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Feb 6, 2025·Review·12:37·420·Watch on YouTube

Catopomp | Let's Guide Cat Souls Into The Afterlife | Board Game Kickstarter Preview

kovray

kovray

Watch “Catopomp | Let's Guide Cat Souls Into The Afterlife | Board Game Kickstarter Preview,” a board game review for Catopomp from kovray on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by kovray on YouTube:

Welcome to Kovray! We're a couple who adores board games and seeks to share our joy and passion with you. Today, we're going to tell you about Catopomp, a card driven game where you're aiming to guide cat souls into the afterlife by getting rid of the cards in your hand. Catopomp is designed and illustrated by David Chow, and published by Swaggy Games, who helped sponsor this video. Learn More: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/swaggygames/catopomp-a-tactical-card-game-about-cats-and-souls Catopomp is a card game, in which your goal is to get rid of your hand (card shedding.) You'll do this by playing sets of cards that is better than the previously played set. Now, you'll play cards out of your hand "Heaven Cards" OR from your Hell Domain "Hell Cards" to create the best set. You can even use dice from the centre to Dice Boost your set! As soon as one player remains with cards left in their hand, they'll lose a soul gem, if a player loses both of their soul gems they lose and everyone else wins! Thanks for watching our Preview video of Catopomp! Have questions? Please ask us in the comments as we're happy to chat about this game with you! Question of the day: If you could be an entity that guides human souls into the afterlife, what shape would you take? 🥰 Enjoyed our content and want to support our work? Please consider checking out our: 📣 Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kovray 💬 Our Discord: https://discord.gg/mqwR9PPpdr Follow along our social media to join in on our adventures! 📘Facebook - @Kovray https://www.facebook.com/kovray 📸Instagram - @kovraystudios https://www.instagram.com/kovraystudios 🩵 Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/kovray.bsky.social 🕰️Tiktok - @kovraystudios 0:00 Catopomp 0:54 Game Overview 2:50 Key Mechanism - Card Shedding 3:22 Easy to Introduce 3:50 TWO TWISTS 5:37 Length of Play 6:00 Theme is... 7:13 The Art! 7:37 Variances, Modules, and Extra Cards 10:35 Who is This Game For? 11:05 Learn More! 11:27 Question of the Day Join our Discord Channel! https://discord.gg/mqwR9PPpdr https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/430023/catopomp #boardgames #catopomp #catopompgame

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Catopomp

Catopomp

2025·David Chow J.S.

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6
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Mainly reviews. Catopomp is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 3 reviews, 1 how-to-play guides, 1 recorded sessions, and 1 other video.

2 - 4 players
10 - 20 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes

About Catopomp, from BoardGameGeek:

In Catopomp, you are the new supervisor of a team of cat psychopomps. To ensure that no lost souls are left behind, you must lead your furry subordinates to guide these souls into the afterlife. The goal of the game is to play all your cards and not be the last player with unplayed cards. Whenever you play cards from your hand, you must also reveal one additional card and place it in front of yourself. Over time, this will form a set of revealed cards that you will need to play as well. To help you with your task, once per round, you can use one or two dice from a shared pool to enhance your playing set. Time the dice well, and use them wisely! If you choose to pass, the player who played the most recent strongest set of cards can pass one of their revealed cards to you. This means that you will have more cards to clear. Yikes! What will you reveal? How will you manage your hidden and revealed cards? Finding the balance is key! The game also offers a competitive mode for players who prefer to have only one winner. NOTE: the Kickstarter exclusive expansions include 5 executive cards(Celeste, Ego, Jigokun, Taro, and Thoth)! Each executive cat provides their supervisors with a unique power to help guide souls along. You may add them to any Catopomp game variants. At the beginning of the game, randomly distribute one executive card to each player. Each player will possess the unique power of their executive cat for the rest of the game. Alternatively, players may take turns drafting one executive card before the game starts.

Designer

David Chow J.S.

Artist

David Chow J.S.

Publisher

Swaggy Games

Categories

AnimalsCard Game

Mechanics

Hand ManagementTrick-taking & Climbing
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