One Deck Dungeon Review - with The Chubby Meeple
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- The Chubby Meeple takes a look at One Deck Dungeon, from Asmadi Games!
00:00 - Introduction
00:36 - Game overview
08:57 - Final thoughts
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Thank you so much - I bought this game and was struggling through the rule book a bit (there's a lot of info!) Once I'd read the whole booklet it was super useful to see your tutorial and it could all be pieced together and finally make sense!
So far I'm enjoying this game solo. :)
This looks really cool. Saw that they have some expansions and stuff too. Definitely gonna check this out. Thanks for the review!
I'll have to check this one out for part of my solo collection. Thanks for the video.
The expansion & reprint are on Kickstarter right now.
It does look pretty fun, and there is an expansion pack or two. Did either of you end up getting it? What are your thoughts?
@@SignOfTheTimes008 Ive got both.. great little games, can be a bit challenging and repetitive at times obviously but as something to pull down when ya just wanna throw dice around and have a bit of fun for a couple of hours..its perfect.
@@manic2360 They seem to have great reviews. I remember asking the developers why there was no males, but they went silent. Maybe some jerks in the past pestered them about it and were rude, dunno. Thing is, when I played Hero Quest I thought it could use a female character and created a female Paladin with her own ability cards. I like a mix, otherwise it feels lopsided and weird. But I think I can over look it and give it a try.
Doesn't seem like a lot of decision making, but still looks fun. Something I can play on my own or with my 6 year old daughter who loves rolling dice
You forgot to play the level cost for the encounters. Each dungeon level has a die cost for an encounter. Good summary otherwise.
He also forgot to spend the two time when he did the trap.
He also forgot that with that dungeon he has to spend 5 time at the start of each floor.
Please do a review for the expansion! :)
As part of this particular dungeon, you should have burned an additional 5 time at the beginning of this level, due to the 'Hall of Statues' effect for a total of 7 time. This happens at the beginning of each level on this dungeon.
Yup and he didn't burn time when "fighting" the trap.
And he didn't pay the level cost for the encounter.
Wow I love the gameplay here. Looks fun even alone. I just wish the artwork was a bit different- it isn’t for me. Combine these mechanics with Boss Monster art and I’d be thrilled.
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This looks really fun! Looking for simple games like mini rogue and this ticks the boxes
Big thank you for the clear overview of this game and especially for emphasizing how nice it is to have a strong female only cast of characters for a change. I really want my daughter to see strong female characters in games, so that she can get a real sense of immersion and enjoy the games just like her older brother. It makes all the difference. And my son doesn't mind at all playing a female character.
Where'd you get that shirt though
Thanks for explaining this! I’ve been researching this awesome game and there was some stuff I didn’t understand
4:39 you also have to pay 2 more time if you choose "clobber logs" action).
It just a game characters will be characters it doesn't matter. Plus you forgot to mention the dungeon challenges you have to fill those up alongside the monsters
Yup, plus he forgot to spend two time when he encountered the trap. N00b!
Nice review. I love this game :)
Amazing 👍
What elder Sign should have been.
I like this game, bough it two days before - It is NOT BRUTAL enough for my taste, and the mechanics should`ve been be more... balanced. But anyways it`s fun. Space Hulk: Death Angel is still my number one solo game.
Played this numerous times and it never occurred to me that all the heroes were female. Not for or against this as it has no real affect on the game, just a curiosity that I hadn't noticed before. I checked the expansion Kickstarter and all the four (out of 5) heroes they have released so far are female as well.
Nice review, though as others have said, you forgot to cover the dungeon challenge space during encounters.
Wow was just scrolling through amazon and found it gonna have to pick it up!!!only about $20 USD!!!
Hope you picked it up for $20 cause it goes for about $80 now.
@@Chekmate99 Where? I’ve seen this game float around Amazon and other websites and never seen it more than $30, and 90% of the last two years it’s been $25
The game looks really interesting, just wished it was for more players, as in up to 4.
If you buy two copies you can play with 4. There's a section in the rules that accounts for that situation.
Or the expansion. The expansion can be played on ownit's own, or combines with the base game to play with 4 players.
Game looks cool. Thanks for the review. I think inclusivity would be if it included both male and female champions. Not a big deal, but I wouldn't say it's a win for inclusivity.
