Kingdom Rush Elemental Uprising Deep Dive Review

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A look at the newest from Lucky Duck Games Kingdom Rush Elemental Uprising. They sent it. I played it. What are my thoughts and how does it compare to the original? How well can a tower defense game work on the tabletop? Let's break it all down
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Time Stamp:
00:00 - Kingdom Rush Elemental Uprising - Overview
01:06 - Sample Setup
- Towers Taking Out Enemies
- 12 Scenarios
02:20 - The Towers & Upgrading Them
04:28 - Sample Turn
06:50 - Types of Enemies & Tower Use Dynamic
- Rewards for Defeating Enemies
09:53 - The New: Mods For Towers (STICKERS?!?!)
10:26 - Characters and Their Interaction
13:30 - The Scenarios and Their Significant Variations
15:58 - Pros & Cons
- Min and Maxing Just SURVIVING
- Slightly less Min/Max-y than 1st Version
18:10 - PLAYER COUNT OPTIMIZATION
- Recommendation = 1-2 Players IMO
19:28 - Scenarios Laid Out In Succession Well
- Setup/Teardown
22:53 - Don’t DO WHAT I DO
24:29 - HARD GAME WARNING
- Do You Actually Want That?
27:25 - The Passing Mechanism Blessing/Curse
29:24 - Replayability?
- Unintuitive If You’re Unfamiliar = Increased Difficulty
30:59 - What’d I’ve Love To See More Of
31:28 - Mod Stickers….Yeah
32:27 - Replayability Part 2
34:06 - Final Thoughts
- Will I Keep It?
- Too Hard Or Hard Enough?
- Polar Bearing Ending

[@blankhalo4340]

Hi Chris, you might need to check the rules, the dwarven artillery *does* hit all three targets simultaneously (unlike the other types of tower).

[@Pokephantom]

Loved the first one and played through all of it! Sad I skipped out on this one, hope to pick it up later.

[@Twineandribbon]

A game I want to play but not own haha. Thanks for the coverage.

[@TheFuriousCucumber]

The real difficulty of the game is knowing when to improve his towers, and not be overwhelmed by it. This is not clear. It depends on the scenario and future waves. You can feel stupid if you lose, without really knowing what went wrong. I find it game design not elegant and engaging.

[@matt_stowball]

Not sure when this will come out of shrink for me, but man, I miss the days of good value crowdfunding campaigns

[@TheKevlol]

I‘m with you regarding the stickers. Would it not be an option to use tokens instead of stickers? I mean it’s kinda fiddly aswell but it’s less peeling. Maybe I’ll print some tokens :-/

[@TiagoSousa026]

The stickers are very reusable and easy to remove, it's hard to explain because they aren't like the normal paper stickers, it's more like a suction cup. Being stickers improves a lot the usability because you are constantly changing around the towers and carrying a token can be lost while being a sticker is always with the card. I don't know its lifespan of it but it worked.

[@haxan6663]

I own and have played the original and have Elemental Uprising, but haven't got it to the table yet. I like it because it isn't like anything else in my my collection, which is predominantly skirmish, boss battlers and dungeon crawls. I tend to drop in to one off scenarios, every now and again. And I have no intention of using any stickers on it?!

[@seanbester1465]

As a fan of the mobile games, I gotta say it just seems like they could have done this so much better. It just looks so cheap.