50 Reviews in 14 Minutes - with Tom Vasel
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- Is this even possible? Who would attempt such a thing? Tom Vasel, that's who.
Watch Tom as he reviews 50 games in only 14 minutes!
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Thanks for the quick reviews. It was entertaining to watch you speed through the games and hear some thoughts on all of them. Once you recover in a few months, you could do it again with a fresh batch of games. 🤣
i dont understand how anyone can have time to play these many games, even if it's your job to do so. tom is a machine.
You have to learn rules of them all
I mean, it's part of his job. If it was my job to play games, I'd probably manage to get more plays in too.
@@thepudgyninjait’s his job to review games, which is not the same thing as playing them. He’s running the entire dice tower, scheduling conventions, reviews, retreats, and cruises. It is impressive!
i feel like he's hiding his secret inside his hat. he could be a robot, or a mouse is controlling him.
Maybe Tom has a secret twin 😂
I think this should be a regular series. I really enjoyed the quick review a lot.
I'll do it again eventually.
@thedicetower it works as a quick "here's our initial thoughts and why". A lot of those games don't need a review now. You saying it's awful and you couldn't stand it says plenty.
Tom, you are not human. You reviewed these games faster than I could write down the names of those I was interested in further exploring. Hats off!
I'm a fast talker, helps here, I guess!
I think the hat was on the whole time.
Actually very useful for wanting to find something new but you don’t know what. I now have a list of what to keep my eye out for/ do some more research on. Thanks definitely appreciate this before Christmas.
Anyone else have the feeling that there are way too many board games coming out now days?
Seems like an over saturated market
yup, cant keep up. i'm only 2 years into the hobby and am already feeling fatigued.
No for me! There is a lot but you don't have to (and can't) play them all. I wouldn't want there to be only 50 movies coming out every year as an example... Play what you like and now you have more options!!
Depends on what you want
I’m a predominantly mid-heavy euro gamer and I don’t think there are too many of those
@@SAUPAYANMAZUMDAR I’ve been gaming now heavily since 2008. I love the hobby, but I’ve reached a point where I have a great game in nearly every genre, so not much replacement happens. I did buy ticket to ride legacy this year, as well as dune imperium. Bought pandemic legacy season zero as well. I’ve just reached a point where most games I think “yeah.. but I have another game that does that and I enjoy it just fine”.
Love this. A lot of times this is all I need to decide if I want to look deeper or not.
Thanks for the video! I found myself very interested in a bunch of them. It was fast but it felt like every game had at least a thoughtful and sincere phrase.
Thanks!
This was a masterful feat. Just remembering all those games and in such a quick time, wow.
thanks Tom! As an experienced gamer who knows your style and what I like, this was actually very useful. You said just enough about each game for me to do deeper research, or mostly not.
I’d love a “top 3” from a list that long of what you’d recommend people look into more if they have similar taste to yours - if you ever do this style of video again, just quick at the end.
I like how you Tom did this video. even if there not in depth reviews. just to get get them on people's radar is great.
The way the number of game releases keeps increasing, in five years time The Dice Tower will just be Tom doing this 24 hours a day.
Nobody else could do this so quickly but succinctly
I am really curious about Waterfall Park. I have Chinatown and am curious to see what the designer did to update / streamline the rules.
I would love to see this with a visual timer or some graphics on the screen and gamify it! Beat your high score 😂
Great idea this high-speed reviewing!!
Love this format. Bark Avenue I think was pretty fun best dog related game I have played not a big fan of Dog Park and others.
Thank you, loved hearing about all these games with a brief note on each ❤
Who is the publisher of the Six Teen/Sixteen game?
Thanks! You picked my interest on Pirate Tales :)
Is “Six Teen” the name of the game at 10:43? I can’t find any info on it.
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/267802/sixteen
I watched this video at 2x speed. So technically that's 50 reviews in 7 minutes :)
City of the Great Machine is a very good game, but there are definitely usability problems.
"Alpaca" has elements of take's that, for example when you steal cards from your opponent.
He does say Alpaca has elements of take that, and that's what he didn't like. Maybe 2x was a bit too fast ;)
@@JuliuszCovers maybe :)
With my ADHD, not only do I favor this format over the 1-game-in-2 -hours one, I actively love it! MOAR GAMES! FASTER!
agreed this is a pretty great format actually. maybe if just a bit less breathless with just room for one or two more ideas about each game, there are a lot of great thoughts packed in here tho!
money or youre bluffing if you had to choose one? love this style of rapid reviews!
I enjoyed it. Every game doesn't need a 20 minute review.
What is the company name of the game Six Teen? Having a hard time locating it online.
Yeah, i had a feeling that's how you'd feel on Age of Comics. It was one of my "most anticipated" and i do like it, but it's way more basic than even i thought it would be.
It's also the rare case in which i'd say you really do need the "Collector's Editon" with the additional modules. Without throwing a few modules it'll get stale pretty quick.
Still looking forward to a full review of it though.
Other than the "hard to see" aspect of City of Great Machine, anything else you found off with it? I bought it and excited to finally get it to the table. Reminds me of The Others, Attack on Titan, Not Alone vibes.
I haven't had difficulty with icons or anything. It's easier to learn and play than it appears. Now that I think about it, another player couldn't tell the difference between major and minor districts, at first. They are clearly distinct though.
