Encounters: Shattered Wastes Review - Stagger, Beat Down, Rinse, Repeat

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BoardGameCo Patreon (Exclusive Content) - https://bit.ly/3sKcAYf Youtube Camp_Coop - http://bit.ly/3XHiCa6 Twitch: Camp_Coop - https://bit.ly/3l7nJ14 Devon Talks Tabletop - https://bit.ly/36HAr3l Professor Meg - http://bit.ly/3XKR1ol Daily Pictures & Stuff! - https://bit.ly/39GvjNH Crowdfunding Link - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/almanacgames/encounters-shattered-wastes Encounters: Shattered Wastes is a cooperative board game for 1-4 players. Each player chooses one or more characters (for a total of 2-4 characters being used in a single game) to explore the land of untamed magic known as The Shattered Wastes. Players will fight an enemy in a battle known as an Encounter. Players win an encounter when both sides of an Enemy Card are defeated by reducing the enemy’s Strength and inflicting Wounds. Players and their characters will need to work together to weaken the enemy using their own attacks, which shifts the enemy’s Strength from Stamina to Fatigue. This will Stagger the enemy, giving players the opportunity to inflict Wounds upon it. Enemies will harm characters by using both Strength and Rage cards. Players lose an encounter if all characters have been removed from the Encounter by having their Health Points (HP) reduced to 0 or have fully succumbed to corruption. BGG Link - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/364049/encounters-shattered-wastes TimeStamps: 0:00:00 - Overview 0:14:20 - Ease of Play 0:15:30 - What I Like 0:19:00 - What I Don't Like 0:20:55 - What I Can See Others Not Liking 0:22:15 - Final Thoughts 0:23:15 - Recommendations 5.0 - My absolutely favorite games. You can pry them out of my cold dead hands. 4.5 - Love this game! At the same time missing something that would make it a 5. Could be hard to table, lacking variability, a little light, etc. 4.0 - Really great game, almost always keeping, although has meaningful complaints as to what takes away from the experience. 3.5 - Really enjoyed, don't love it, may lose out to better games but the idea of never playing again is a bit sad. 3.0 - A good game, would play and suggest with the right people, if I never played it again wouldn't lose any sleep. 2.5 - A game I'd play again , but will never suggest it myself 2.0 - A game I don't want to play again 1.5 - A game I can't find any reason to recommend 1.0 - A game that is just bad. My Game Table (Non Referral) https://bit.ly/3aYUdpp Upgrade Your Game At Top Shelf Gamer (Referral Link) https://bit.ly/3siD0PL For media inquiries, please email alex@boardgameco.com For Gamefound inquiries, please email me at a.radcliffe@gamefound.com