与骰塔共桌——回顾2025

没错。

Correct.

所以动画版的

So the animated all

我对埃里克开的那些玩笑和调侃。

the fun I made and directed towards Eric.

太好了。

Sweet.

不对。

Nope.

或者你可以留到以后再用。

Or you can save it for later.

可能还有其他人。

There might be others.

我没事。

I'm fine.

无论如何。

Either way.

《Flow》是一款限时实时游戏，玩家需要轮流放置板块，必须等待其他玩家完成操作，为四种动物从棋盘角落到中心开辟路径。

So Flow is a game that is a timed real time game where you are putting down tiles, and you must take turns and wait for somebody to finish to make paths for the four animals from the corners of the board to the center of the board.

游戏中有些卡牌可以让你修改骰子或板块的放置规则，还会出现各种场景，比如棋盘上会出现不同的事件。

There you have some cards that let you modify some of the the dice the tile playing, and you can have scenarios where you move the you know, have different things that come out on the board as well.

但实际上，你每次只有一分钟的时间操作。

But, really, it's you're doing it at a minute at a time.

每分钟结束时，浪潮会席卷而过，消除一行和一列板块。

At the end of every minute, the wave flows through and eliminates one row and one column.

你要么设法到达中心的船只，要么从角落到中心开辟一条不间断的路径，否则就会耗尽板块。

You're trying to get to the boat in the center or make a a nonstopped path from the corners to the center, or you run out of tiles.

所以要么赢，要么输。

So either you win the game or lose the game.

这样设计是为了体现合作性。

That way, it's cooperative.

游戏非常轻快。

It's super light.

但它的背景设定是：在一个后启示录的世界里，人类已不复存在，但动物们随处可见人类近期存在过的痕迹。

But what it does is the movie flow is, you know, animals in a postapocalyptic world where humans aren't there anymore, but you see plenty of evidence that they did exist at some point in the recent ish past.

它们正经历着自己的混乱与冒险。

And they're having their own chaos and adventures and what have you.

影片贯穿了对存在主义焦虑与混乱的思考，但在不言一语间，又在其中找到了平静与祥和的瞬间。

And it goes through a lot of thoughts of, I guess, existential dread and chaos, but finding moments of calm and serenity in between without ever saying any words.

游戏同样如此——当电影原声作为计时背景音时，你正疯狂地放置板块试图让动物抵达中心。

The game does the same thing where you're frenetically trying to place tiles to get them to the center while the timer is the soundtrack from the movie.

于是你听着优美舒缓的音乐、浮标钟声与潮水声，同时疯狂地放置板块，试图在计时结束前完成——否则你一半的努力都将被抹除。

So you have this beautiful soothing calm music and the sound of a buoy bell ringing, and the ebb of water, and you're frantically placing tiles to try to get before the timer goes off and wipes out half of what you've done.

所以在我看来，《Flow》是款极具主题性的游戏。

So to me, Flow was a thematic game.

不错。

Nice.

我选择《Storyfold Wildwoods》。

I'm gonna pick Storyfold Wildwoods.

这是一款单人冒险游戏，通过几组卡牌进行，但有几款游戏确实试图从你打开盒子的那一刻起就为你创造一种体验。

This is a solo, adventure game working through some decks, but there are there are a few games that really try to, like, from the moment you open the box, create an experience for you.

我认为《Horrified》系列游戏就做到了这一点，在你第一次打开时呈现给你一些东西。

I think, the horrified games have done that by presenting you with something when you first open it up.

就像游戏板背面的一幅震撼画面。

It's like a a splash image on the back of the board.

《Storyfold》也是如此。

Story fold does that as well.

这是一场冒险，你将在故事书的不同页面间穿行。

It's an adventure where you're moving through, different pages of a storybook.

但当你第一次打开它时，开头就是'很久以前，在一个遥远的国度'这样的经典句式。

But when you first open it up, it it just begins with, like, long ago in a, you know, faraway land.

你在折叠时，会发现游戏板实际上是故事书的一部分。

And you're folding, the board is actually part of the storybook.

它向左右两侧展开，形成放置卡牌和牌组的区域。

It unfolds to a left and a right panel where your cards and decks are gonna go.

当你展开所有部分时，它就像是在讲述这个故事的序幕。

And as you unfold all of that, it's sort of doing the prologue of the beginning of this story.

