SETI Board Game Review

[@nobuthatsme9201]

Uranus is actually a large planet. You can fit 63 earths inside it. 64 if you relax.

[@larrytedmcbride]

🤣 those jokes never get old.

[@harveydents]

LOL did u get that joke from Hecklefish?

[@chadvader974]

Haaaaa

[@roberthoornweg2879]

@@larrytedmcbrideyes they do

[@jackjohnson9988]

You had me at “prove Uranus”…great review man

[@travelinwithTODD]

one minute, 24 seconds for the Uranus joke! nice. My copy of Seti is in the mail and should be here this week. i look forward to that "wink" at the end of the video every time now!

[@simonb9898]

1:56 I don't think you can move a probe in orbit to the surface of the planet. It's either in orbit forever or a rover on the surface forever.

[@Filthyy1]

You can't

[@BoardGameBollocks]

Cheers for that. Rulebook made it sound as if you do one then the other but I just re-read and there’s a sentence after the main bulk of text that says otherwise.

[@SteveBonario]

Unfortunately, the same component is used for three different purposes: probes, orbiters, and landers. The rulebook does try to distinguish the roles, but could have been clearer, imho. When a "probe" token is used for orbiting a planet, it becomes an "orbiter" and stays in orbit. From then on the orbiter reduces the cost for anyone's probes to land on that planet. When a "probe" token lands on a planet it becomes a "lander" and stays on the planet. The only time a probe can leave a planet is if it remains a probe and moves around the solar system. So in game terms, once a probe is inserted somewhere, it remains inserted.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

It seemed as though the probe got converted in a step by step manner but now we know this isn’t the case…the rules are indeed abit foggy with regards to this hence our mistake. The way you explained it was great. Shame you don’t write rulebook.

[@MidnightCarp]

The reference to sniffing Stefan Feld made me laugh out loud.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

🤧

[@AllinWhenPlaying]

You better do that play-through of ANYTHING at some point or I will make a sausage barm with mayonnaise. I'm serious!

[@JonnyTenebrous]

Quality review - it places SETI on my radar, where I had previously done a pretty decent job of glossing over it.

[@JoeTheGons]

Nice camera work on this one. Haven't played yet, but everyone who has agrees with you.

[@Groegselmaschupp]

1. great channel, dude! 2. it seems to me that I already got five games that do the same thing more or less…. 3. doesn’t it look like a crossbreed of NCC1701 and a roulette table?

[@TateRoberts_007]

My copy will be here tomorrow!

[@richardhancock1505]

I’m still on the galactic fence about whether to Persue this one. The lack of interest with limited and hugely variable aliens puts me off. Hopefully I can try before I consider the buy. Your video & editing are fantastic.

[@HahahaSoFunny]

Always a laugh!

[@SimplicitySingularity]

I'm hoping that the expansions aren't named after planets, but if they are, I don't think I'll pick up the Uranus expansion.

[@SimplicitySingularity]

Unless the drones are really cute, then I'd buy it for sure. What would we call them? Meepus?

[@SimplicitySingularity]

Definitely sleeve your cards for this expansion, maybe double.

[@archip8021]

what's wrong with an Uranus expansion?

[@imnottellingyoumyname3050]

I personally can't wait to pick up that expansion and dive right into Uranus

[@xSean0607]

I'd love to be an asstronaught so I could Analyse Uranus, I heard it's very big and gassy.

[@ABTOCMEPTb]

Over the weekend we played SETI and Terraforming Mars. Both were first plays ever. We felt SETI was deeper and more interesting. Would you agree and would you consider SETI a terraforming mars "killer"? Thank you for your great video. Always watching.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

Prefer SETi but TM has more variety at present

[@ErmineskinCreelov]

Dang looks like a regular Martin Scorsese behind the camera today

[@captainspoof101]

Looks good. Was waiting for your take on this. I don't know what that says about me

[@SimplicitySingularity]

Says FAN BOY, in a soft meandering look.

[@notlaw1976]

Really glad that this isn't shit. I really want this one. Looked at it yesterday in Travelling Man, but its a bit pricey for mid January.! 😂 Ill have a look again next month.

[@jackburtonstwin]

I was wondering how long you could resist putting Uranus and probe into the same sentence. Thankfully, not long. The Two Ronnies have a lot to answer for among our generation. I got this game a few weeks ago as Chaos had the game on a good pre-order deal. Not played it yet, but I am looking forward to doing so as the theme is absolutely up my street (that's not another euphemism for Uranus). I'm glad the game is quite open and not as tight as a polar bear's bum. Euros seem to take excessive pride in being so mechanically tight that it's an exercise in self-flagellation.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

How do you know how tight a Polar Bears bum is?

