess 13. no oh okay I'm losing three cows okay it's really getting close getting close all right so I will abduct So based on what you've guessed and what we just went through it can't be 11 12 or 13. um and it can't be 15. so you will definitely get it next time you invades so I might as well uh tip my hand sixteen plus four whoa so I'm one short of triggering the end I will say even though you do have the ability to definitely guess it right next time I don't have to just sit there and let you do it I can voluntarily give up that planet so I would give it to you but I wouldn't lose five cows for doing so so it would reduce the amount of cows I'd lose but I think in this case it was just as good for me to just go with the 16 and get maximum cows you do I think I'm gonna have to collect I'm gonna also collect two uh 12 again like before so one two plus three one two three okay and 109.

yeah and I don't know if that's yeah and it will all come down to the The Hand cards and so I am going to trigger the end I'm going to take one card I thought you can't I thought you were going to guess but I guess you're not going to risk it no I wanted to to get the cards in my hand that I needed did you get it no sorry so there we have it the end is triggered so again the uh the three cows for the action that what true that's what triggers the end yep and so what we do now is Let's uh clear out all of these other cards uh the cards in our hand we reveal along with the one on the table oh it's 15 tarent at 13 sorry you've got the 13 yeah for 13.

okay so we each get it's gonna be very close we each get five points per invaded Planet so I get 20 and you get 15. um we get 15 cows if we have three small planets in our hand including the car we picked up there I fell short so you have three so you get 15 points yay one two three four five yeah and if we have a strait of four consecutive cards we get 20 points I do not you do not so you win so I win by the bearer samargins 142 well not the barest but 142 to 139 well done that yeah and so it's very close it was very close indeed so what's the story at the end so Taryn the alien object the most cows yes I'm gonna go with the I've got a incredibly grass covered planet story and the cows I'm getting them for lawn care purposes that's great well abducting cows all over the world for that it's gonna be a good course and that's okay so we have it that is Cosmic cow collectors the game plays two to four players as you can see a fun little uh fun little guessing party game but with a few different uh ways you can play and things you can do and the the hand management side of it I spent so much of the game with all these low cards in my hand so I had to keep going back for more cards so I had something good to put there yeah yeah there you go and hopefully you've been enjoying these and hopefully you are doing something fun today let us know what games you play and if you want to help us hit like And subscribe and you know what to do and they'll be really grateful and see you next time bye