Steampunk rally fusion in about 3 minutes

this video is brought to you by the 3 minute board games patrons help choose what games we cover by supporting us on patreon kia ora koutou and welcome to steampunk rally fusion in about 3 minutes it has a solo mode, it's a game for one to eight players, playing time is medium and it's a moderately complex game   you're one of the earth's greatest inventors competing in a race against your peers in a  daring contest of engineering skill courage and sheer pig-headed determination the prize, being declared ambassador of earth the game is a race and once one player crosses the finish line play one more full round the winner is the player who finished furthest down the track card drafting: each turn you will draft four cards and pass ones you don't select to the other players dice: dice are the fuel that drive your machine along engine building: you're literally building a complex engine full of interconnected parts play a turn each player starts the game with their pilot and their matching engine card, a standee, a damage wheel and a light bulb token there are four decks of cards, each turn draw one card from each stack to hand choose one to keep and pass the other to the next player as shown this direction changes at the end of the turn for each card there are three things you can do, install it on your  machine as long as there is a connection cog to fit it to discard the card for the resources shown in its top right or if it is a boost card place it under your damage wheel for later use repeat this process until all cards are used, let's look at a developed contraption next up is the vent phase where you can spend cogs to reduce the dies value by two or two dice by one each this is one way to clear dice spots cogs can also be used to re-roll dice or boost them by one pip once per turn you can use your light bulb to activate all cards with that icon, here we get a cog and one health and here we remove any one die activating this spot needs red dice and for each multiple of four we can move ahead one space because we can place multiple dice at once this is also valid for two move this card has an upgrade option if we put three cogs here it now moves two each time we activate it move forward on the map, there will sometimes be multiple paths the left one will do damage to our machine and there are other locations with unusual rules on each map here we place value six using mixed dice to get two new blue dice and here a red six to get health a cog and another red die boosts can be played at any time unless stated on the card this one lets us use our light bulb actions again and here we place eight value to use this action twice we opt to move once and then blow up the part to get two fusion dice you can at any time re-jig your machine layout fusion dice have four to nine pips and cannot be vented but they can be placed in any spot when you take damage first remove health you have gained and then for each leftover damage remove a machine part take too much damage and you move to last place there are also secret projects you can power up over many turns with dice at the end of a turn discard any unused dice why would you like this game?

steampunk rally is a racing game like no other as it's all about the wacky engine you build that evolves over the course of the game and the damage you take plus the cards you get mean the engine will be different each turn and there's a crazy amount of components and potential engines to build even more so if you own the original steampunk rally the gallery of inventors is super fun and again more with the original game included the boosts are a lot of fun and get played all the time to shake the game up all up this is a game for people who love engine building but who want to do something with that engine other than just score points the best thing about this game is the constantly evolving contraptions each turn is a new puzzle however there is a lot of simultaneous play in the game which is mostly a good thing but it does mean the game moves at the pace of its slowest layer, and with all those engine parts the slowest player can be real slow for more mad science and engine building try gizmos and for a different type of race try spacecorp steampunk rally the real wacky races a reminder three minute board games does not do paid content  keep us independent by supporting us on patreon and if you enjoyed this video hit the notification button like share and subscribe to the channel