You're welcome, thanks for watching! The rulebook (as of us playing) specifically said to keep them hidden. We could house rule that they are revealed - but we try to give opinions based on the official rules. :)
Nice review and vid - really well presented and produced. And even though it's not super important, it helps to see a local take on how this game plays. I'll definitely check out your other content.
Hmm... You talked a lot about individual elements of the game, but never described what the game is, what it's about, nor what it looks like when set up. So despite the 12 mins of video, I'm still not sure what this game is.
Sorry we didn't provide enough of a holistic view here! Still finding our feet and learning as we go - it's comments like this that help us improve, so thank you for taking the time (and apologies again if we wasted yours!) For what it's worth after the fact, the game is about children entering a haunted house, getting cursed and then needing to find a way to break that curse. The theme and narrative here isn't particularly critical to the gameplay though. The game in a nutshell is almost an auction game, where each turn you bid for your chance to select a specific curse card from a location to complete certain sets that will let you reduce your overall points, and the cost of the bid is how 'deep' you place your worker to a location and how many ghosts you risk gaining as well. It's a very straight forward game - you place a worker into one of three locations. When a location gets its 3rd worker placed in it, players gain some ghosts based on where they placed their workers, and then get to select which curse cards to take from the location in a turn order based on where players placed their workers. The location resets with new curse cards, and the workers get returned to the players, and the game continue to repeat like that. The interesting gameplay comes from figuring out which curse cards are best for you to bid on. Maybe the curse completes a set you have, or maybe it prevents your opponent from completing a set and leaving them stuck with many points. Hopefully this helps and I haven't wasted more of your time! Cheers.
@@BoardDownUnder Thanks much for your great reply. I was contemplating being a later backer for this game, so sought your preview video for more info. But your discussion seemed to cater to people who already know what the game is. (I.e., it came across more as a review rather than a preview), so without the context of knowing what the game is, much of your discussion didn't register with me. Plus it was late, so I came across a bit harsher than I had a right to. Anyway, thanks for the follow-on description. It's helped!
Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for the preview!
If you wanted to count cards, couldn't you just reveal the cards that are removed?
You're welcome, thanks for watching! The rulebook (as of us playing) specifically said to keep them hidden. We could house rule that they are revealed - but we try to give opinions based on the official rules. :)
@@BoardDownUnder That makes perfect sense :D
Nice review and vid - really well presented and produced. And even though it's not super important, it helps to see a local take on how this game plays. I'll definitely check out your other content.
Thank you! :) Hopefully you enjoy some of our other stuff
Hmm... You talked a lot about individual elements of the game, but never described what the game is, what it's about, nor what it looks like when set up. So despite the 12 mins of video, I'm still not sure what this game is.
Sorry we didn't provide enough of a holistic view here! Still finding our feet and learning as we go - it's comments like this that help us improve, so thank you for taking the time (and apologies again if we wasted yours!)
For what it's worth after the fact, the game is about children entering a haunted house, getting cursed and then needing to find a way to break that curse. The theme and narrative here isn't particularly critical to the gameplay though.
The game in a nutshell is almost an auction game, where each turn you bid for your chance to select a specific curse card from a location to complete certain sets that will let you reduce your overall points, and the cost of the bid is how 'deep' you place your worker to a location and how many ghosts you risk gaining as well.
It's a very straight forward game - you place a worker into one of three locations. When a location gets its 3rd worker placed in it, players gain some ghosts based on where they placed their workers, and then get to select which curse cards to take from the location in a turn order based on where players placed their workers. The location resets with new curse cards, and the workers get returned to the players, and the game continue to repeat like that. The interesting gameplay comes from figuring out which curse cards are best for you to bid on. Maybe the curse completes a set you have, or maybe it prevents your opponent from completing a set and leaving them stuck with many points.
Hopefully this helps and I haven't wasted more of your time! Cheers.
@@BoardDownUnder Thanks much for your great reply. I was contemplating being a later backer for this game, so sought your preview video for more info. But your discussion seemed to cater to people who already know what the game is. (I.e., it came across more as a review rather than a preview), so without the context of knowing what the game is, much of your discussion didn't register with me. Plus it was late, so I came across a bit harsher than I had a right to.
Anyway, thanks for the follow-on description. It's helped!