Anachrony Playthrough Review

Full 2-player playthrough followed by a review. Enjoy!

[@Apeshower]

You two have become my favourite game playthroughers and reviews. Calm, thorough, informative and pleasant company. Well done on your classy playthroughs.

[@stefanhammarsten6369]

Been researching this game for the up coming expansion on Kickstarter. You guys have convinced me this game is a definite go for me! Great playthrough, really appreciate the work you’re doing. Keep it up!

[@evergreen_monster]

Amazing, I was one of the proofreaders of the game and still you made me realize I was playing a rule wrong (once I set focus to a past Era, if I ever wanted to re-focus again during the same turn, I'd count back from that Era instead of the current one). Informative and interesting, as usual. Loving this series, you guys should be more well-known! Keep up the good work!

[@Replect]

I know it has been a year, but that is not correct. If you re-focus, your starting point is always the current rounds era, not the era your focus is on.

[@scottylovesthings]

You guys are seriously the best. I don't think anyone could explain a game with this many components and variables as well as you guys did.

[@piyushathawale]

I love your playthroughs...clear explanation of rules, board, setup and most importantly the right amount of information! Keep it up!

[@wolfstritt598]

I have just watched again your great review as it's been a long tme since I played Anachrony . I preferred watching your review instead of rereading the rules. >In my modest opinion you are the best game reviewers and players I know . Big hug and congratulations for your excellent job. I am very glad to know that you both go on doing reviews of this kind.

[@AntLabGames]

Thank you so much! This means a lot to us.

[@wolfstritt598]

@@AntLabGames so does it to me, Francis and Anthony!

[@wolfstritt598]

@@AntLabGames sorry, Frances , not Francis!!!

[@aaronandtorivick2637]

Thank you so much. I play games with my wife, so that is a factor. I like how you play as a couple. Well done. This game is on my wish list. I almost bought it before COVID-19. Now I will wait until after COVID-19.

[@bgm-1961]

Another solid video! Haven't had time to watch it all yet, but so far... it didn't occur to me untill 11:50 that you guys are playing on the asymmetric side of the Player boards. Cool! So it might be worth mentioning here that the player boards come with two playable sides. One side (the "A" side) allows for symmetrical play among all the boards while the "B" sides are asymmetric from each other. You guys are obviously describing the "B" side. And this doesn't even touch the multiple asymmetric sides of each of the "Path" boards (not to be confused with the player boards, as you guys pointed out). And Francis, keep up with that great smile! It brightens the video!

[@fembrulee1883]

bgm 1961 you are too sweet!

[@zottirgen]

You (may) clear the warp tile of your choice immediately after getting the anomaly, not when you get rid of it. The free actions must be played before your main action. Also you reveal the next era's super project as well but someone else mentioned it. Thanks for the video and review

[@yohannc.9594]

Congrats guys you are awesome! Your videos not only help check some rules details but also keep us entertained. Kiss from a French fan.

[@geraldcollins5684]

That you for this run-through. You drew my attention to a couple of details on the B sides that I hadn't noticed before, possibly because I've only used the B side on Tabletop Simulator so far (hard to get enough table space for real life setup.) A couple mistakes: 1) In preparation phase you reveal the next Era Superproject, so you always know what the next will be. 2) You got water for your second action in the second Era using a worker (main action) then used a free action to wake your sleeping workers. Free actions must be before the main action. Admittedly, this free action doesn't make much difference, but other free actions might. 3) The collapsing tile bonus used at 1:29 was double bonus, not double recruit. (As far as I can tell. It's hard to see, but the color looks wrong for double recruit. Frances is too kind. She should have taken that genius in the first Era. (Smiles) Archive of the ages was really what gave her the win. It was 8 points. Good job both of you.

[@geraldcollins5684]

I did type the comment with line breaks, KZbin crunched it all together.

[@3GOD]

I fully agree that this game leaves you satisfied, win or lose. The journey itself is so engaging and enjoyable that I end up not really caring if I end up with the highest score. Good review!

[@imanujakku]

Great review. I love you guys put in the time to review these long euros. Id be interested to see your guys top 10 heavy euro list. Maybe something you could do on the podcast.

[@jerlanska4027]

Just wanted to say, I love your videos! I like what you are doing, how you play and interact with each other. Keep up the good work! You two are very valuable to the game industry!

[@AntLabGames]

Thank you! We really appreciate that!

[@coyotemoon722]

Played this game recently and fell in love with it. Great playthrough!

[@S.Kapriniotis]

I just want to say that I watched this once to decide whether I wanted to get the Infinity box and I am watching it again in order to play the game now that my Infinity box has arrived. Cheers!

[@TripleGMS]

Thanks for time and effort for the play through! Can't wait to get mine to the table now!

[@johninglis1676]

Thanks for the video!!You guys did a great job of explaining everything!!Me and my wife love this game!!

