Septima Review - Mindclash Brings Witchcraft To The Table
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
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Septima is a competitive, highly interactive strategy game of witchcraft. As the leader of your coven, you must prove your worth in the town of Noctenburg to become the successor of Septima, the High Witch. Practice your craft and gain wisdom by collecting herbs, brewing potions, healing the townsfolk, mastering charms and rescuing your fellow brothers and sisters from the trials. But beware: magic, even if used for good, invokes suspicion in the townsfolk...
Simultaneous action selection with positive player interaction: Septima’s central mechanism revolves around the simultaneous, secret selection of one of nine Action cards each turn: Move, Collect, Brew, Heal, Recruit, Plea, Chant, Rite and Remember. Each Action gets a powerful bonus if it is chosen by multiple players, but performing them together also raises suspicion in the townsfolk and attracts the attention of the Witch Hunters. Decisions of when to do a shared action (and who to do it with) adds a fresh, semi-cooperative touch to a competitive game, and lots of player interaction.
Rescue witches to build your Coven: Heal, enthrall or convince the townsfolk and amass enough support to sway the periodic Witch Trials in your favor. If the hostile witnesses are outvoted, the convicted witch is absolved and joins the coven that rescued them. You start small but you can grow your coven to up to four witches this way, each with their own personality and special ability to help your cause. Reckless Witches caught by Witch Hunters are also put to trial, so with enough support from the townsfolk, even witches from other, less careful players’ coven can end up in yours.
Accessible, intuitive and familiar: Septima is Mindclash Games’ most accessible title to date, with beautiful, hand-drawn art style by Villő Farkas and with the character art of Barbara Bernát, wooden components and intuitive, theme-inspired mechanisms. It is very quick to teach and set up, and takes less than 2 hours to play, even with four players.
BGG Link - boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3...
TimeStamps:
0:00:00 - Overview
0:12:30 - Ease of Play
0:13:45 - Player Count
0:14:01 - What I Like
0:17:42 - What I Don't Like
0:20:30 - What I Can See Others Not Liking
0:21:48 - Final Thoughts
0:24:20 - Recommendations
5.0 - My absolutely favorite games. You can pry them out of my cold dead hands.
4.5 - Love this game! At the same time missing something that would make it a 5. Could be hard to table, lacking variability, a little light, etc.
4.0 - Really great game, almost always keeping, although has meaningful complaints as to what takes away from the experience.
3.5 - Really enjoyed, don't love it, may lose out to better games but the idea of never playing again is a bit sad.
3.0 - A good game, would play and suggest with the right people, if I never played it again wouldn't lose any sleep.
2.5 - A game I'd play again , but will never suggest it myself
2.0 - A game I don't want to play again
1.5 - A game I can't find any reason to recommend
1.0 - A game that is just bad.
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Not sure if you will see this Alex, but the embargo for content was Thursday of this week, not Tuesday :)
I was told this was launching today, I just double checked my email, I didn't get any update on this. I'll look into it.
well then at least some had a little head start :)
game still remains nice
Pretty sure coven is pronounced like oven, by the by.
Theme and art are very unique, I'm into it. I'll probably pick this up at retail down the line.
Have been interested in this one. The theme is unusual. Thanks for the impressions.
Thanks for the overview. I really appreciate how you approach covering a game. I was interested in this, but a lot of your comments showed me that I probably wouldn't enjoy the experience, even though a lot of the mechanisms look interesting. My wallet is definitely happy that I'll be skipping this. lol.
Thanks for the review
Thank you for the overview and impressions! Will you do a playthrough at some point?
Love your shirt and how it matches the box
Love the shirt! Where do you buy your shirts from? Last couple videos had some amazing shirt art.
Such a great, balanced review. Do you think that strictly at the two player count the negotiation mechanic wouldn’t have a negative impact in your view?
Would love to hear an update video once you get more plays of it
Hi Alex ! I've you tried the solo mode of Septima ? As a solo player, I'm trying to find out if it's solid ! Thank you !
Thanks for the review. Based on other things you’ve said The Gallerist and/or Kanban might line up very well with your interests
Have you tried Lisboa? I am trying to decide on my first Lacerda game.
Nice review !
Thanks :)
Hopefully this will give you the idea to try out the other games, Trickerion, Cerebria, Anachrony, Perseverance...ect, Even though I love the other games, this being a new designer, I will have to watch it more closely. Thanks for the overview and first impressions.