The amount of new games can be overwhelming. My son and I have linited ourselves to 3 categories: once a year, the very best (this year Ark Nova); war games by our favourite designers (Thompson and Benjamin); and old second hand games that have been traded in, that are cheap and in good condition, but have gone out of favour. This way we have great fun picking and choosing, and then playing
Great job 💞 from Australia 😊
I like the vid. Might be a good format for lesser known games. I wrote down 5 that I want to check out.
Week in review will be fun, in other words will they ever get a rating?
Glad the Stifling Dark rulebook didn't pose any issues :) ❤
Always fun to watch Tom do reviews, glad to hear him being critical. one of my problems with the board game community is the FOMO BUY NOW! mentality. nobody can afford nor should they try to keep up with buying all of the games on the market.
Tom just secured his Guinness World Record.
Thank you for the information
looks like council of shadows was printed upside down
It looks like Tom doesn’t like Apiary, looking forward to the official review. This one is one of my fav 2023 games.
Quite a few other reviewers do as well. It seems to be pretty hit or miss with people.
@@grog3514I just hope that there will be someone from DC more favorable to this game, I know that many people are influenced by those reviews and I don’t want them to skip this one without even playing it.
I think he liked it, but didn’t love it, which is fine.
I’ll still wait for the full review from the rest of the team.
I quite enjoyed it myself, but yeah, I’ve seen a bunch of mixed or lukewarm reviews and I think the game is better than that.
Apiary is in my Meh category as I feel it can take a bit too long.
I don't see the reason for rushing through reviews.
3:37 you said what Eter is, but you forgot to actually review it
Good point! I enjoyed it, a nice little add to a tic-tac-toe type game.
Celtae should have been in the best game covers video you recently did.
Cangaceiros deserves a full review! But I'm biased by the theme...
I liked Council of Shadows at first, but then I played with someone who didn't care about the costs of the cards, just the effect. With that strategie he conquered all the best planetary systems, gtade colonies, got first player every turn and crushed me. Haven't played it since.
Description (game list) and timestamps!
Impressive mate!!
On 2x speed Tom does it in 7 minutes
I just watched that in 2x speed and it was even more impressive
are you going to attempt to cut up 50 snippets onto Dice Tower encore?
We are NOT.
How many hours a day are you reading rulebooks?
Love the speed
Nice work
That was good fun!
This kind of review style works fine for bad or mediocre games, but the ones in here he says are good, it just leaves me wanting to know more about why. Not exactly selling me on them if I don't learn anything about them; I'm more likely to remember them as something that wasn't worth the time for a full review, lumped in with a pile of 40-ish other games that weren't worth talking about.
Then you watch the full review...
This was crazy 😂
That was useful, don't feel you have to do full reviews of every game, want the interesting ones, the brilliant ones, the ones with buzz and the odd terrible one.if you just added your score out of 10 on the screen to this video (obviously hard to remember) then this would have been perfect and is a great catch up mechanism
One Way Street!
It's not "Geroni-moo" it's obviously "Geronimooooooo..." with the o drawn out. They just cut it off at two o's. It's also based on one of the most common urban legends. Lemmings don't actually jump off cliffs.
Blame Disney....
Chinatown already has streamlined rules...
Gotta be honest. Number 27 didn't shock me 😂
Not my Hens! I love that game. :)
Me too!
I watch videos on 2x speed so this way only 7 minutes for me! 😅
unless you put timestamps no one will find reviews these games
He can't be serious! It's never been done before
Ah I backed Pueblo 😢 Shame that once again Mojito Stufios seems to do a good job of making a game look good for the crowdfunding and then do a terrible job afterwards with lots of component issues
Time to stop backing games and just buy at retail then?
Lemmings moo, don't they?
Whiplash from speed of reviews!! :)
Or what if we die Rhado vs Tom who can review 10 games faster 😂
I made them even shorter. 2x speed!
I won, I skipped over this
your camera is just a bit too high!! You cut the games off!!! Otherwise awesome video thanks!
8:46 pretty sure it's not "Geroni-moo" like a cow moo-ing, but just Geronimo with a sustained "o" because they're falling. Still, bad/unclear choice for a title.
Mer-CUR-i-al
Hahaha - good job!
this will be weird... XD
Wowsers Mujito Studios again???
Reprinting great games only to have an overconvoluted production with functional issues?? That makes me so sad... Lost Code and now Pueblo?? Man oh man...
why though
I like the format, but did not enjoy the frantic speech. I'm ok with quick reviews but this was stress inducing to watch.
lol have you watched Alex over at BoardGameCo?
@@gozzywozzy485 yes but his speech is naturally that fast and he takes pauses and rambles, I enjoy his channel. This was forced franticness. It's fine, I was just stressed watching it cause it felt unnecessary. The video could have been fine 5 mins longer if he spoke in his normal cadence. Just a minor nit pick.
@@thereal4579 And people were complaining that I go too slow! Can't win either way. :)
@@thedicetower You? Too Slow? Nah, your normal cadence is why I watch this channel. Clear, concise, don't always agree, but you are a natural at teaching and communicating. The franticness you forced yourself into for this type of "timed" video seemed arbitrary, but hey Thanks for the content and the comments in the videos. I am just 1 person with an opinion.
I really dislike the thumbnail for this video.😅
Same here!
Could spend more time on each game - maybe one game per minute