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Clank Catacombs: Lairs and Lost Chambers - Review Information: Mechanics:  Deck-Building, Push Your Luck, Exploration, Tile Placement Player Age:  13+  Player Count:  2 - 4  Players Time to Play:  45 - 90  Minutes  Game Designer:  Paul Dennen Game Artist:  Clay Brooks, Anika Burrell, Nate Storm, Dan Taylor (II) Publisher : Direwolf Year Published:  2024 BGG Weight:  2.60 Introduction: Clank Catacombs is a standalone cross-compatible edition of clank. My original review can be read here. This edition does not have a static map, instead it is a more explorative version with new locations and pathways revealed through tiles.  Lairs and Lost Chambers is an expansion that can easily be shuffled into the base game adding two new location types lairs which hide specific monsters and lost chambers which are similar to way shrines from the base game but contain different rewards and costs to placing down ...

Clank Catacombs: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Deck-Building, Push Your Luck, Exploration, Tile Placement Player Age:  13+  Player Count:  2 - 4  Players Time to Play:  45 - 90  Minutes  Game Designer:  Paul Dennen Game Artist:  Clay Brooks, Anika Burrell, Nate Storm, Dan Taylor (II) Publisher : Direwolf Year Published:  2022 BGG Weight:  2.18 Rundown:  Clank has returned with a standalone expansion, Clank Catacombs. The main change in this version is instead of having one static board, the board is constructed as players play through numerous tiles. Appeal: The appeal is easy with this game, it targets two types of players;  those intrigued by the mechanisms but prefer tile-laying games/variable maps, and the players who are pre-existing fans of Clank. For the fans, this standalone game is completely compatible with existing content (unlike Clank in Space). This means that the cards in the deck...

Clank - Levity Stickers: Review Overview: Clank is a great adventure game that combines deck building with board exploration, for a review on the base game visit here. This review is focused on the stickers from Levity Games that aim on enhancing your wooden components. Meeples: Each character meeple has a sticker for their front and back, creating an enhanced presence throughout the whole game. These stickers are based on the characters and meeples from the base game including two male and female characters (matching the clank cover).  The feisty dragon piece has also been enhanced with the sticker addition whereby creating a mightier face as it gains more anger through player exploration. Clank Tokens: Unlike other sticker companies, Levity has added stickers to the other crucial part of Clank. These are the clank tokens that represent your life, the noise you make, and other elements from certain expansions. Final Thoughts: - Stickers for the clank tokens. - Currently only catac...

Clank! Adventuring Party: Review Information: Mechanics:  Deck-Building, Push Your Luck, Exploration, Asymmetrical  Player Age:  13+  Player Count:  2 - 6  Players Time to Play:  60 - 120  Minutes  Game Designer:   Evan Lorentz Game Artist:  Raul Ramos, Nate Storm, Alain Viesca, Anika Burrell, Derek Herring Publisher : Direwolf, Renegade Game Studios Year Published:  2020 BGG Weight:  2.31 Introduction: Clank's largest expansion is here with 6 new asymmetrical characters, the possibility to now play at 5 and 6 players, and more cards for the main deck. New Cards: 35 new dungeon cards have been added to the deck which brings increased variability and enough content for up to six players. Two new prominent card types have come from this; choice arrive cards and react cards. Cards with ‘arrive’ have evolved to include a choice. Now players can choose out of two options when these cards arrive.  React cards wor...

Clank! - Expeditions Silk and Gold: Review Information: Mechanics:  Deck-Building, Push Your Luck, Exploration Player Age:  12+  Player Count:  2 - 4  Players Time to Play:  30 - 60  Minutes  Game Designer:   Tim McKnight Game Artist:  Raul Ramos, Nate Storm, Jon Schindehette Publisher : Direwolf, Renegade Game Studios Year Published:  2018 BGG Weight:  2.18 Introduction: Clank! has had many map packs. With the last two map packs they have streamlined the expansion to no longer include cards and simply have only the maps and their features. Are the maps any good though? Let's find out with silk and gold.  Spider Queen's Lair: The first map is the Spider Queen's Lair. Firstly, the 7 point artifact is replaced with a spider idol and the dragon meeple is replaced by the spider queen herself. Between locations will be some webbing denoted by the Web tokens that  can either be cut down with the use of a sword or avoid...

Clank Deck Building Game: Rapid Review Information: Mechanics:  Deck-Building, Push Your Luck, Exploration Player Age:  12+  Player Count:  2 - 4 (6 with expansion)  Players Time to Play:  30 - 60  Minutes  Game Designer:   Paul Dennen Game Artist:  Rayph Beisner, Raul Ramos, Nate Storm Publisher : Direwolf, Renegade Game Studios Year Published:  2016 BGG Weight:  2.22 Rundown: Clank is a deck-building game with a large mix of push-your-luck that comes through the board. In Clank you are adventurers exploring deep into the depths to gain the best artifact before you annoy the dragon too much and have to face his fiery anger. There are four currencies: the swords that will be used to slay monsters; skill is used to buy cards to enhance your deck or for later use; boots depict movement over the board although some locations will be locked, will require extra movement or have monsters in between them, and players must end th...