Tesseract Review - It Appeared Out Of Nowhere!
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
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The Tesseract appeared in our skies six days ago, over the exact magnetic north of the planet. It was the size of a city block. Since that time it has been condensing, collapsing upon itself. It can now fit into the palm of your hand.
Our world’s best minds must now find a way to contain and control the reactions of this alien artifact, or its exponentially increasing destructive power will remove our planet from existence, reconfiguring our space and time to the extra-dimensional needs of its creators. Can you and your team work together to shut down the Tesseract, or will humankind simply be a blip in the grand scheme of the universe? Time will tell.
Tesseract is a compelling, cooperative dice-manipulation game for 1 to 4 players. The focal point of the game is a block of 64 dice, the Tesseract, which sits at the center of the board on a raised platform. Players will remove cubes to place in their individual labs, transfer them as needed to others, adjust the cube's values and, importantly, isolate the cubes into the containment matrix, neutralizing them.
To Contain a cube a player must have in their lab 3 or more cubes all of one value (a Set) or in sequence (a Run), either all of one color or having none of the same colors. By filling the containment matrix completely (24 total unique dice) they will stop the reaction and win the game. But if the Tesseract has its last cube removed beforehand - or if 7 breaches occur, the game is lost and our world ceases to exist.
Asymetric character abilities include a passive, 'always on' ability and a unique action that is only available to that player. Research cards earned during play help give players an edge, as do the even more powerful Containment cards, unlocked from the matrix.
Tesseract is a very challenging co-op game, with lots of replay value built into the number of characters and various threat platforms which govern the difficulty. The game scales remarkably well and has a solo mode that is every bit as engaging. The tension mounts quickly as the Tesseract sheds cubes at the end of every player's turn, primes them and potentially causes Breaches to occur, bringing us closer to disaster.
BGG Link - boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3...
TimeStamps:
0:00:00 - Overview
0:07:45 - Ease of Play
0:09:00 - What I Like
0:10:55 - What I Don’t Like
0:12:18 - What I Can See Others Not Liking
0:13:00 - Final Thoughts
0:14:39 - 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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Great review Alex!! I'm glad you're enjoying the puzzle, and totally agree with your critical thoughts - I share them! I have a few game-play variants that I'll post on BGG that might extend the longevity for you. Thanks for the review!
Seems like one bump to the table would make that Tesseract fall apart. (or one curious cat)
I can't speak for the cat, but it does stand up to bumps
I saw that reverse alchemy that you pulled between your intro to the actual review!
Spoiler....I've had a component shift of one kind or another in nearly every review I do between the intro and actual video :)
For difficulty of the boards I think of it as 4 levels 1-4 (5-8 are just alternates on the reverse sides, but no change in difficult from sides 1-4)
Yeah that's exactly right. 5-8 were supposed to be labelled A, B, C, D.
So, it doesn't seem like a "play it several times in a row" due to the repetition, but it seems like one of those that sits on the shelf and can always be brought down for a game night. Seems open to expansions with special dice or different cards. It appears like just a good puzzle to solve with friends. Thanks for the review, I think I'm going to go ahead and add it to my collection
Nice t-shirt! Can you please share a link? Thank you!!
Like I said in the livestream, I have been loving this game but yeah I can totally agree with the caveats and possible dislikes. I don't think this will be one that we pull out every other week forever, but it does provide that solid hour of puzzling that is very fun with the player powers and base variety. I'm also hoping it will be a good one for an intro coop like pandemic but with a different theme.
Yep, I definitely very much enjoy it. I just don't know if it has the longevity that the loop has for me
Great review. At 7min 50sec in you mentioned what sounded like "This game does have a diez implementation...". I couldn't quite catch that. What did you say? And what is that implementation?
Dized:)
I'm a printer, and that difficulty scaling definitely seems like a step was missed in the printing process. Pretty cool game though, great quick explanation.
Yes! An oversight but one that might throw people off
@@BoardGameCo Exactly, I'm thankful you pointed it out here. This one has recently been brought in to my gaming group and that info will likely save us some frustration.
Did you take a breath during this at all?
This game is definitely not compatible with households held under the murder mittens of a terror feline. 😖😁
Distract them with the “alluring container of fits-sits” (aka the empty box lid)
@@SenseiJae Yeah, this approach has been exhausted a long time ago. Unless the lid is submerged in a pure catnip solution, a pile of dice that should remain intact is way more fun.
Please talk faster
I try!