Great game. Theme is in the imagination of the players. If you can get 3 of 5 at the table (yes 5 plays best) that are into their race picks and are vocal, gums out during the battles the game can truly shine (but that goes for any game, it's all about the people around the table you play with). BOLLOCKS
I LOVE dwellings but I’m really looking forward to andromedas edge. I think the theme will work much better, I love the way they updated the mechanics of battle, etc.
Nice review. However, I strongly disagree on a crucial point: as a father of three, I regularly go to the toilet when I don’t need a dump. Just for five minutes of peace.
I've been on the fence on whether to buy this or not. This review is the review I've been looking for before making my decision. I'm going to pull the trigger and pick it up today. As always, top notch review. Thank you.
I went straight off it as soon as you placed the roof on Mr Wimpy Homes noggin. As always a great pov. I can now make an "educated" investment in yet another Eldritch/ Mansions expansion. Keep rocking .
After searching for Dwellings of Eldervale since it was initially announced, I recently managed to finally buy it as it was pretty much one of my most desired games ever and me and my playgroup really loved it. Easily one of the best board games ever at this point in time.
Out of curiosity....what was your best game ever before you got Dwellings? This game is somewhere between good and great for our group, but not anywhere near close to being best game ever.
@@richardjohnson9649 Hello - my other favorites are A Feast For Odin, Clank Catacombs, Blood Rage, Vindication, Dune Imperium, The Artemis Project (one of the most criminally underrated games ever and it is such a good balance of mechanics and presence).
I absolute loved my play of this game, but ultimately sold it. Not because the game isn’t great, but simply because I already have enough of these big games that make it to the table once or twice a year, and this one wasn’t quite enough to replace those favourites.
Huh, this one actually looks pretty cool! I not really buying any new games atm, but it's one to consider for the future. Great video as always, my favorite board game youtuber!
The big difference here is that combat are unlikely to make or break your strategy. You get the action before combat so your turn is not wasted if you lose the combat. You will mostly just lose on your regroup action being weaker once.
I've played the demo a couple times at a con, and it is fun. A lot of the the same DNA but they made the elemental track more interesting (imo) and some other changes. I think like Dwellings the theme is there, it works maybe a little better than the fantasy theme but the gameplay is still fun.
I like this game, but in the end it's just Concordia scoring with monsters. And my biggest gripe with the game is that two people can go for the same suit (which is how you win) and there are enough cards to allow both to score massive points. One of the best things about Concordia as a design is the competition for the cards you buy which determines your score. This and Margrave of Valeria (another Concordia-like game, if not a clone) is this fundamental problem. Single Suiting is the path to victory and there isn't enough competition to stop that from happening. I've played this 3 or 4 times and that was my final takeaway. I like the game, but it's Concordia at its core with a bunch of flash, set up and randomness that is fun, but not ultimately satisfying because the diversions are irrelevant.... bang a track as hard as you can as fast as you can. Survive the annoyances and win.
@@KMReviews Yes, it's the recall mechanism and the slotting in upgrades for those actions that make it interesting. I can see Thomas' perspective where it falls into the rut of pretty much every other worker placement game. Race up a track for the most points. The genre has been stagnant for awhile. At least DoE throws in some combat and take-that to inject some fun into the experience.
@@VaultBoy13 yes I mean to me there’s so many tracks and the way you run up them are all different. Do you run up the track by battling and monsters, do you do it by building dwellings, do you buy adventure cards, etc. if you play with the shards and castles it can make those mechanics more interesting as well. Plus the worker placement aspect of having 4 different kinds of workers, that each have assymetric on 2 sides of like 8 different boards is insanely different gameplay every single time. On top of how you build out your tableu making you extra unique. Anyways I think it’s fantastic obviously lol
It’s not out yet I don’t think. Plus it seems to be around £300 which would be the most we’ve ever paid for a game…unlikely but you never know when you’re going to win the lottery or get hired for a drug run.
@@BoardGameBollocks haahaahaaaha, thanks 🙏 though for the incredibly prompt FKN response. Sorry but I couldn't help myself putting that in my response.
hmmmmm whats inconsistant to me is your review of anachrony. I think this and that are there very comparable in many ways and yet you said anachrony wasn't worth it. IT WAS TO COMPLEX!!!! When you recommend station fall which was as bloated as vizs johnny fart pants. I think you should do an anachrony re-review!!!!! clearly your gaming group has evolved!! hahahahaa C U Next Tuesday
not enough for every player and the rule book is a piece of donkey doo. "excuse me can i have a look at what he does i forgoten" (how many times this game was that) there is just so many random cuck heads going round the station. In any case, I'm going off-topic. Clearly, my hard-on for both games has not infected you like Corona. Love your channel keep putting out the champaign socialists to dry cheeeerrrrssss@@BoardGameBollocks
This game didn't work for me at all; a bunch of disjointed mechanisms that don't mesh together very well, not to mention that the fighting system sucks.
I played this and thought it was meh. Agree that the mechanisms don't really make sense. A worker placement game for points AND a dudes on a map game with dice rolling? Honestly given the hexagonal map spaces and combat I would have rather played Nexus Ops. And there are so many other better worker placement games out there than this.
