Nightmare Cathedral - Disturbingly Beautiful

hello graduates it's stella from meeple university and this is stella's short and sweet preview for nightmare cathedral from board and dies welcome to the land of dreams and nightmares aren't they beautiful choose your destiny fulfill your dreams and fight your conflicts as when the cathedral is built you must embrace the nightmares [Laughter] the game plays one to four players with mechanics such as action selection engine building and follow the game is of medium complexity [Music] in nightmare cathedral you control your followers by spawning moving and fighting strategically to fulfill your objective or dream cards and to advance the ritual track all four points players have five different actions that can be upgraded so on their turn player chooses an action the starting actions are players can climb on ritual track for bonuses and points sacrificing their followers from matching areas to pay the cost or play cards to upgrade their future actions or for once of benefits or spend followers to build thoughts or produce followers at their faults or move units convert units to your site with your shaper and resolve any conflicts in places where there are more than one player's pawns could be their own or other players or the neutral shadows those are the actions but players get better actions as they upgrade their starting action cards and one of the puzzles is to plan ahead for future action your dreamer goes on the day space for your current action then moves to the corresponding night space your next action cannot be adjacent to your current night space forcing a range of actions after active player plays other players get to do a follow action whether their duty conform or descend action depends on whether the dreamer is adjacent to the active player's dreamer or not there are many ways to score but dream card objectives are the most critical these score you points for completing specific tasks on your turn so setting up your followers in the perfect position to score them is important but with your opponents always able to start conflicts on your behalf or convert them to their side it can be difficult to complete the best points early in the game at the end of each active player's turn a piece of cathedral is built in the center of the board it acts as timing for the midpoint of the game since when the cathedral is built the two chosen nightmares in the game become available for players to control [Laughter] now you can't escape anymore players are able to then command the nightmares to their benefits buy some actions in upgraded action cards or through the bonuses on the track gimmicks when certain number of units are devoured by the nightmares or after 4 rounds if not yet triggered and player get points from the dream cards they fulfill throughout the game points on this track the forts they build upgraded cards and their followers devoured by nightmares the players with the most points has followed daydreams successfully escaped from the nightmares that almost devour them and wins there are layers of strategy that are not very apparent at the start of the game the action selection mechanic is one you've seen in game like scythe needs planning ahead extra planning here as there could be several actions that cannot be accessed engine building comes by upgrading your cards definitely could lead to more powerfully and follow actions the earlier the better the game comes with a few different nightmares come with amazing looking art and minis that you can choose to from for each game with recommended two nightmares to choose from at a time this makes your game differ each time that focuses on different strategy climbing the ritual track a lot of conflicts game and trigger quickly and so on so would you dare to enter the horror taking control of your fate to rise up become the master of the nightmares so thanks for watching folks check out nightmare cathedral on game found i'll put the link in the description below the components featured in this video are prototype so rules and artwork are not vinyl you would help us by like the video subscribe and hit the bell and comments below if you find this video useful i also share my board games journey on instagram hopefully i will see you there too see you next time