Appreciate the in-depth review - agree with you regarding the female characters - I would love to see more games with similar female characters. I was considering getting this one - your review convinced me!
Is this Mark Hamill?
Jeez, this comments section is so embarrassing
Need some A.I. Robot characters.
Lol everyone triggered by the all female cast.
As they should be. I don't usually buy games that are all men either.
PhilGerb93 Lol wait why "should" they be?
@@matshepherd118 they "should" be if they truely want gender equality. Though being triggered over a board game is probably too much lol.
Seriously, people getting triggered over a board game, somebody call the whambulance.
They should be because its sexist. You never see board games with all male characters for that reason.
women have to play males almost ALL the damn time. So its nice to see.
In what game? All video games and board games have male and female characters now.
Want a recommendation for a good iron? :)
Do you iron your t-shirts? Also, the mic is causing creases.
"X-only" is not inclusive. It's just one thing (not that there's anything wrong with that).
Most games like these are all-male anyway, I don't mind that they are all female in this one at all. It's all fantasy anyway.
Would anyone have even noticed anything unusual if it was all dudes? No? That's why making a game with all women is equality. It's a small way to push back against the thinking of men as the default.
It's inspired by the fact that males are most generally the warriors and adventures and undertakers of physically perilous (or arduous) things. This is considered a default, for good reason. It doesn't have to be in a fantasy world, but it's an understandable thing.
Equality schmequality. Doesn't matter whether doing all-female is inclusive or exclusive. It's a small boardgame, and this is a tiny artistic choice they made, and it's totally fine. If a person gets upset by this then he really need to have himself checked by a psychologist or something.
@@noctiferrise8573
Is it though? In these fantasy worlds where people are magical or magic augments their strength/abilities, or where females of one race may be stronger then most other humanoid races males, etc.
In these worlds it doesn't make sense for them to not full fill many of what some people would consider to be "male adventuring roles". In addition, even females from weaker fantasy races would be inspired to break home life when meeting powerful women from other races or upon hearing their tales and deeds.
Subject A: "Who cares about the gender of characters? It's just a game. You're playing a character, not yourself. I don't even think about it."
also Subject A: "I was interested in this game until I saw it was all women."
just give player a choice in character options. that's the real solution to the problem. representation primarily matters in curated experiences, and tabletop is not about a curated experience to begin with. it's about a player-adapted one. the gender of the characters is and should be a player choice matter.
Game seems sound, though. I'm not a fan of the point but ultimately the game is enticing enough that I don't mind it too much.
They could have made it more gender balanced.
Agreed. This game isn't inclusive at all
Honestly, the coolest thing about the game is the color of the dice. Art work, meh. Excitement, meh. Doesn’t seem that strategical. Mostly luck. Please be more inclusive and make the next expansion pack to have heroes that are gray, shapeless blobs.
Why is every character a female?
Why do most fantasy games depict art with all white human beings in cities full of different species. No black, brown, or Asian looking humans.
I don't see the people who complain about an all woman cast complain about this phenomenon, ever.
They felt like it.
@@grimsong2237 in anime, that's a trope. they're not quite "white" so much as they're engaging in something called mukokuseki, which is the deliberate exclusion of ethnic features unless a character is a foreigner to the main cast. Usually characters in the setting who aren't japanese are given blonde hair if white, or some other visible feature.
Only applies to anime, but it's an interesting idea.
Because its sexist.
Just wondering why all women characters? I guarantee that if any fantasy game that came out with only male characters, there would be an outrage of complaints from the politically correct. Why is it fine one way and not the other? It's like saying "reverse racism", when in fact racism is just racism. I'm so tired of double-standards.
SJW pandering, I was interested in this game until I saw this. I won't reward gender discrimination from either camp.
There are like a million fantasy games with all-male characters, or just one female character, with no backlash whatsoever...
Either pandering, or personal discretion. Either way, I honestly don't care, and I'm actually all for games that break out of established tropes. However, I did find it rather disingenuous for him to call it an "inclusive" game when it's exclusive to one gender.
Sethala I think he meant its inclusive in the sense that it tries to bring woman into the hobby which is allready largely male dominated. With that said, having equal male and female would have been better, Aeons End setting a good example of inclusivity with having lots of powerful male and female characters.
