Thread by @jonst0kes

Played a 5 player game of Nemesis with my three kids and a friend, and it was the most fun I’ve had gaming since high school D&D. Incredible game, and the kids loved it, too. “It’s like being in a movie” said the 9yo.

There are a lot of rules, so I basically ran the game as a kind of DM. But the kids grasped the mechanics really well. The only rough spot was at the end, when the 9yo & I thought we’d competed out objectives & were safely in hybersleep for the jump to warp...

Only to find that the 13yo had sabotaged
an engine early on in the game, causing the ship to explode & kill us at the end. It was ice cold, man. She and the 7yo got away safely in an escape pod.

There was one point in the game where the 13yo (playing the Scout) was trapped in a room with 2 adult aliens, & I (soldier) ducked into the room, laid down suppressive fire, & got her out without a scratch. She guilted me into it, while KNOWING she had sabotaged that engine. smh

I look at these ~$800 Kickstarter packages & think “what insane person drops that much on one game?!” But I’m not gonna lie, if someone in the local Austin BG sale group dumps their sundrop pledge of this, I’m liable to pounce on it.

I’m really into games with interesting puzzles to solve (really into Aeon’s End right now), but Nemesis doesn’t feel puzzley. It feels very much like an RPG session with a great DM. The feeling after it’s over is of having just played an amazing RPG campaign.

Here’s the video review that sold me on springing for it. I was not disappointed. These guys get it.

One way in which it’s like an RPG is I think with the wrong group it could fall flat. Another example of how relationships factor in: early on, the 7yo got into the airlock control room, which lets you depressurize any room with an airlock & kill whatever is in there’s...

So then it’s the 9yo’s turn, & she has two choices for getting where she needs to go: a room with an airlock, or a room with a lot of noise around it that could attract trouble. So she had a whole dilemma over whether her sister was going to airlock her or not...

And of course the 7yo played it up and tormented her with it. So the game puts you in these kinds of positions where you’re thinking about relationships.