(Self-Published) | SKU: KTO_001

Keep the Heroes Out!

Name: Keep the Heroes Out!
Brand: (Self-Published)
SKU: KTO_001
Price: 63.95 CAD
Availability: InStock

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Designer	Luís Brüeh
Publisher	(Self-Published)
Players	1-4
Playtime	40-50 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Expansions	Keep the Heroes Out!: Boss Battles Keep the Heroes Out!: The Great Dreamer Expansion Keep the Heroes Out!: Guild Master's Revenge Expansion Keep the Heroes Out!: The Sparkling Guardian Expansion Keep the Heroes Out!: Cozy Dungeon
Additional Info	333255/keep-heroes-out http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/333255/keep-heroes-out/forums/63

An asymmetric, cooperative dungeon defense game for 1-4 players where you play as the monsters protecting their hard earned treasures against invading hordes of looters (so-called heroes) trying to steal it.

In their turn players draw 5 cards and play, these cards allow them to move, activate the tiles they are to perform the tiles actions, attack heroes, and move their units around. After each player, draw and perform cards from the heroes deck.

Your goal as a team in every scenario is to survive the 3 levels of threat from the invading heroes by protecting the treasures on each room. If the main treasure is taken, the game ends end you loose, but if you manage to protect the treasures for long enough, you all win.

—description from the designer

Fun little game with a few imbalances.

This is a fun, relatively simple dungeon defence/deckbuilder game with cutesy art and a humorous approach to the typical fantasy setting.

The game comes with a large number of player factions or monsters, a fairly lengthy campaign, and enough strategy to keep more hardcore gamers interested while also being relatively light on rules so that the family can also enjoy it.

I should mention though that the difficulty is wildly imbalanced, though. For more experienced players, the standard 'Family' setting is probably going to be far too easy, while the normal or 'Challenge' can often see you pulling out your hair. A game could be going completely fine and then suddenly end in a single turn due to unforeseen circumstances or bad card draw. It's something that even the developer understands is a bit of a miss. (It was later corrected in one of the expansions.) Basically, you'll probably have to house-rule this one to find the difficulty sweet spot.

Also, not all of the player factions are balanced, with some feeling far more situational than others, and a few 'easy' or OP factions to let kids enjoy this one.

The deckbuilding is pretty light, but once you have an engine rolling, you can easily see turns where you're playing upwards a dozen cards or more per turn, and then you really start to feel like a wrecking crew. (Although some people may find this being a matter of the game being too easy, perhaps.)

I still enjoy this one though. It's not super heavy, and a game can be played in 30 - 60 minutes, depending on the player count.

I would definitely recommend for anyone that enjoys this kind of game and doesn't mind having to alter a few elements to get it to where they personally find it enjoyable.

Keep the Heroes Out!

Kelp: fun but a bit lopsided

My partner and I have played this a couple times from both roles and while it’s fun, it definitely feels like the odds are stacked perhaps a little too heavily against the shark. Because of this, it can be tough to convince people to play as it sort of feels like you already know who is going to win by which character you get. That said, I will still continue to play it for the challenge of trying to win with the shark…it will likely just not feature very heavily in my two player game rotation.

Tous ceux avec qui j'ai joué l'ont adoré!

Pour moi j'ai acheté les boitiers rouge et violet afin de jouer avec plus de personnes et ensuite j'ai acheté le coffret Deluxe pour l'offrir en cadeau.

Great game!

A great shedding game where you play poker hands and power cards.

Nightfall Lite but Not Nightfall 2.0

If you liked Nightfall, but thought individual creature combat was too tedious? You'll probably like this.

If you liked Nightfall but thought the game was too slow to ramp up, or too long to finish/hand out all wounds, you'll like this.

If you thought Nightfall's "Private Archive" claims ended to overpower the game based on luck of the draw, you'll like Unchained's 3x3 market grid.
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As far as deck builders go, I like Unchained. It will take awhile to really know the card power combos. The symbols look overwhelming at first, but are kind of intuitive once you're used to how the cards work. Combat is total offense vs total defense and result is one fatigue (wound). So no MTG-ish "creature 1 attacks player B and creature 2 takes 3 wounds against player C." It does speed up and simplify the game a lot. The 3x3 card market is brilliant. You can get cards you want and/or clear out cards you don't want your opponents to get. Much more variety of cards to cycle through than 8+2 archives = 10 cards to choose from per game.

Solid 4/5 all around. I'd give 5/5 if there was a happy medium in combat between Nightfall and Unchained. Not as super simplified as Unchained, but not like Nightfall's individual cards combat. Maybe a power on some cards "stays in play after combat" so there's a larger chance of different strategies than "I punch you, you punch me, repeat"

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