[@jackburtonstwin]

@@BoardGameBollocks My probes been there, done that!

[@neilwalker4277]

Was after this before xmas but couldn't get it. Got to play it yesterday and while I appreciate the game, I'm glad I don't own it. I like a brain burner and this is one and reminds me of Woodcraft in terms of not enough time, too many decisions, always short of resources and hurts the head. I really like Woodcraft and other euro thinking games, but this one, it was just too slow and painful for the first half. When the second alien came out we just couldn't be arsed to trigger it so just loaded up the first alien. We also got sick of never having enough of something, money mainly. But has nobody else noticed the irritating (maybe just my OCD) board fault? The outline for the research tiles on the board are the wrong way round. They've been drawn for when the tiles are face-up like on your player board, but on the board you place them face-down, so the cut corners are on the wrong side....

[@tonyclark67]

Yes, totally get the cut corners being on the wrong side!

[@jurds216]

I think your initial complaint is more about getting better at the game than anything else. I played my first game and felt the same way. We slices thru it. But my second play was so different. I tucked more cards for income vs just playing them all and had more resources than I needed a couple turns. I truly think it just takes time to learn how to best play it

[@wiblick]

Right, it stays on the wishlist.

[@JeffGoris]

I appreciate the review, but I just can't get excited by big Euros any more. My eyes glazed over straight after Uranus got probed.

[@kalega311]

I played a couple days ago and there's already a rules conflict between you and the person who taught us (whether or not probes can land. My teacher said they can't). That's the beauty of these super heavy solo solitaire Euro games. Who knows what the actual rules are and after a while, who cares, just let the game end.

[@BobbyJuno]

@6:04 oh, forget it then

[@SimplicitySingularity]

It's a bit different than your typical alien invasion and the subsequent fight, huh?

[@chronixchaos7081]

Not a game about chairs then? Disappointed.

[@jecabreradc]

I hope the probe launch was successful. LOL😂

[@CarlosRodriguez-ez3ls]

Contact the movie in a box?

[@thegameskingdom811]

You can't move a probe from orbiting a planet to landing on a planet

[@BoardGameBollocks]

Yea we know that now. The rules make it sound like you have to do one then the other but then contradict with a singular sentence. Cheers

[@thegameskingdom811]

@BoardGameBollocks it's not clear and a lot of people have been confused by it, I had to check it a few times

[@BrianMarcus-nz7cs]

Well well , trust matt to set the record for double entry remarks on U tube ,🐦😃🕊️🍺

[@BoardGameBollocks]

You Lube…

[@kamilb8085]

🎧🚐🇵🇱

[@Filthyy1]

Both times I've played this game I've managed to be sou day ahead for the first two thirds of the game and then somehow lost by about 10 points. So I don't think the runaway leader is a valid point.

[@shatnershairpiece]

So many rules questions on this game and I’m not sure it’s going to work with two players. Lots of complaints about 2 player, round too long, aliens killing the flow, gets boring in last half. My copy is coming in a few days and I am not looking forward to trying to get through it…..update after first play. by far the most overhyped game of 2024. What a disappointment in so many ways. 😡 off to the sell pile.

[@kalega311]

Just played it this weekend at 4P. All those complaints sound right lol. Except I thought the aliens were a cool shift. But man...long ass solo solitaire game that wears its welcome, for sure.

[@stoo2k]

It's a really easy one to learn, it's surprisingly simple to teach, if you play euros you know what to expect. The iconography is super clear. It doesn't do a whole lot new necessarily, but what it does do it tweaks to near perfection. It definitely needs more aliens, more gold end game tiles, and I'd like to see a "leaders" style asymmetrical starting factions. It didn't last too long either, with new players and a teach out 3 player game was just over 2.5hrs

[@stoo2k]

Oh my partner and I played two 2 player games as well and it was great fun. A lot less scanning took place, but we both still finished between 150-170 points both times

[@fyrnice25]

The complaints about 2 player games is so over blown… mostly from those that haven’t played enough or clearly don’t understand the benefits in scanning… the area often complaints of. This is an excellent 2 player game.

[@HedleyPhillips]

Was thinking about getting this but I think it will get very boring very quickly, and any game that relies on an (bound to be expensive) expansion to be interesting beyond a few plays is not a good game.

[@clvrswine]

Anything Space themed is the dullest of themes. Aliens: boring. Space art is weak and a bore.