Sleeping Gods Board Game Review -Thoughts and Experiences with 5 Tips for New Players
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- After twenty hours exploring The Wandering Seas Libby and Julian share their thoughts on Red Raven's Sleeping Gods.
Stick about after the review for five top tips for players new to the game!
Will you awaken the gods?
It’s 1929. You are Captain Sofi Odessa and her crew lost at sea in a strange world.
Aboard the steamship Manticore, you must work together to survive by exploring mysterious islands, battling creatures, and meeting the world’s inhabitants. Along the way, seek out the totems of the gods.
Wake the gods and perhaps you’ll be able to return home.
00:15 Introduction
26:17 Five Tips for New Players
30:36 Conclusion
Music:
He's a Parrot, Pirates of the Quarantine , The Wellerman (karaoke)
All by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License
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I love the idea of giving tips to new players for games you love, to help them get the most out of the game. Specially with a game like this which seems to be more about the narrative than the challenge you overcome, it's good to have a leg up.
I wonder if this is something that publishers should be doing more of.
But thanks for doing a great job of it!
So pleased you like it 😀 Yeh we thought we might include this more often in our videos which talk about game play, we don't like to put a rating number on games as everyone likes different things, and there are plenty that do that out there. But we thought this might be a fun extra to include. We often make mistakes so plenty to learn from!! 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for an enjoyable discussion and in depth thoughts about the game. Loved hearing you got yourselves "in a spot of bother". Now it's an adventure! :)
Thanks so much for subscribing, we really appreciate it. Haha, yes it definitely was an adventure, one where we were looking for the nearest port on several occasions 🤣 Have you played it?
@@BoxedMeeples We have! Once. My wife and I played through one campaign last summer. It was so good. Like you, we found it really immersive, engaging and enjoyable. We have wanted to get back to it for a second run through (we think the game will easily support 3 or 4 without too many repeats). However, the space and time commitment have prevented us from doing so yet. We don't have a gaming only table. So we had to eat on trays while the game was going on. :)
We hope to have space for a (small) separate gaming table soon. Sleeping Gods would likely be back on our play list then.
@@WendyGa Yes totally understand that. We are lucky that we could put it inside our coffee table and leave it out without disturbing the day to day of the house too much. We have made trays from some IKEA frames by adding foam and material which we use for sofa games. We used those for our crew members and command tokens etc then the map, boat, key words and collected items were all in the coffee table. So that all worked quite well for us. Hope you manage to get a small table soon! 😀
As a Ryan Laukat fan, I'm glad to see you enjoyed your time with the game! ✌️
Might have to look a bit closely at some of his other titles now!
@@BoxedMeeples That sounds like a good idea! 😁
@@SirThecos Libby has played most and loves them, but I have just played Sleeping Gods and Near and Far at the moment, so there are quite a few to get through
@@BoxedMeeples For sure - Near and Far is still missing for me but I really love Above and Below. Also, Megaland and Roam are great as well. And there's many more I need to try. 😁
Libby has dabbled in IsleBound and enjoyed it
Thank you for an honest and insightful review. I have played through more than one campaign solo, and I really want to teach it to others and experience the cooperative aspect of it. Perhaps the hardest reason to bring it to the table, especially for a group, is its length, but the captivating story has kept me wanting more. Even the multiple endings, for me, are less important than the adventures. It's about the journey, not the destination. Sleeping Gods is a totally engaging experience that is my new favorite.
Yes we really enjoyed exploring about and the characters and challenges along the way. We were only saying the other day that we would love to dive back in and have another adventure. Have you found the length of each of your solo games of it to be similar?
Yes for a group I think you would have to set aside several sessions to complete it, which can be difficult at times
Well, my very first play-through I mis-read the rules, and after the final boss battle, which I lost, rather than resetting and battling again, I reset and started over. Basically I played two campaigns back to back, with the second one having all the level ups from the first. It made the second go around much easier, to be sure, but I wondered why the game had to be so long. Joke on me, it didn't.
Otherwise, my other campaign experiences were similar in length. Perhaps the lessons I learned from the first campaign (one could say two campaigns) better prepared me to defeat the final boss the next time.@@BoxedMeeples
Very thoughtful, intelligent discussion about the game. Thank you! Would like to see the game as you describe it rather than watching people talk, though.
Thanks so much for your kind words
We actually do our game reviews in quite different format now. More game footage heavy, shorter and focusing on our 5 reasons why we like it
It's hard to show too much of the game without spoilers. Other reviews of this game avoid showing much of anything, so I'm glad that there are a few shots of the characters and map from time to time.
Just finished my first play through and I loved every minute of it!
How did you do? Ready to dive in to another play through immediately haha!
@@BoxedMeeples my final score was all over the place (I was mildly incoherent as I stayed up far too late to finish). But I ended with 8 totems and the frog ending (if you know what I mean). I’m pretty sure I messed up the rules on exploring some of the towns though… i was thinking I could use one explore action and do everything I could do in a town at once, but I noticed late last night that at least some of the actions say “return to ship” instead of prompting to go back to the beginning of the town story? So I might have gotten some extra actions in accidentally?
That being said, I had an absolute blast and can’t wait to get back into it!
@@daniellebackus819 if you enjoyed playing the occasional rule slip up every now and then can't be too bad.
Will you dive back in for a second play through, leave it for a while or never play it again ?
@@BoxedMeeples I’m already whining to my husband about how I want to play it again, but I need to go to bed. So… I will be playing again very soon.
@@BoxedMeeples how many times have you played it?
Folko??
Gosh I haven't been called that in a very long time
We are really struggling to find the time to dig into this game!
Yeh, it is tricky, we were lucky to be able to leave it set up and go to it as and when possible. I think if we had to pack away each time we would still be going through it now
@@BoxedMeeples yea, I'm thinking it'll be easier to pull that off in the summer. Because I want to marathon it over a couple of days, also just keeping it set up on the table.
@@eVanDiesel good plan, I think if you leave big gaps between play it's easy to forget what happened where and what you want to do next, even with good note taking Hahaha
@@BoxedMeeples we ran into that exact problem playing 7th Continent. We'd wait to long to resume a game and just reset it. Eventually, we stopped coming back to it. :(
@@eVanDiesel oh thats a shame, hopefully can plan something so that doesn't happen again with this one 🤞