Distilled - Kickstarter Preview (Full Round Gameplay)

[@BeforeYouPlay]

What is your spirit of choice?

[@chemtrail_brew_Que]

Macallan 18

[@christiankroner2965]

Ardbeg Uigeadail

[@KillJoy83]

Appleton Estate Rare Blend 12-Year Aged Rum

[@kmontzka]

Jefferson’s Ocean Bourbon

[@truelifetales]

Dogfish Head Compelling Gin - currently only available in Delaware. Going to PAX Unplugged? It's a short drive away...

[@Gmoney14]

Would love to see a full playthrough of this.

[@marknadeski7485]

Great rules teach and play through. Probably would have passed on this one if I hadn’t seen this but now I’m leaning towards backing.

[@FrankMinogue]

This was very helpful. I just got the game for a present, and this put all the pieces together! Thank you so much!

[@sharlynnc8018]

Great Tutorial! I'm looking forward to playing!

[@russellhansen9593]

Nice play through. Thanks. First play tomorrow!

[@BeforeYouPlay]

Good luck!

[@KillJoy83]

This is the one I've been looking forward to seeing highlighted on the channel after I heard they sent you a review copy! I have been playtesting this one since VGC 2020 :) Great game and really leans into the theme well.

[@decaydance2010]

I wish I'd known about your channel and this Kickstart before. We just bought this and it's kind of cool to see the prototype versus the actual game now. It took a moment for us to get and we should have started with this video. Once we got it, it's quickly become a favorite.

[@BeforeYouPlay]

☺️ Thank you for the kind words. Glad you are enjoying the game!!

[@mediateachermike277]

You two always do such a nice job explaining games! I always look forward to your videos!

[@yoonkl8101]

Just backed THANKS to you guys.. This might just be the most thematic euro I've ever owned. I can see that so much love has gone into the game and I love that enthusiasm and passion from the designers.

[@jamesmorgan1967]

I like the look of this one. Seems like you both enjoyed your playthrough!

[@xJAMESVICIOUSx]

been waiting for this to launch. It looks like a lot of fun and very thematic!

[@antonwig]

Well done! This is a very thorough and helpful explanation-cannot wait to play the final version! Cheers! (And my spirit of choice is Bourbon🤓)

[@deanlowdon8381]

My Kickstarter copy arrived today, now to learn how to play it!

[@felippebarretto5514]

Thx for the tutorial

[@Mark-sn6kh]

Picked this up today in my local game store. Lets goooo!

[@wsiegel9539]

Just Backed... Looks like a fun and interesting game

[@BeforeYouPlay]

Hope you enjoy it! Our copy of the prototype was excellent, they're on the right track. 😃

[@DerKleineThilo]

Great review! Looks like an interesting, thematic game

[@wsiegel9539]

Opps... looks like Monique added the gold recipe to her (silver) rum @ 18:50 ... I assume this is incorrect? Nice quick round play through. Easy to understand. Thanks

[@paverson]

That is correct, a slight mistake. To unlock Rum, Monique only needed a silver cube. The gold cube would have unlocked Baijiu or Brandy in this game! Good catch!

[@BeforeYouPlay]

Yes you are correct! Looks like Monique had her eye set on her 2 favorite things GOLD and RUM! hahaha (Monique if you read this i'm kiddingggggggg!!!!) -Naveen :-)

[@rndbits8276]

@@BeforeYouPlay Naveen, you've just revealed Monique's secret pirate identity! =0P

[@kovray]

What a beautiful game!

[@BeforeYouPlay]

It might be the best prototype we've ever received.

[@charlesvalentine9638]

How would you rate this vs. viticulture?

[@mukke76]

Naveen's pronunciation of 白酒 is pretty good - literally "white spirit".

[@mukke76]

IMHO a pretty acquired taste though.

[@BeforeYouPlay]

Oh glad to hear! I didn't want to sound uncultured lol 😜

[@BeforeYouPlay]

@@mukke76 I want to try it!

[@cptimlim]

great pronunciation! its definitely the drink to get drunk.

[@christopherleary7934]

I'm interested in this one, but the required table space looks significant. Really solid integration of theme and mechanics, so hope to eventually get this at retail.

[@BeforeYouPlay]

When we first unboxed it and set it up we were quite surprised by the footprint!

[@pct87]

I have a similar issue with the table space. I simply don’t have that much real estate available.

[@torstenr19]

Nice review again, thanks guys! One question: Aging costs nothing and there is no requirement to continue aging, right? Each round of aging I get one flavor which adds more victory points to the stack, right? So isn't it a kinda mandatory move to distill an aging spirit in the first round(s) to receive plenty points for doing nothing in the aging rounds? I'd assume a race for aging spirit ingredients in the first rounds, granting you important points at the end of the game.

[@williamcallison2009]

Will need to drink a lot to get through delivery period for this - December 2022. Not ripe for crowdfunding. Get closer to delivery before taking money

[@BeforeYouPlay]

Hi William, I feel you on this. Just for some prospective though, this is a new publisher with this being their first game. There is a huge competition over resources and both shipping and goods prices have 3-5x'd recently. I'd imagine they are treading cautiously.

[@francescocorbelli2933]

Heroes of barcadia on kickstarter is also about to end, a game where your life and your character are respectively beer (or any other drink) and a transparent glass of glass or plastic that marks life, I highly recommend it!!!

[@chiehlilee9224]

Naveen pronounced baiju so expertly as if he can speak proper Chinese Mandarin fluently

[@BeforeYouPlay]

Oh no way! haha

[@truelifetales]

Once again - thanks to you - my "no more Kickstarters" resolution has been broken. Watching the play through I had one thought: how long before a neoprene play mat is requested (demanded?) for this game.

[@truelifetales]

Called it: Neoprene mat and shot glasses now a stretch goal! :-P

[@chrisruf6581]

The rule about top and bottom card is so silly considering the cards are shuffled. Would have been much cleaner to just do the top 2 cards.

[@BeforeYouPlay]

Haha it's purely for thematic sense. In spirits making the distillers remove the "head" and "tail" of the batch as they are the least desirable parts.

[@thenerdgirl1]

I don't find aged poltergeists that relatable.

[@stanhilinski7280]

What happens if distillation fails?

[@BeforeYouPlay]

You can always default to Moonshine or Vodka

[@alpardal]

Caninha/cachaça 🕺

[@BeforeYouPlay]

I (Naveen) want to try it!

[@harshasubbanna]

Two much of mechanism in game and lot of rules