I backed Apothebakery: love the look of the game. But I agree it’s gonna be a light game. I backed it because i wanna play it with my daughter: she’s eleven. So it’s a Family game for me
I must say I really understand the urge to find that campaign game that is right for you. It took a few years, but I found the right one for me: Dungeon Unversalis. Makes it much easier to be more objective about these games.
Glad you lead with this prototype point. I want to know what I’m paying for, so I will back something else and maybe get this on a reprint once the player verdict is in.
Deliverance and Cloudspire this summer is all i really care about. and thats only because i own both and look forward to having more of both. crowdfunding is in a very bad place. shipping is crazy, games are meh, everything is so very expensive. thats where im at at least.
Just finished my first Hexplore It game and am pumped for more! Trying to tell myself not to go ALL IN as I have WAY too many games. Their page and updates are so clear and that’s a big plus for me.
Really appreciate you covering upcoming non-crowdfunding games during this video. Any chance you’d do video reviews for games that are “out” or “just published” on your channel? I see most of your videos are covering crowdfunding….
Such a shame Monolith are the ones trying to pioneer into the Genre. I would have thought you would have the sense to close the business and at least open under a new name to try and hide it. Nice to see they have enough money to buy the rights to a new IP after leaving so many people missing out on previous promises. This likely wont do as well as it should because of the name attached which is a shame for the chance of anime board games.
Doubt it, Isfet, easily the least popular Pantheon, did really well. As did Conan Red Nails. Seems Monolith are still making a lot of money irrespective of their poor behaviours. Similar to Awaken Realms with their AI art, hiding the fact until discovered, and then boosting the price of all crowdfunding by way of GF changes (“follower gifts”, “gamefound stores”, “PM with pricing that hides the cheaper campaign price” etc).
I don't trust Monolith with anything since they screwed over everyone who bought Orcquest Warpath by not including any campaign guidelines and not balancing the game so you can play it through start to finish without becoming massively overpowered. They've been promising to publish these guidelines ever since they delivered the game in October 2023. Their last update was during their Conan campaign when people were complaining on the GF page, so Monolith promised the guidelines would be published the next month. That was over 3 months ago and they've been silent ever since. Monolith is also facing backlash because their delivery of Batman Season 3 is riddled with problems including: missing stretch goals, missing content, items promised as single sided end up being double sided, English rulebook is literally half French, numerous errors in reference cards, etc... Too bad, as I love the Berserk manga/anime!
Tales from Red Dragon Inn 2nd print is so tantalizing. I heard a lot of good things about that game and I love dungeon crawlers. Might bite the bullet there. I’ve only recently backed Cysmic all-in, so there may be room for one more pledge this summer. Otherwise I’m just waiting for the fall to see what Story of Many has to offer when that launches (hopefully on GF)
Hexplore it after the first 2 excellent parts. Part 3 and 4 skipped. Now there comes part 5 which is a must have. Tales from the Red Dragon lnn comes as a surprise will have to have a look if any of the updates are needed to what is a great game already.
For Hexplore IT, their rule book is really small compared to other rulebooks, so I would say the rulebook would be half as many pages if it was the size of most rulebooks. To give an example, its usually the size of those pamphlets that show other games people sell.
Problem with Odalin for me is in the game play everyone uses a health draining mechanic to power themselves up, and personally I hate that type of mechanic even if its thematic in the game. I was actually going to back it before I watched game play vids showing that.
I’m actually pretty excited about the Dante/Odalin crossover too. Just seems cool. But I don’t know if the gameplay will be so different. I’ll probably just play it as a one shot dungeon crawler unless that ends up being super fun then I’d consider the campaign. Blood looks soooo much better than Grimcoven. I backed both lol
I would argue your grips with 7 Citidal being primary solo, is more for 7th Continent. After playing it it really is better with at least 1 other person, so for me its a 2 person game.
