Week In Review - April 13, 2026

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0:21 Hey everybody, welcome to week in review. This is the Dice Tower and each week we put out this video telling you about all the videos we put out the prior week. Think of it as an index of sorts and we'll give you short summaries of them and if you want to see the full review, check the comments below. Here we go. Hey everybody, Z Garcia here and here's what I did last week. So, I took a look at some Arkham Horror LCG bits and bobbles. Uh, and check that video out. I didn't give anything a score, but I I showed you playmats and boxes of storage and things like that. So that if you want to enhance your Arkham Horror the card game, the living card game, you can look into some of this stuff from Game Gen. And then I reviewed Severton, which I gave a six out of 10 to. Severton is a cooperative game um with an interesting premise based on uh literature, you know, like an old series of of comic books from uh Europe. and it it seems to have a lot of love that was poured into it, but I didn't really like the the game feels a little bit clunky and I thought it scaled very poorly.

1:26 It's it there's a lot of adaptations that have to take place as you are scaling between one and five players. With one, you are running a team of these five kids. They each have a special ability. You have to manage their hands separately. It's kind of a mess. With five, you just have one kid. That's you. You have your hand and your special ability, but then there's five of you taking turns whenever you want to. There's no structure. And then everything in between just feels kind of clunky, including taking a card that represents two kids the same time. They always move together on the board. I just again, it's a little bit clunky. I like the premise, but the game wasn't quite there for me. Hence, a six out of 10. And that's it. Let's keep on rolling. Hey everyone, welcome back to Chris Time. This week I took a look at first Peak Team Rangers, a 6 out of 10.

2:15 Uh, many people seem to like this one more than I do, and that's okay. A a ice split on behalf of the people next to me cooperative game where you're running around trails and you hand cards to the other players. Everyone does that simultaneously. It's interesting. It's a nice hook, but it doesn't get rid of the feeling that at the end of the day, it's it's a pretty repetitive cooperative game, though a pleasant one. Uh, next up, Acropolis Pantheon, a 6.5, a cooperative expansion to the game. Acropolis. I think that it runs too long. I like the decisions. I like the stuff that you build more, but it definitely runs too long. Uh, and I think it's all right. Wendy like this one far more than me. Next up, Lords of Worlds. I gave a seven out of 10 for this Kramer and Keysling game. Uh, where you're drawing up cards. It has a very interesting card market and then you're moving around building up tiles onto your own planet. It's it's familiar in a lot of ways, but that card market is so good. And I highly, highly, highly advise that you play the strategic variants in the back of the rule book.

3:12 That's what gets a seven. The basic game would honestly get like a five from me. And then lastly, flip seven with a vengeance. I give this one an eight. This is my preferred way of playing flip seven. Uh, and I won't I don't I won't have any reason to go back to the original. This one, yeah, might be a little bit longer, but has more meaningful interaction points. Tom and I disagreed greatly on this one, but that's okay. Go watch that review. Lastly, lastly, because I forgot to mention it, Moa, an eight out of 10. This is a two-player area control game that plays unlike what you would expect where there's neutral factions on the board that you have to fight over. You can't directly combat each other, actually. A a game well worth looking into, especially if you like tense, good, thinky two-player games. Mura is an eight for me. And that, folks, has been my week. Hey everybody, I'm Joey Evans, and here's what I reviewed this week. Uh, this week I only reviewed one game, and that is Layers. Layers, Layers, Layer, Layers. Anyway, I reviewed Layers, Layers. And I loved this game. This is kind of a one v one.

4:10 You're making a dungeon. You have to go through it. This game is fantastic. It reminds me of having a grid, making hero quest things, and having my friends go through it, but it does all that in like 20, 30 minutes. I gave this a nine. I can see that going up. I love this game. It's one I add to my personal collection. It is fantastic. So, watch review on that. I also did my 3D printing video. So, if you have a 3D printer or you are looking at getting one, check that out. There's a lot of cool things in there like a catapult dice tower. What? How cool is that? Answer. Pretty cool. All right. Anyway, I'm Jo Evans. That's what I reviewed this week.

4:41 Hi, I'm Wendy Ye, and this week I reviewed Acropolis, the Pantheon expansion, which makes it cooperative. Uh, this one I gave an 8.52, which is the same score I gave the base game. Um, I think I like this one just a little bit more as well. What's really interesting is that you get to build up this big city in the middle. Um, and working together, you get to do so much more of that layering and building. And so that's something that I really enjoy about Acropolis is that puzzle mixed with just that how to build it up. And so, uh, very cool. All right. Well, anyways, that's the game that I have for you this week. Let's go ahead and see who's next.

5:19 Hey there everybody. It's Mike Delisio. And this week I reviewed three games. First up, we've got the solo mode specifically for Josogi Anime Studio Tycoon, which I rate a seven. I have rated the base game already. I've reviewed the base game on the channel. Uh, this is specifically for the solo mode. I think it's a fine solo mode. It's good. It's definitely not the way I prefer to play the game, but h for what it does, it adds some nice challenges. uh it replicates some of the uh multiplayer experience where it needs to and in other ways it changes it up. So, a solid solo experience, one I would recommend, maybe not as the primary way to play the game. Next up, we've got Layers, which I rate a 7.5, but I want to be very clear here that I'm only rating the base game without any of the adventure pack content. Based on what I've seen, I have not played it yet, but based on what I've seen, the game would be uh in the seal of excellence territory if you include those things, but just based on the base game itself, it's still one I easily recommend. 7.5, even getting close to eight, I really like what this two-player kind of dungeon building and delving game does.

6:35 Nice production. Really, really cool two-player game is layers. And then finally uh is Moa, which I rated an 8.5. Gave that one the seal of excellence. This is the latest game in the Mythos line coming from Bitewing Games. And this is one that strays the furthest from the path of what the other three games in this line have done. It's a bit more complex. There's a bit more uh kind of going on in the game, but wow, do I think that this is a really clever solo or two-player primarily uh area majority game where you do not directly remove the pieces of the other player, which is very unlike most area majority games. Instead, you're using NPC factions that are out there on the board to kind of mess with and manipulate the other player. However, you also have to kind of stop them because they score along with you and your opponent. You could theoretically have both human players losing to those NPCs. So, a really clever uh design, a fantastic production as always from Bitewing. It's an 8.5.

7:41 All right. Well, that's going to do it for me this week. This is Mike Delisio, and let's keep it moving. All right. So, for me, I reviewed Chicago Grand Slam, which is so very bad. mixing trick taking and poker and roll and move in one big mess. Two out of 10. I also took a look at some new stuff for Heroescape. Some very basic terrain and different troops. An eight out of 10. The gathering storm. Me and Chris reviewed flip seven with a vengeance. He liked it much more than I did. I gave it a four. It just I like flip seven a lot, but this just adds a bunch of take that cards to it. Didn't find it particularly fun. I did six short game reviews of various games, so you can check that out, see more about them. I also talked about Mimir's Challenge. This is um kind of a a Norse themed area control style game. Very simple and basic, fun to play. 7 out of 10. And we reviewed Layers, which I gave a seven out of 10.

8:39 It is very good two-player game. Note that my seven increases to a much higher score when you include the expansions, but I'll talk about that stuff next week. I also continued my pile of mid games talking about games that are ranked 3,000 or higher on Board Gamegeeek. My original top 20 to 11 from 21 years ago and we did all our different live shows including we did our top 10 games that were ahead of their time. So check all that out on the Dice Tower. Thanks so much for watching this weekend review. I'm Tom Bassel.

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