[@AntLabGames]

Thanks!! It’s one of our favorites too :-)

[@jwspiker]

The cube colors could have been more distinct. This is a game that will be greatly helped by having a good insert would be helped to set it up more quickly hopefully

[@yohannc.9594]

There is one at Meeple Reality

[@hemz003]

Thanks for the great play through! Awesome one as always! Keep it up! Glad that I bought this when it came out. It's now out of stock. And lovee those minis!

[@QueenKaticus]

Great video! This cleared up a couple of things for us in both set up and a few actions. Thank you!

[@kksirqj022]

First of all, I am a huge fan of you guys, Watched almost all the videos and bought many games after watching em, Like Trickerion, One of my top 5 games. Just ordered this one as well. I was hoping that one of you would do the solo version, really looking forward to it.

[@jasonchristian3592]

Love your play throughs my favorite always have been!!! really enjoying them now with Francis, especially since she's a way better gamer than me and my group probably! But could do a solo chronobot solo playthrough for my solo group that would be awesome!!!!! Still confused quite a bit!! Thanks guys!!!

[@Grnademaster]

I'm painting the minis for this game now!

[@doughouston9767]

Great review of an outstanding game. Well done as usual!!

[@bgm-1961]

OK, just finished the rest of the video, and I agree with most everything you said during your comments. Especially how it's definitely a "points salad" game, which I see as its only negative. Also, Anthony, you kept emphasizing what a long game it is. Yet it took you almost exactly (just shy of) two hours. Compared to any other good 2-player strategy game, that's right on par! Plus keep in mind that you slowed the game down in the early parts to explain what you were doing. And also consider that you took it to the end of the 7th Era. Several reports on BGG indicate that the game is ending around the 6th Era, usually. Though that could be due to higher player count. Any way, two hours isn't a long game. Or at least it didn't used to be, back in the day!

[@AntLabGames]

bgm 1961 Thanks for the feedback! One thing to note of importance: I edit out all of the strategizing. Yes, every minute Frances and I spend thinking about our next move for every phase gets chopped out of the final playthrough. Nobody wants to sit through a minute of silence while we both AP. This was at least another hour. We started playing at 1pm and finished just before 5pm. This is why it felt so long for me. Our subsequent plays should be much faster though. But don't get me wrong, I do like a good long game.

[@buckcherry2564]

Great playthrough, cant wait to get my copy. Also, I LOVE how Anthony says "water". Cant place the accent, but it is fantastic.

[@coyotemoon722]

Woarder

[@rekath16]

I liked what I saw, that's why I subscribed! Best wishes from Germany.

[@stevefratus1546]

I think it's awesome that you don't really know your score in relation to everyone else's. That way I can just play the game as well as I can to complete it and then see who won at the end.

[@stevegeorge7773]

Fantastic! This with Trickerion is/are the best demos. Awesome. I purchased a copy of Trickerion based on your play-through and I will be getting this one on the same grounds. I think I'm a sucker for the deeper complex and stronger games. Thanks!

[@stevegeorge7773]

I would like to kindly ask how your end storage turned out to be? Is the games in storage solution sufficient?

[@stevegeorge7773]

Can't believe my luck! I managed to get the Leaders Box edition! Sweeet playing to come!

[@eviola11]

Great play-through and review! Love this game.

[@trevinsky01]

Enjoyed the video, even though the game is not my cup of tea. I love Trickerion so was excited to see how this game played, but after watching your playthrough the theme just didn't come through enough for me. Thanks again for helping me come to this decision and for saving me a few bucks to invest in a different game.

[@jhjjsj1]

Not sure it was mentioned but when you pick up an anomalie I think you can remove one of your warp tiles.

[@robertobc1396]

Great run through guys! Also, I would love to see your miniatures of this game painted :)

[@MickRissling]

I think of the Life Support building that trades a worker for 7 water as a "dehydrator" that sucks the water content out of the poor worker to quench the rest of the colony. I like to think there may have been a lottery in the colony...

[@j3errym]

Great review - I will be recommending to gamers I try to entice to play. Board layout great - like putting the paradox tiles above the impact tile and End condition to left of the Main board. Breakthroughs best to stack by type not shape, as shapes easier to pick out of pile :). Also keep resource decks face up , the top one is the revealed setup and then just place on bottom to reveal new one each turn. Space is limited. The game starts with Era 1 Super project revealed and you always reveal the next Eras during the New Era/set up phase. You played with just the current era revealed. You also forgot to take free water for unused Exosuit spaces (bays). Missing that "free" water probably changed the game significantly.

[@AntLabGames]

starman Thanks for the feedback! Frances took her water each round. Side B of my player board doesn't permit my faction to take water for empty exosuit bays; which is why I never took it.

[@aweso]

Nice video. All of the talk of water in this game makes it pretty clear where you guys are from. Especially Anthony. In terms of the game, I thought Trickerion was pretty good but not quite great and this looks like about the same or maybe slightly less good to me. I like the heavier euros like this with a lot going on, but it just doesn't look like everything comes together in the way that things do in my favorite games. Don't get me wrong I'm sure I'd like it, but I'm also pretty sure I wouldn't love it and I try to only buy games I think I'll love.