Theme is amazing, art is amazing, solo mode by David which is a good addition, amazing component quality, im sooo sad 50$ shipping for ROW
I liked it when we demoed it, i did wonder how long the game ends up as we only did 1 season (5 turns)
Love the art and theme, iffy on some of the gameplay aspects. How it scales to 2p will probably determine if I pick this up at retail down the road
I just read the rules once but regarding your negative point on a player never matching with the other two in a 3 player game, isnt there a chance to also match with the Septima?
Just my thought.
This is what happened to my daughter in our three player game. Me and my wife matched like 6 turns in a row and she didn’t and got left behind on the ritual board. But she came back at the end by focusing on other things
Oh wow nice
I can tell based on your overview, that this is the most accessible Mind Clash game. Mind Clash games have many more mechanics then this game does.
What would your extrapolation be toward 2 player gameplay, with your experience and vast knowledge you must be able to make an educated guess🤪
Have you tried Anachrony and Trickerion from Mindclash. They are very nice games.
At the last Gaming Weekend (55 People), preseverance was played quite often, but did not get everyone on the tables. Seems to be good, but not brilliant.
Not feeling the gameplay for Septima. Theme is interesting, artwork isn't working for me, and now I don't think the gameplay is working for me either.
I think I'll wait on this one, see what players say when they get it. So many games are getting reprints when they do well.
Me, at 7:10: "Uhh... Can you repeat all that?"
That looks like a game made to be played at 4. 3 players probably don't offer the table talk and enough opportunities to choose which cards to copy and gain most of out your actions.
disregarding the theme, play style, etc, which would be more worth the price? This game, or Skyrise? I'm torn between the two. Septime seems like a game with deeper gameplay, but seems like there's a lot going on at once, which seems like it's just a part-creep without adding much, while Skyrise seems a bit too light for the price (as you need to include VAT+shipping).
my EXACT conundrum! Septima looks like it has more "game" but Skyrise looks sooo damn good but just kinda too light. i think Septima will be the better game but i think would rather not miss out on the collectors edition of Skyrise than the screenprinted pieces from Septima...
I'm at the point where there's 2 companies that I'll simply buy from on release: Mindclash Games and Awaken Realms.
This looks like a beautiful complex game. I'll have to play Perseverance first though ;)
Enjoy them :)
How /where can i buy this?
It was on Kickstarter, just ended. You should be able to late pledge.
Mid weight game?
Pass.
Why I have a feel that if behind there was no Mindclash Games it will be 3 and no 3.5? It happens to me when I like some producer to give more credits...
Oh I don't yet have an attachment to mindclash. I haven't played any of the games enough to know. But no, definitely a 3.5... There's a lot of inter weaving mechanics that are very solid.
It's criminal you haven't played Trickerion....
Literally every video I saw from you, you gave the game a 3.5/5. xD
It's for sure my most common rating but probably only around 50% my ratings.
@@BoardGameCo It seems like I'm good a picking those games than. ;)
It seem interesting but one thing I know of Turczi games no matter how interesting they may seem they will always feel mechanical, robotic, and dry when I actually play it
Except it's not a Túrczi game 😛
@@fl4v10fb One thing I know of Mindclash games all their games are Turczi games at their core :)
I love the theme but the trailer made this game look... overly complex and finnicky. Just a big wobbly stack of systems.
Not only the theme, this look likes a lot to broom service, the difference is that the broom service is a pick up and delivery, and this changed the mechanic a little bit but with the same feelings. And broom service looks like a very much more streamlined game than septima. The feelings I had with your video was pretty much the same, i know they are different games, but looks like this one had a lot from broom service.
They changed some mechanics of the scoring, but the core mechanism is the same, the theme is almost the same, and the conception of walk on a map to do things is almost the same feeling as you walk in the map to deliver stuff, but not as streamlined.
how have you never played a mindclash game???,,,, lol
The theme kills it for me- any other theme and I’d be all in on it, but my wallet breathes a sigh of relief. This theme also killed Witchstone for me- it’s become popular lately
I feel the exact same way. This theme is an instant turn off for me
Funny thing is the theme makes it an insta back for me. I’m glad it’s not another sci-fi setting.
Lol. I think it's really odd to look at a game that is so tied to its theme and decide that you would like it with another theme. How do you even do that?
Really what big witch games exist? At least is not generic fantasy, scifi, or merchants game.
@@roseability86 Agreed 100% The theme is what turns me off from the game completely, but I don't wish it was re-themed. It's just not a game for me which is fine. Not every game appeals to everyone
I really dislike the theme and occultism in board games
Noted. I like it. Isn't it great that there are games for everyone?