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Feb 1, 2022·Review·28:40·497·Watch on YouTube

Colab - Kickstarter Critique Review

Bower's Game Corner

Bower's Game Corner

Watch “Colab - Kickstarter Critique Review,” a board game review for CoLab from Bower's Game Corner on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by Bower's Game Corner on YouTube:

I check out the new Colab Kickstarter which has raised over 100k! Interested in having your next Kickstarter project featured? Check out my Fiverr - https://www.fiverr.com/share/LBGxap Check out the Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/portaldragon/colab-relaunch?ref=discovery_category_popular 3 Spectacular Reads For Any Kickstarter Creator: 1- https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/how-to-get-featured-on-kickstarter 2- https://help.kickstarter.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005135214-How-does-my-project-become-a-Project-We-Love-or-get-featured-on-the-homepage- 3- https://thegogofactor.com/hacking-the-kickstarter-ranking-algorithm/ Want To Help The Channel Get Better? Consider my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Bowersgamecorner Purchase games on Amazon and support the channel!?: http://amzn.to/2rTdgsf Get a peak behind the scenes and join my Facebook Group!: https://www.facebook.com/BowersGameCorner For More Info: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/283634/colab From The Publisher: The dawn of a new age approaches and we stand at the precipice. The unbridled power of nature awakens something within. Mysteries demand to be explored and the results are not always what we expect. Creepy creatures, dangerous devices, precarious potions, CoLaboratory Incorporated provides a shared laboratory space that is the perfect home for your and your outlandish creations. Build interesting devices that open new possibilities. Brew potions that grant you fantastic on-demand abilities. Create strange monsters and earn great renown. All while keeping an eye on your fellow scientist and their minions. Scientists bring research into the lab to use on their experiments but they are not the only ones who benefit. Occupy a space adjacent to the research dice held by any minion and you can use it for your own creations. Collect monster, device, or potion dice to generate more research that can be used on your creations. Expand the laboratory giving everyone new opportunities. With each new creation, your collection grows and the placement of each creation in your grid can create new opportunities or gain more renown. Once a player builds their 12th creation the end of the game is triggered and the player with the most renown (points) wins. CoLab worker and dice placement game with dice collection. Players compete to gain the most renown through building monster, device, or potion cards over the course of the game. Each turn you send a minion to a tower space to gather resources or return a minion. Your minions also hold your resource dice. This resource can be used by players at either adjacent laboratory location. Then you place your player miniature on a laboratory location and either put the adjacent minions to work collecting more resources or build cards according to what is available at that lab. As the game progresses the board expands giving new opportunities for all players who visit that location. Build a wide variety of monsters, potions, and devices or focus on one type to gain the most renown and win the game. CoLab employs a series of '“take this”' mechanics where players provide resources, minions, or other opportunities to their opponents in exchange for resources or points. Balancing how much you give away with the opportunities your opponents may create is the real trick to becoming the most renowned scientist in CoLab.

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CoLab

CoLab

2024·Jonathan Gilmour-Long, Jon Mietling

Videos
19
Creators
14

Mainly reviews. CoLab is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 11 reviews, 2 how-to-play guides, 1 recorded sessions, 3 unboxings, and 2 other videos.

1 - 4 players
90 - 120 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting

About CoLab, from BoardGameGeek:

The dawn of a new age approaches and we stand at the precipice. The unbridled power of nature awakens something within. Mysteries demand to be explored and the results are not always what we expect. Creepy creatures, dangerous devices, precarious potions, CoLaboratory Incorporated provides a shared laboratory space that is the perfect home for your and your outlandish creations. Build interesting devices that open new possibilities. Brew potions that grant you fantastic on-demand abilities. Create strange monsters and earn great renown. All while keeping an eye on your fellow scientist and their minions. Scientists bring research into the lab to use on their experiments but they are not the only ones who benefit. Occupy a space adjacent to the research dice held by any minion and you can use it for your own creations. Collect monster, device, or potion dice to generate more research that can be used on your creations. Expand the laboratory giving everyone new opportunities. With each new creation, your collection grows and the placement of each creation in your grid can create new opportunities or gain more renown. Once a player builds their 12th creation the end of the game is triggered and the player with the most renown (points) wins. CoLab worker and dice placement game with dice collection. Players compete to gain the most renown through building monster, device, or potion cards over the course of the game. Each turn you send a minion to a tower space to gather resources or return a minion. Your minions also hold your resource dice. This resource can be used by players at either adjacent laboratory location. Then you place your player miniature on a laboratory location and either put the adjacent minions to work collecting more resources or build cards according to what is available at that lab. As the game progresses the board expands giving new opportunities for all players who visit that location. Build a wide variety of monsters, potions, and devices or focus on one type to gain the most renown and win the game. CoLab employs a series of '“take this”' mechanics where players provide resources, minions, or other opportunities to their opponents in exchange for resources or points. Balancing how much you give away with the opportunities your opponents may create is the real trick to becoming the most renowned scientist in CoLab. -description from the publisher

Designers

Jonathan Gilmour-Long, Jon Mietling

Artist

Magdalena Proszowska

Publisher

Portal Dragon

Categories

EconomicMiniatures

Mechanics

Deck BuildingDice Rolling
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