Alien: Fate of the Nostromo Playthrough | Let's Play a Ravensburger Co-operative Board Game 

Fun replay. One clarification that the designer made in another forum (BGG): Concerning the Motion Tracker, the cost shown in the rulebook is incorrect. Amend the 3 in the rulebook to a 2 to match the reference cards which specify the cost as 2.

I really love the game NEMESIS. Although, I have only played with a group, havent tried solo yet. It's made with group play in mind and has three game modes; Semi-CoOp with Traitor possibility, Full CoOp, and Solo with campaign. It does a VERY good job of recreating the feel of ALIEN and ALIENS in one.

Wow, you got to this one really fast. From shipping box to game table in record time.

Seems like a simple version of nemesis with the fantastic real Alien theme. Just pre ordered it,thanks for the review 👍🏻

The rules should give Ripley the ability to restore 1 morale point for the team everytime she yells out "Get away from her you b--ch!", whether that makes sense in the context of the game or not, lol

Cheers to John, because that was fun!

Great playthrough! I just discovered your channel and will be watching through your other videos. I really like the pace and your editing is top notch. Just one rules correction: if you use the incinerator to send the alien back to its nest, you don't draw an Encounter card. I guess you've scared it off for a turn. It's in the manual (page 7, top right) and on the reference card but easy to miss. Many thanks.

Me and my buds absolutely love this game.

Excellent. Thanks ABNB. Thanks John too

Brilliant playthrough! Could be a must buy just for Parker's model alone....

I would say use a bag for the conceal tokens, but that doesn’t work because you need to draw them face down. Otherwise, this sounds really fun.

34:46 better to use a cloth bag for the conceal tokens i think, weird they dodnt include, but hey its RAVENS BURGER so i dont expect to much from them anyway

Personally, I say a mashup inspired by Horrified; "I was a Teen-Age Werewolf Vampire-Hunter in Outer Space". Take these player characters and pick, divy up the American Monster player cards to represent how they were as teens (and apply once as skill remembered), replace the Ash with Dracula, and reach into a hat (without looking) everyone picks out a paper that has a W on it to decide who's secretly a werewolf. Crew Morale counter acts also as a Wereworlf transform counter; you start off human and each time you a row is finished you transform. Once you become a werewolf your goal changes; you're targeting everyone, going for closest and attacking once in the same space. If you are the werewolf and unfortunate enough to attack the alien even if you kill it, its acid blood kills you. Any who get injured by the werewolf have to reach back in the hat (with "W" slip replaced) to see if they were bitten/infected. Any other interesting cards from the Horrified (or any other suitable game) can always be shuffled in. The theme appropriate beauty if it is the more of a mashup, the more of a game Frankenstein (monster) it becomes. Who knows, maybe Colonel Mustard is on board? Maybe someone secretly uses the chaos to commit a murder? All's fair in love & boardgaming.

8:38 The Alien's route to Ripley is shorter by the North stairs (red).

Seems like a referee might work good for this game, so the players won't know were the alien is or where everyone else is moving. Would need atleast 2 board maps.

Another great video!!

Great vid as always, I heard that boardgame geek have a director's cut variant from the game designer to download which ups the difficulty level.

Just a small rule clarification, in a turn when you use the incinerator, you don't need to draw an encounter card afterwards

This one goes on my list for stuff to get! Thank you much for the playthrough! Nothing like a scary alien to get our characters to speed up and reveal those tokens! 😆What happens if the alien attacks a square with multiple characters? Does everyone scarper?

makes little sense that u don't get a minimum of ONE stress even if u had the flashlight or something no matter jonesy or not, it makes the game FAAAR to EASY me thinks ! HOUSERULES INCOMING🚀🚀🚀

Have you considered a house rule that restores morale?

I'd like to see an Alien-themed version of the Jaws board game (including the two-stage game and the double-sided board), where one player is the Alien and in the second stage (maybe) the Alien has a chance to eliminate some of the crew before the crew destroys it. If one crew member survives the crew players win, if the Alien kills them all that player wins. Something along those lines. :-)

An idea for player elimination could be if a character suffers a chain reaction where they encounter the Alien 2 or more times in one turn they are eliminated. It doesn't happen too often. One example Alien moves into room character flees and triggers an Alien CC that character is eliminated.

Great vid.

This game looks well worth investing in :)

I enjoyed this!

Parker was the best, smartest and went down fighting trying save somebody else,

dooms day countdown is back in stock on game

The dinner-scene as a dice-minigame & introduction to the main game would be fun. Kane feels kinda funny, so roll the dice. A 4, good, you just had to fart, no harm done. Hopefully. I guess. Now he feels weird, roll the dice, and it's a 2, some mild pain, no problemo, pouring some relieving whiskey into the muesli. Save, for now. The tension now is palpable, breathing is getting difficult, another dice rolling, and it's a 6, which means, in this case, Subverting Expectations, Kane dies, and the Chestburster is not a Chestburster, but a Bottomburster. Everybody loses their holy shit, and 5 points of morale, which would carry over into the main game. 😬

Kinda odd that the alien can't kill any crew members since, you know, that's what the whole movie was about.

29:03. Things are going well, but we still need to draw an encounter card Stalk comes up. What was that again? XD!!!

I know this is an older video so hoping you see this, but wouldn't you lose 2 morale for the "lost in the signal" alien card around 16:45? I know morale is only lost when the alien actually encounters a crew member during movement, but with no movement for that card it seems silly to put the morale damage on the card without any specified way of losing it. And thematically it makes sense. The crew tracking the alien, and then losing it on radar would be a demoralizing event as the alien could now be anywhere on the ship. That's how I made sense of it anyways. The rules are a bit vague or ambiguous sometimes so any input is appreciated

Flashlight can be used on other players turns right? Pretty sure that's a thing. As long as so.eone has a flashlight all moral damage is basically reduced by 1. Flashlights have infinite use.

34:47 i mean it seems ok for the prize and for the first time user friendlyness and whatnot but i feel it doesnt really catch the paranoia and claustrophobia of the first movie, something is missing, probabaly the chance of instant death of that particular team member when the alien pounces at u or the alien cards, i mesn it makes no sense thematically that everybody survives till the end...🙄😐

In three Space No one can hear you scream However, We can hear you scream once you run out of those spaces XD!!!!!

Finally bought the game and it arrived yesterday. Last night I sat down to learn it and gave up in frustration and several false starts. The encounter phase explained in the terrible rule book is truly baffling. I also on the designers previous game Rayguns and rocket ships. I had the exact same experience with that game. Terrible rule book and I gave up in frustration. Both games really have some nice components and theme. It’s a shame they are rule books are terrible. Thank you for this video I may give Fate of the Nostromo another try.