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

Great video, but must ask, do you have a fan running in the background or something similar? Heard it in other of your videos also and it really ruins the soundquality at some times in the videos :(

[@AntLabGames]

We live in an apartment right now until our house is finished and everything makes a ton of noise here. The new house will have an actual studio with proper lighting, sound-proofing, and table space. Please hang tight for another month or two.

[@BoardgameswithNiramas]

Ok I assumed it was something like that but just wanted to write so you didnt have a problem with a mic or so that you didnt know of :) Im in the process of making a homestudio myself in my house and guess it will be awsome for us both once we get there :D Anyway thanks for the video, just filmed unboxing my copy and gonna try it out for the first time tonight :D

[@sylvander4972]

A question I cant relly cant understand here =) If you have two powerplats.. one that reach 2 spaces back and one that reaches 3 spaces back... Then you cant reach 5 spaces right? You can only reach so far as the building you put your worker on can reach? You cant add them togheter?

[@pks-bisqp2677]

Hey, 59:52 shouldn't you increase the morale track as well? BTW very nice video! Well done guys

[@TomBartol]

1. Places up to 6 of their Exosuits on the Hex slots of their Player board 2. Then receives 1 Water for each remaining empty Hex slot. this is because in Warp phase you can get Exosuits,

[@sylvander4972]

Nice work :)

[@AntLabGames]

Thx!

[@MickRissling]

Love this game. Keep up the great work! The Doomsday module is so fun, v really changes it up Did you ever paint the minis? I just got done. Took forever but they looks so cool

[@samiamagainagain]

In a point salad type of game like this, you really need to calculate how many points each action you're taking is going to give you, especially in the final round. On your final move, Anthony could have won. Granted, he was probably pretty tired at the end there and it is more difficult to focus while filming. But my point is you need to think about how many actions it it taking to get how many points.

[@jonathanpolitis9856]

There's about 2 minutes that the video looks corrupted 2:00:00 to 2:02:00... just fyi

[@AdahyCseti]

Don't you need to flip the second superproject at the beginning of the first era? Great video though 🤩

[@TheRooster1972]

Slight correction - you should have the super project for the current era flipped AND the next era. Obviously the only one available is the currently focused era not the next one but certainly those in the past a fair game.

[@landrysooner2015]

Just curious where you see this in this rules? I've seen a couple other people say this and have looked for it, but don't see it anywhere

[@TheRooster1972]

Landry Williams the rules are a little ambiguous. Have a read of this thread on BGG: boardgamegeek.com/thread/2025351/superproject-set-clarification . Hope that helps.

[@arivald6677]

0:40 out of nearly 3 hour video. "It should take us about hour of so." Press X to doubt.

[@stormquiver]

LOVE this game. Love this video, thanks so much.

[@MuztabaAhmed]

you guys are AH-mazing! please do one for Everdell

[@AdahyCseti]

Frances, I believe you forgot to move up your time travel marker at 1:42:15..

[@dLantee]

Awesome!! loved it.

[@greytoeimp]

Thanks for the review! What do you guys use to paint figures and stuff?

[@AntLabGames]

Joseph Sedita We use Citadel paints for all our minis.

[@Judgedredd1973]

@30:20 why would you take an engineer over a genius?

[@Iceman910902]

Was thinking the same thing....

[@numero6jbs]

If you have to kill an engineer later in the game it must be an engineer. You can't kill a genius

[@Nnomadd]

excellent, thanks

[@KujoPainting]

Looks like you need a lot of table space for this, it's humongous.

[@Judgedredd1973]

Did you guys ever end up painting your mechs?

[@Judgedredd1973]

I guess not :(

[@warlord76i]

Some video upgrade would be nice :-) Good review though

[@fembrulee1883]

Istvan Fazakas Looks like you jumped on it right away which is awesome! Check it out now - KZbin takes hours on long videos like this one to upload in the highest qualities.

[@oviorus]

Great playthrough/review! But really? A worker placement game where the same player always goes first? It felt unfair Anthony was always snatching the cheap build action.

[@kilogramm]

I think if someone takes the left capital action at the top he/she goes first in the next turn. Though it can be taken only if one of the regular capital actions is full.

[@Mokkel73]

Did you paint the hexorsuits yet?

[@floweytheflower4407]

Howdy!

[@jhjjsj1]

Oops, you remembered later, should have finished the video before commenting.

[@jhowd78]

Please play this game solo. I know you moved past it but please give it a shot.

[@ydryas454]

Have you guys ever gone back to this one?

[@AntLabGames]

We have indeed...3 player game. Awesome.

[@ydryas454]

Sorry for the delay and thanks for the reply! That's my dilemma, i'm still trying to decide if it's worth to have as a 2 player game only. Time will tell but i think Trickerion is still my favourite out of the 2.

[@redeyedghost1406]

I think it's great at 4. Haven't played at fewer players yet myself.