它的规则书也非常简洁。

It also is very light on rule book.

许多机制通过教程、故事和序幕来教授，让你通过游戏过程理解，而不是阅读一大堆规则参考。

A lot of the, mechanisms are taught through the tutorial and the story and the prologue so that you get it through gameplay and not with reading a bunch of, you know, rules references.

我想应该有一本规则参考书。

I think there is a reference rule book.

但它能立即将你吸引进这场穿越森林的冒险中，让你专注于故事而非规则文本，我认为这非常出色，是一个很棒的叙事冒险游戏——《Storyfold Wildwoods》。

But it draws you in immediately into this, adventure through the woods, and you're you're just you're focused on that and not on the rules text, which I think is is really, really strong and a a great, storytelling adventure, Storyfold Wildwoods.

是的。

Yeah.

我同意。

I agree.

这游戏太棒了。

That's a fantastic game.

好吧。

Alright.

这绝对是朱莉的菜。

This is definitely one of Julie's categories.

这款游戏我们要无视那些黑子。

This this is a game where we are ignoring the haters.

这是我们今年的心头好。

This is our guilty pleasure of the year.

我们就爱这游戏，管他呢，就是要玩。

We like this game, and we're gonna play it by gum Yeah.

不管别人怎么说。

No matter what anybody else says.

没错。

Yeah.

好的。

Okay.

我可以先开始吗？

Can I go first?

开始吧。

Go for it.

你为什么写在这里？

Why did you write here?

因为我的游戏是深深的悔恨，而我玩它时毫无悔意。

Because my game is deep regrets, of which I have none playing it.

啊。

Ah.

我只是以为你想连续说两次存在主义恐惧。

I just thought you wanted to say existential dread two times in a row.

嗯哼。

Uh-huh.

但你刚才在《Flow》里说过这个。

But you just said that in Flow.

是的。

I do.

我我有特定的偏好。

I I have a type.

对不起。

I'm sorry.

我没有。

I'm not.

我不。

I don't.

在《深悔》或《Flow》中我都没有遗憾。

I have no regrets in deep regrets or flow.

《深悔》是一款深海潜水游戏，但背景设定在类似克苏鲁神话的海洋中，你打捞上来的东西高风险高回报。

Deep regrets is a game where you're deep sea diving, but in a, Lovecraftian kind of ocean, and what you pull up is a high risk, high reward.

你必须提前规划好是出海还是留在渔村，这些选择将决定你本轮的行动。

And you have to plan in advance whether you're going to be at sea or in the fishing village, and those will be your action selections for that round.

就像我说的，你要么在捕鱼并决定下潜深度——潜得越深风险越高，回报也越大。

Either, like I said, you're fishing and deciding how deep you're going down and higher risk, reward the deeper you go.

在村庄里，你通过贩卖物品来赚取积分。

In the village, you are selling, things and then gaining points back.

但玩得越久，你积累的悔恨就越多——这些主要是剧情卡牌，随着游戏推进会阻碍你，你需要想办法摆脱它们。

But the more you play, the more you gain these regrets, which are mostly flavor cards that then hinder you as the game goes on that you're trying to get rid of.

最后你会像集换式卡牌那样，根据收集的不同物品组合来结算分数。

Or and and and then at the end, you're having, like, a set collection of the different things that you've collected for points.

我喜欢它的美术风格。

So I like the art.

我喜欢这个主题。

I like the theme.

我喜欢里面的文案，剧情设计很出彩——不过很多人不太能接受游戏中的随机机制。

I like the the writing in it, which is the flavor is delightful, but I also, many people don't enjoy the randomness of of the game.

我喜欢随机性强的游戏，所以这完全不会困扰我。

I like a good random game, so it doesn't bother me at all.

我觉得这很符合游戏的核心主题——得到什么就是什么，别不高兴；或者你不高兴了，就抽张卡看看上面写了什么烦恼。

I feel like it leans into the idea of the the major point of the game, which is you get what you get and you don't get upset, or you do, and you pick up a card and read what that upset is.

是啊。

Yeah.

在南方有句话：给你什么就拿什么，别耍脾气。

In the South, you you get what you get and you don't throw a fit.

噢，我喜欢这个说法。

Oh, I like that.

