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Has anyone in Europe been able to find an English language retail copy yet?
Reminds me of Anno 2070.
The game idea is interesting. But I'd like to see some mechanism that makes cooperation dificult. Perhaps adding a ecnomy system, or individual player objectives that get in the way of helping each other. So that you have to balance working together with the others, while still trying to advance your own agenda.
Man, that's probably one of your most powerful video to date. Inspiring (like Daybreak seemingly want us to feel) and empowering.
Thank you for this review. We picked this up and played at four players today. We embraced the fundamental fiction as you suggested.
I can say without hesitation that it was one of, if not the, greatest co-op game experience our group has ever had.
Each decision felt consequential and tight, we had to really communicate to create synergies, and we found ourselves saying things like “we have to go all in on getting rid of this industry… Even if that puts some communities at risk.” Not typical table talk.
We think this game is a masterpiece. Thank you for brining it to our attention.
Interesting how they package it as attainable IF the world can be motivated and work together. Which is an IF that is purely theoretical. We had a good run.
Such a shame that hope for the future seems to be the best path forward, I was hoping that raging anger at all the greed would get us there.
Are the players asimmetric? I feel like part of the "cooperation fiction" feeling weird is also all players being equal. The 4 different "factions" mentioned are completely different in terms of carbon emissions and natural resources available. The contrast between a country like the US or China producing the highest carbon footprint, versus Latin America (part of "the rest of the world") having LITERALLY the Amazon we talk so much about (and Lithium)
This is a reminder of how great this channel is. This is a board game review but really it's so much more than that. I'd never heard of this game but I might pick it up now because the art design and aesthetics look clean and really well done and the central concept of the game is genius frankly. This is the kind of co-op game that deserves to be a mainstream hit like Pandemic.
I really enjoyed this review! Looking forward to playing my copy.
While the theme doesn't excite me ( it doesn't put me off either) the mechanics look interesting and I like the ability to vary the difficulty. Design is also clean making it easy to see what's what. I think I'll be buying this one.
This game mostly shares its theme with Gigawatt, which I really enjoy. Gigawatt has a lot fewer additional theme, focusing almost exclusively on supply/demand and on emissions, but it changes the feel of it by making it competitive. While I really like that Daybreak is cooperative and I plan on giving it a shot, the cynical grumpy man in me likes that painfully accurate depiction of Gigawatt that it is a competitive race about saving your own ass and making money.
That being said while Gigawatt really nails the intricacies of the energy transition, I feel Daybreak does a far better job on the theme of actually stopping climate change.
Probably my fave games of the last 6 months. Thanks for the clever review!
This was an utterly brilliant and powerful review! I have a copy coming to review myself and I cannot wait! Thank you for your genuine passion on climate change too that was so good to see
I now strangely feel both depressed and hopeful at the same time. Never knew a board game review would move me.
Am I the only one who wants to see a nastier version of this game? One where everyone loses if emissions reach 2 degrees higher but you will personally lose if your country produces less energy/makes less money than the other countries? I think the idea of a game being cooperative in lose condition but competitive in win condition would capture the state our world is actually in and help us understand why we’re stuck in this rut
Bravo~♡
You've given me hope for my next replay. A "next play" was already planned, meaning, I definitely wanted to give this game some other tries but… and you've summed it up pretty clearly at the beginning but for some reason I didn't really realized it during our first play, it starts fast, brutally fast, that's obvious, but because of that, it ends relatively fast and equally brutally. For us, it came almost as a surprise, it was anticlimactic (no pun intended). Like, omg omg omg, done… it fell flat… not the gameplay.. the story arc.. the narrative.
Perhaps, pointing out that, from the get go, in four turn we loose the game, this would set the expectation for the players and make a difference. Also, it's possible that it was our cards combination and the way the crisis came out that made it feel that way. We won our first game, it was a challenge but not that much, perhaps that was it.
In any case, you've given me hope for our next game.
I love your reviews. Definitely Ted Talk worthy.
The other side to the fume covered Amazon van ( the contractors in their non-descript vehicles) being intentionally provided the most inefficient navigation system which forces them to drive hampered routes so that they can never meet efficiency goals for packages being delivered quickly because Amazon would have to pay them a bonus for it. This is a thing.
The documentary 2040 as a board game. Love it
I love that the mechanics reinforce the idea that you need to develop a plan ASAP and kinda stick to it. At least keep building on what you have learned. And share freely between nations.
But the fiction meant that after my one playtest (pre-release) I found myself quite depressed that night. We had won the game, worked together as global powers and saved the world. But IRL I cannot imagine governments working together and prioritising this issue so honestly. I cannot imagine a world in which I can effect the sort of changes that I did in this game.
Maybe I need to work on my imagination. 😞
After watching this video I ended up buying it. Just played it with some friends and we had a blast!
Thank you so much for this!
Wonderful review! I have my copy, but our group has yet to play it. This inspired me to make it my pick for this weekend. Can't wait!
Amazing video. Thank you
Truely like your analysis! And the point of view of this game seems fascinating.
It is either we do it by cooperation, or we do it anyway after cataclysmics consequences of inaction… and at that point, it'll surely be by dictature.
Please continue to be Efka with Us !!!
AH! This sounds delightful
Thank you
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