Odalin - The main campaign boss (Abbadon) is actually not in the core box, its being sold as an Add-on. Their "solution" is to either buy the addon with extra shipping or use another mini as an stand-in. Extremely predatory decision that no one should ever reward them for it.
They advertised the $40 addon with the two new demons as 'use them as your allies or enemies', and then added a stretch goal to use them as enemies. This shitty behavior is an easy blacklist for me. And the typos on the project page, don't even get me started...
this and Blood are easy non-backs for me . Shipping to NZ prices are crazy. I could get grim coven standee core + shipping for only 10-20 dollars more than just paying their shipping. People complain about AR, but the std version + shipping is a bargain for many places in the World . Plus tend to refine game a lot post PM. If I'm paying crazy shipping I'll save it for Cmon United DC , least you feel shipping gives you 101 extra chibis you probably may or may not need
almost pull the trigger on backing Odalin, that first day exclusive miniature is fire, but the wait stops me from backing. 1year wait for a game is too much for me. so much interest will be lost while waiting that long.
So if you pledge 129 on the first day, you get the boss of the add-on which you can't use and if you back the game plus add-on from day 2 forward you have to buy the boss mini extra. Smells like bs and from that fact alone I refuse to back
Hexploreit isn’t that rough to learn or stay current with. It’s no Death May Die-like dice chucker, but the rule are internally consistent and just make sense. I’m probably going to pass on this one. Still getting fun out of my Vol 1 and 2. That said. Wow is this game fun because of its modularity (United/DMD…) I do think their campaign pages are fantastic. You can tell that they’ve done this before and believe in communication.
Its funny because I am getting this one, and have all the others, but, I have only played Vol 1 so far, but people love using choices from the other volumes for volume 1.
I'm not pledging for any of these! Hooray! This is the first Hexplore It game I am passing on. I have the other 4, it's just too much. The SGs are added into the base games.
Well, I can't say that I don't watch your channel, so you can count that as we hearing you. xD (confusing double negatives ftw) This game has been developing for a while, and we are working tirelessly to polish it. Our goal was to make an immersive dungeon crawl that we would want to play and that we felt could cater to a wide variety of playstyles, as our team also has different tastes. Thank you for covering our game! [I am the Lead Game Designer of Dragori, just to be clear to everyone reading]
Regarding saturation in titles which see 3 (or more) campaigns: I totally get your point. I would like to add another thought avenue. In case of some publishers (game brewer, gray fox games, ludos magnum studio, etc) they might have issues with capitalising their client base due issues with campaigns. One thing to note on LMS, they put out good games. However their campaigns don't go very high in funding. Why is that? My opinion is due poor backer satisfaction. My example, I would never back any LMS game again despite my love with BRW. How many campaigns are needed for Gray Fox games to deliver a Tsukuyumi game without issues? These examples pile on.
On trick takers. I really enjoyed rebel princess, looking forward to the release of the deluxe edition. I’m sure you’ve already played it, but good to put on the radar!
Listening your videos, we should not support anything, w8 for retail version and second hand market. Just keep in mind, we are supporting ideas and we get something unique, some extra content for it. If you dont want to wait or dont take any risk at all, go to a shop and pick something from the self. PS: guy with hundreds of board games telling us do not support anything. Pathetic.
I’ve actually changed my opinion of Dune War for Arrakis. Was totally not sold on it first time round, was happy to just have War of the Ring. Been watching gameplay and thinking yeah ok this is interesting and different from WotR, probably preorder now. Skipping all the rest.
well for this one you won(grimcoven) lol i cancel 3h before it was over but i still have all-in for hexplore it so i’m waiting for a reason not to jump on that wagon…😂
This video could also be named "Why You Should (NOT?) Back *any Awaken Realms' game*". Thanks Chris, you put into words my feelings about AR. I cancelled my Dragon Eclipse's pledge a few weeks ago because I'm tired of their aggressive marketing strategy: they are selling hollow shell. And in the end, like every AR's games I know it will be a "Meh" and bloated game (but a beautiful game like every AR's game).
