It is nice to know that I'm not the only one who finds it hard to look past Vincent Dutrait's artwork to judge a game on its own merits. His art is just gorgeous.

I love all of you guys. Saturday morning with coffee and Dice Tower = good times.

They totally let it pass that Tom said the mechanisms sounded like they'd be super apey 😀

Fun review 😄

Played it at dice tower east and we loved it! Our only complaint is it felt like we didn't have much time to truly build up our decks and get a good engine going before someone reached 80 points. We wished it went a little longer... To 100 or maybe even two laps around the board

"Gimme those points" lol thanks for the chuckle Chris.

Well, Zee has bumped my enthusiasm down a bit while everyone else lifted them! I'm still wanting to get it at GEN CON, but it's not at the very top of my list.

Darn... I was so excited by the art and theme. This is definitely not what i was hoping for.

@ChrisYi I assume the title was your work and I approve whole-heartedly. Love your pop culture references.

It sounds like a fun experience. I wonder if an expansion can be nicely made to add some meaningful player interaction without losing too much of the fast game flow.

The copy token for two ressources is there also to have a way to spend ressources not buying monkeys I think.

Zee; The voice of the people.

Did I hear Tom say “That mechanism that sounds like it could be super AP(ey)” 😅

I find myself in accord with Space Biff on this one, and thus also in alignment with Zee. Smoothness of play is not actually a feature, as the flipside is lack of crunchy decisions.

I enjoyed beating Chris and the other guys, with my solitaire play. There was a hint of interaction when we got close to 80 points, just tracking everyone else's points. By that time, I had abandoned upgrading, and just focused on immediate points. I agree with comments, that there's little incentive to do deck building. (But I only played once, so it could have been a fluke.) I only bought a few high-level cards, only raged once, and just kept collecting batteries to hit the 5-point action on the tiles. It was fun, though. This is one that may get played a lot at game groups for non-gamers, for its simplicity and speed. I'm all-in with another comment: house rule that rage can be used against another player (neighbor). I would make it a random, unseen card in their deck or discards (their choice). Choosing the most valuable card in their play area would make deck-building even more futile. The attacker should still get the benefit, for balance and incentive reasons (unless you did allow trashing one from their play area). With that house rule in mind, I will probably buy this game after all. Also, you could extend the game to 100, 120 points, or more, making deck-building and attacks worth doing.

Looks like this game would make a great solo app!

Just looking at playthurs I'm totally with Zee on this one. Kinda surprised by the high scores.

This gave me serious Sierra West vibes. Most of the decision space is in that card arrangement at the start of your turn & then you just run it out. This is a little better than Sierra West in that you all act simultaneously, but that leads to even less interaction. Both games seem like they should be solo games.

Dear Dice Tower, could you please make a video about the ratings? Sometimes it feels kinda random. Like Zee's 6.5, which had an explanation of a 5, or the 8 ratings, after the relatively cold review.

It makes me think of Earth: very much head down, reading left to right, gaining stuff, swapping stuff, then it ends. Not that that's a bad thing as such. I rather enjoyed earth!

I agree with everything Zee says.

To add some player interaction, how would you feel about a house rule where rage could be used to exile on of your cards for the benefit or to exile one of your opponents’ cards? Maybe they would get the benefit to make it slightly less mean?

Haven't played it, but I expect that for my taste the token handling (taking, returning, exchanging) would be too frequent for how quick the game moves. Like all players constantly touching hands reaching for the same stuff

Doesn't look like it's for me. Zee is on the right side of history! lol

If they monkeyed with some mechanics in an expansion, I definitely feel like this game could evolve quite a bit.

I expect Chris must've written the pun in the title, since he also references Planet of the Apes: Original Recipe in the video as well. Well done, though that pun is a reference to a 1974 movie and a 1985 song, which begs the question: "How OLD are you???" Speaking of "orange-u-tangs", what's happening to the color in this room? You all self-tanning now?

So you are basically saying that this is a way to 4-5 solo players to come and play a multiplayer player game while still playing the genre of game that they love 😂

For me, this game made it way better solitary than multiplayer I like playing this little puzzle, which can be quite hard or easier, regarding the starting configuration (IA monkeys and Tiles at my disposal), Once you played it 2 or 3 times solo, the IA goes really smooth, and the pacing is nice. And the fact that you're stealing ressources from the IA is a game changer for me and the reason why i dont like the game that much multiplayers not the best, not the worst.

Multi-player solitaire is vastly underrated. That's right I said it! ❤

I’m with Zee on this one…….., but then I’m always with Zee.

Pretty disappointed about this review, tend to have the same tastes as Chris usually but this time I agree with Zee more. We played this game in Cannes and it was awful, barely got any cards in our decks, the person who won didn't build his deck at all, lots of luck involved... pointless. It's pretty and I like the simultaneous play though.

Zee knocked it out of the park with the number rating, 8 is quite forgiving. It's a fine game but a soulless exercise with zero reason to play this with any other players.It's easy to teach, yes, but just play it solo, though the AI is a bit . . . . fiddly to operate. The time length is pretty extreme when you go to 4+ players for how basic the game is. What's funny is that no-one wants to buy it 2nd hand despite this being the "must grab" item at the UK Expo.

I don't see the point of playing this with other players. Solo is ok for a few plays.

The better the themactic ties the better the game. No theme, hard pass.

the art looks cool but those advanced cards have SO much going on.

I have to say this was a complete disappointment. The title, the theme, even the description guided me to a game that this is completely not. Collect cards, match symbols, get stuff...this is probably the most boring gameplay you could have with a theme like this. Just thoroughly disappointed.

Looks like yet another mediocre game with dutrait art. I think i need to take a break from this hobby. Things are getting worse and worse.

Me and my wife roasting the horrible cheap graphic design feel of this game for about 10 minutes with the video on pause -the "edgy" spray paint and stencil style on the boards, the diagonal lines on the cards, everything with this pre-adolescent style (cause "wild monkeys" right...). First thing this guy says on Final thoughts: "I LOVE the art on this game!" I know The Dice Tower is massive channel but I honestly never agree with their taste in "Art". To me it looks so cheap. 🤦

Its a solo game ....annoying really

Lame game. I can't imagine why any of you rated it over a five.

This was easily my least favorite game I played at Dice Tower East. Theme and art was cool but I was so bored and unimpressed by it I asked the table if if I could leave halfway through.

I think I’m the only person who doesn’t like Dutrait art. 😬