Crowdfunding link (launching 6/18/24) - www.kickstarter.com/projects/renegadegamestudios/unstoppable-a-card-crafting-game-by-john-d-clair 0:00 - Introduction 0:48 - Game Overview 2:56 - Turn 1 13:42 - Turns 2-3 23:39 - Turns 4-6 33:29 - Turns 7-9 44:25 - Turns 10-13 55:44 - Impressions

Clear, compelling, and complete video (as always). Thanks for putting this on my radar, Mike! Unstoppable looks really great.

I'm liking the look of this! I thought it was a solo from your intro, but it's 1-2 players -and that's my jam! At least we know sleeved cards fit in the box!

Who said innovation in board games is dead? Looks great! For sure going to pick this one up.

I'll say this game brings a new genre on the deckbuilding board games since it combines the card crafting genre that John made into a deckbuilder where your deck is both your actions and your enemies. The card crafting and deckbuilding hybrid is a first since you can make your own cards like Mystic Vale, but you buy base cards first that you put upgrades into later. I'll keep my eye on the kickstarter for now. Since I have enough games to pay off soon and/or have to play, I don't know if I'll be able to back it, and like what some others said in the comments too, I don't know if I want to be taking the cards in and out all the time during the game and afterwards when I have to put it away if I got a copy. At least for now, I rather have all the cards sleeved and be done with it once when I unbox it, not do it 50+ times during the game which can be a chore after awhile and might take away the fun for me, especially seeing you have to always put upgrades between 2 cards in the same sleeve (character and enemy). Otherwise, I hope you'll be able to do another playthrough of the game once you get a final version in a year or too. Based on how happy you were with the prototype (and saying it might be in a top 10 list once the official version is out), I won't be surprised if you go all-in on it when the kickstarter is live in 3 weeks. I think John really outdid himself this time introducing something new in a game that no one else has done before (take a deckbuilder where you still buy basic cards, but you also get to customize them a bit by buying upgrades for them).

Lol, I just finished an epic solo run of Edge of Darkness before I came here. Thanks for the presentation, this is a definite buy / backing.

I love the look of this and i love deck builders in general. I do have concerns about wear and tear on the cards given how often you will be taking them in and out with 3-4 cards rubbing together in the same sleeve.

Oh man, this looks like something I need thanks a lot for covering this. I have a love for deck building games. I’m not so much into living card games like Arkham or any of those other ones but I do love a good deck builder.

Oh man. My interest was already high because John D Clair....solo....deck building. Now it is through the roof!

Edge of Darkness is a masterpiece and this just seems to be a more simplified version!

Really looking forward to this. Maybe it is different when you are playing it but I think it would be easier to follow if there was a large large spin down die or number token in the enemy display area to denote the boss level. Thanks for the preview/thoughts :)

Again, an awesome looking game that seems to be really fun and a game I hadn't heard of yet. Glad to see the Kickstarter launching next week, I'll be checking this one out for sure! Hopefully with cool looking playmat and acryllic tokens as upgrades to the cardboard ones. Fingers crossed! Thank you for sharing this one.

Great video! You've definitely piqued my interest. I like the big variety of cards.

The chief of staff holds a big staff. I like this kind of graphic design. Now we need a master of arms as some kind of alien with many arms.

You got me on Warp's Edge...XD

looks neat! would love to see more scenario/narrative interactions, not just kill baddies. boosting the hidden scenario information stats, not just fighters. could have some Netrunner vibes. definitely keeping an eye on this though, great vid as always!

This game looks really fun. Will check out the campaign. Thanks for the video!

Well you haven't led me astray on card game recommendations; Skytear Horde & Genshin Tarot were amazing games for us. For what it's worth, Mystic Vale is fine, but Edge of Darkness is where it's at for John's card crafting system. We absolutely adore it - it's a shame it's so inaccessible for most players given the size/rarity of it, but it's possibly the most impressive board game design I've played, but it's truly fun and tense too. So, him going this direction for a game sounds like an absolute dream for us. Thanks for the preview/thoughts Mike!