Bullshit, most games have either a single female character for every 4-5 male character, or no female characters at all. There is never an outrage. Sounds more like YOU are the one attempting to start an outrage, over there being no male characters...
Clever mechanics. . . Turned off by the single gender thing. . . How hard would it have been to have 2 of each, or 50/50 split for male/female characters?
Imagine if being opposite... What a world we're living in
Just curious, are you also turned off by board games that feature only male characters?
You like powerful masculine women? Low-T
@@potterman28wxcv why would it be off-putting for only males? Men are designed for dangerous jobs. Or are you gonna argue that men and women are equal?
Cool to see people with common sense that notice this woke/feminist propaganda being shoved on our throats even in board games and disagreeing with it.
100% female isn’t inclusive. Do you not know what that word means?
Please pace yourself dude, or edit the video, it is horrible to hear you fast for air every 4 sentences.
Sorry. I hated this game. I find the idea of flipping cards over needlessly to be a horrible mechanic. Let's take the "easy" dungeon in this game for example. You have to flip 5 cards over just to start. Then, you have to flip 2 more cards over to explore. On top of that, you have to flip another 2 cards over for your first encounter. You've just flipped over 9 cards before you've even started to play. And you have to do this every freaking time you go down a level.
Not only that, the game balance is severely out of whack when it comes to the monsters. It makes no sense to be throwing 4th level creatures at players who are 1st level. When you design a dungeon, you don't throw a Beholder against your 1st level players. I find quite often, that I'll play the game and I will be face to face with 4 4th level creatures in the dungeon when I am just a lowly 1st level. Yeah. I'm going to have fun with that.
I know that there is a campaign mode where your character gets stronger over time but it means losing countless games to get there. To me, that's not much fun.
I showed the game to my gaming buddy and we played a couple of 2 player games and he agreed with me on all the points I made.
Orlor the point of the flipping mechanic is that you don't go through the same cards every level.
If it didn't have that, every level would be basically the same cards in a different order.
I agree that flipping over cards to "burn time" is kinda pointless. Why not just say, "for dungeon level one have a deck of 20 cards, level two takes 25 cards," etc. Even if all the dungeons have the same number of cards you just tell them to either split the full deck into equal parts or reshuffle before each level and deal the cards needed for that level. If I get this game that is most likely what I'm going to do.
The flipping mechanic allows you to have variety in the dungeon. You have to flip 5 off the bat for the Dragon's Cave because it's forcing you to have less of a deck to go through each floor, which simultaneously put you in less peril but also gives you less opportunity to level up if you're not careful with how you spend your actions. If you want less encounters, then you can spend time to explore after each encounter and less time opening doors. If you want more opportunities to get loot, then you want to open as many doors as possible before you "explore" again.
The game is a Roguelike, so random enemy elements are part of it. If you're level 1 and don't want to go up against that level 4 enemy you flipped over, then just flee. Your only consequence then is that you have one less door option later on until you finally fight them or descend.
I played this game at a convention over the weekend and promptly bought it. I've played it three times so far (twice solo and once with a partner), and even though I think the rules could have been written a bit better, I've been having a blast with it and so did my friend. I'm sorry that it wasn't a good fit for you.
Tbf, it's an analogue version of a roguelike. One of the hallmarks of a roguelike is that sometimes, you are just outmatched and lose. Also, as the reviewer notes, part of the effect of burning time is that certain decisions may make it easier to complete an encounter, but reduces the size of the dungeon, which in turn reduces the total encounters and in turn reduces the resources you get, making the game more difficult in the long run. In this way, your decisions have actual consequences that affect later game states. Spend too much time to use your skills and defeat an encounter, and you might not end up with enough power to beat the boss. While YMMV with how much you like the gameplay, it's a pretty elegant way to simulate a roguelike dungeon crawl.
I was disappointed when I saw that there was no male characters to choose from.
I like my games to actually be fair when it come to gender equality, not hypocritical ;)
Didn't stop me from buying the game though ! It's great.
Game looks awesome. I'd buy it but all the characters are girls, and that's stupid. I'll hold on to my money. 👍
The warrior is obviously trans. Fighting for her right to be male.
what does it matter with girl characters? Girls play only boy characters all the time. Your just stupid and sexist
triggered by a cartoon woman on a card.. jesus!..wait till you meet the real thing
@@manic2360 As long as red pill, no problem
art turned me off, strong powerful, lol.