2019Nathan Meunier
- Videos
- 4
- Creators
- 2
2 - 4 players15 - 30 minLight weight

2021Nathan Meunier
Mainly playthroughs. Doom Machine is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 7 reviews, 4 how-to-play guides, 14 recorded sessions, 5 unboxings, and 1 other video.
From BoardGameGeek
Doom Machine is an intense pressure-cooker card and dice mint tin solo game experience that fits in your pocket. Face off against an ever-evolving, ever-growing machine of death and destruction! Find and defeat the doom core before humanity is annihilated. Beware: the machine evolves, grows, and cycles each of its parts every turn. You must roll your dice with care, use abilities to modify the results as necessary, allocate dice to deal or block damage, and strategically destroy parts of the DOOM MACHINE to prevent your demise! Each turn consists of two phases: In Phase I, you'll roll your unlocked dice, using the limited available utility slots to modify or re-roll, then allocate dice to either shields (to block incoming damage) or to machine part cards in play (if the roll criteria is met) to deal damage to a part. Destroying parts earns you additional dice for future rolls. In Phase II: The machine AI takes action, cycling the tracking die on each of its available machine part cards and triggering abilities when the die reaches an icon on its AI track -- potentially dealing damage, repairing, locking die, and impacting gameplay in other nefarious ways. When all of the machine parts have completed their cycle, the entire line shifts down one slot and a new machine part is added to the doom machine line, increasing the difficulty with each turn. Can you keep the machine at bay long enough to destroy the core and win? -description from the designer
Doom Machine has 31 videos from 23 creators: 7 reviews, 4 how-to-play guides, 14 playthroughs, 5 unboxings and 1 other video. They date from 2020 to January 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "Doom Machine - How To Play" by Nathan Meunier, which runs 9 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "DOOM MACHINE | Solo Board Game PaRTy!!! (Playthrough and Review/ Tutorial, yup!) 🤖" by Tabletop Tokki. 6 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Doom Machine | Kickstarter Preview | With Mike" by One Stop Co-op Shop, one of 14 playthroughs.
If you like it, try The Blessed Dark, Morbid Fortress, Doom Machine: Death Hack and Mindburners: Into The Void, also by Nathan Meunier.
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2019Nathan Meunier
2 - 4 players15 - 30 minLight weight
2026Nathan Meunier
1 players15 - 30 min
2021Nathan Meunier
1 - 2 players10 - 15 minLight weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Doom Machine is an intense pressure-cooker card and dice mint tin solo game experience that fits in your pocket. Face off against an ever-evolving, ever-growing machine of death and destruction! Find and defeat the doom core before humanity is annihilated. Beware: the machine evolves, grows, and cycles each of its parts every turn. You must roll your dice with care, use abilities to modify the results as necessary, allocate dice to deal or block damage, and strategically destroy parts of the DOOM MACHINE to prevent your demise! Each turn consists of two phases: In Phase I, you'll roll your unlocked dice, using the limited available utility slots to modify or re-roll, then allocate dice to either shields (to block incoming damage) or to machine part cards in play (if the roll criteria is met) to deal damage to a part. Destroying parts earns you additional dice for future rolls. In Phase II: The machine AI takes action, cycling the tracking die on each of its available machine part cards and triggering abilities when the die reaches an icon on its AI track -- potentially dealing damage, repairing, locking die, and impacting gameplay in other nefarious ways. When all of the machine parts have completed their cycle, the entire line shifts down one slot and a new machine part is added to the doom machine line, increasing the difficulty with each turn. Can you keep the machine at bay long enough to destroy the core and win? -description from the designer
Designer
Nathan Meunier
Artist
Nathan Meunier
Publisher
Self-published
Categories
Mechanics