The art reminds me of Shadowrun

This gives me strong Shadowrun: Crossfire vibes. Which is good because that game is super out of print 😆 And card-crafting is better than legacy. Following the KS for this one!

Gameplay looks great. Drafting plus a market deck is a sweet design. Needing to defeat units to get your cards back is super cool. But, man, I think having to mess around with adding card to my cards and then taking them all out at the end is housekeeping I will very much not enjoy. Also, I'm moving away from sleeving everything I own because plastic, which will not be an option here. Looks fun, regardless! And I love the enthusiasm Mike brings.

Looks so awesome but how annoying is the sleeving mechanic during set up and tear down?

Your channel is slowly but surely becoming a menace for my wallet 😂 just some days ago i discovered Corps of Discovery due to your videos and now this. I was always interested in the card crafters, and that game looks great.

Is Viren Sympathizer a call out to Warps Edge Viren invasion? Same universe?

So is this part of the Solo Hero Series with Warp's Edge/Proving Grounds/Wreckland Run?

If you haven't tried Edge of Darkness you really should, it's by far his best one. Player cards are also enemies like in this one and also all the cards are in a shared deck that all players draw from. It's very interesting and near infinite variability!

This looks so interesting but also so complex. I dunno how they could balance this game. I also don't quite see how it could be played on a higher difficulty. It sounds like you skip spaces on the track...which gives you less rounds overall. But your damage against the boss is limits to how much you cycle your deck. So it seems like it would be incredibly hard if not impossible on higher difficulties. Maybe I'm missing something.

Looks good. What are your current favorite solo deck builders?

While this card crafting mechanic looks interesting, I'm the kind of guy who never plays with a game before sleeving all the cards. So this whole "taking out and putting in cards" thing almost giving me anxiety. 😅 It's a shame because the game looks good and I really like deckbuilders.

This looks incredible and so unique! Have you tried the co-op mode yet? If so, is it as good as solo?

I assume the mat will be an add on during the Kickstarter?

Looking forward to this. Only issue i see is, the cards dont look like they can all be sleeved, since you have to have your main card sleeved and then you add the cards to the sleeved one. Meaning you are going to have to leave everything unsleeved while you are handling them all the time. Its going to slowly wear the cards down.

Being a 1-2 player coop game, how does it compare to Skytear Horde? I’m assuming you like this better, but I do wonder if Skytear will jump up when Monolith delivers here soon 🤔

It appears that by linking enemy cards to player cards, the cull action can take on new importance. Usually your decision to remove a card is about getting rid of your weak cards only. Now you may also decide to get rid of a card based on the enemy value on the reverse side. True? The only thing I could see as a hinderance to this game is the complex chain of actions that need to be tracked. This card does this, which then triggers that on these two cards, that then may or may not give you money or damage... etc. Some people can track this well in their head, others will miss things or get AP over it. This can be a downside with large player counts, so I see this mostly as a 1 or 2 player game. Thoughts?

Warp's Edge on Steroids. I love it!

Where does one buy this?

This video has me pretty keen but my concern is I’ll get caught up in your enthusiasm and get burned again like I did with Warp’s Edge and Bullet. Don’t get me wrong, I think both those games are really cool and well designed, and your playthrough/review videos of those convinced me to get them, but I totally misjudged how much physical admin there was in those games. Playing them for real ended up being 80% admin time (as in; physically moving components around) and only 20% of the time actually playing. I think that, because you talk through all your thought processes in the Bullet and Warp’s Edge videos, I get a false sense of how extremely quick the turns actually are in real life. (The high-school-art-class level illustrations in Warp’s Edge didn’t do it any favours in my mind either). I ended up not really being a fan of either Warp’s Edge or Bullet but I don’t think I disagree with anything you said in your reviews, they just didn’t factor in how much physical mucking around you have to do in those games. I ended up trying the scripted mod for Bullet on TTS and it’s fantastic! And now in my mind, Bullet is a great video game with a clunky board game version. I don’t know if I’m hitting the mark with comparing Unstoppable to those two games but this video really reminded me of them.