我从来没听过。

I've never heard it.

不过你得用正确的腔调说。

You gotta say it the right way, though.

不。

No.

谢谢。

Thank you.

你呢？

How about you?

说到随机性，我选的是《月球殖民地大屠杀》。

Speaking of randomness, my my pick is moon colony bloodbath.

这是Donald和Vaquirino合作的游戏，讲的是经营一个月球殖民地，你需要通过一个中央牌库来推进游戏。

This is the Donald x Vaquirino game about running a moon colony, and you are working through a deck, like a central deck.

这有点像牌库构筑游戏，但只有一个牌库。

It's sort of a deck building game, but there's only one deck.

你逐步翻开牌库，上面写着你的月球殖民地发生的各种灾难事件。

And you work through the deck, and it says nasty things that happen to your moon colony.

你会不断损失人口，但偶尔有机会采取行动，建造建筑、获取资源，试图阻止情况恶化。

You're gonna lose population left and right, but occasionally, you get the opportunity to take actions, which will let you build buildings and take resources and try and stave off the bleeding, basically.

还会有机器人试图杀死你。

You're gonna get robots that try to kill you.

你会遇到月球殖民地发生的各种事故。

You're gonna get accidents that happen in the moon colony.

你还会有机会把人变成箱子。

You're gonna get opportunities to to maybe turn people into boxes.

这是个古怪的游戏。

It it's a wacky game.

而且乍一看也不怎么样。

It also, at first glance, does not look that great.

他们做的这个游戏我觉得是

They they made I think this is an

第一印象。

initial first glance.

就算看二十遍，还是觉得很糟糕。

At twentieth glance, it still looks terrible.

你在说什么？

What are you talking about?

某种程度上来说，它看起来并不出色。

Somewhere in the middle, it doesn't look great.

我认为这是他们故意为之，为了营造复古感。

They I think this is an intentional decision to make it look retro.

但百分百确定。

But 100%.

这样做

Doing so

是故意让他们的游戏看起来很糟糕。

intentionally makes their games look bad.

我同意你的看法。

I agree with you.

这样做并没有达到效果。

It in doing so, it doesn't.

最终呈现的字体效果并不理想。

It it ends up the font is just not fantastic.

总之，我选择忽略这一点，转而关注这款游戏的独特之处。

Anyway, I look past that to the quirkiness of this game.

我觉得这就像坐过山车一样刺激。

I think it's, it's a roller coaster ride.

我喜欢通过前几轮后，人们都觉得'这还不错'的感觉。

I love, getting through the first couple of rounds, and people are like, this is fine.

有什么问题吗？

What's the problem?

但到了第二或第三轮，你就会发现'啊，我的人都被吸出气闸了，这该怎么解决？'

And then by round two or three, you're like, ah, all of my people are getting sucked out of airlocks, and how do I fix this?

这很有趣。

It's a good time.

这就是《月球殖民地大屠杀》。

That's Moon Colony bloodbath.

汤姆。

Tom.

你是把这个分类命名为'尽管有汤姆你还是喜欢的游戏'吗？

Did you name this category basically games you enjoyed despite Tom?

我感觉这个分类已经往这个方向发展了。

I feel like that's where this category has headed.

我没有这类游戏。

I I don't have any games like this.

我只是说出我的想法。

I just say what I think.

我不知道别人怎么想，但我确实知道别人对游戏的看法。

I don't know what other people I do know what other people think about games.

大部分游戏我想说的是一个尽管有爱好者喜欢但我讨厌的游戏。

Most of the games I wanna say a game that I hated despite the enjoyers.

你懂吗？

You know?

那应该是《深深悔恨》和《月球殖民地大屠杀》。

That would be Deep Regrets and Moon Colony Bloodbath.

太好了。

Great.

真酸啊。

So salty.

尽管我对它们有看法，我还是把这两款游戏都放进了收藏库，因为我想拥有人们喜欢的游戏，即使...是啊。

Both of which I put in the library despite my thoughts on it because I wanna have games that people enjoy even if Yeah.

《深深悔恨》在Dice Tower East展会上被偷了。

Deep Regrets was stolen at Dice Tower East.

但我们又买了一款。

But we got another one.

呃。

Ugh.

如果有人

If anybody is

别偷我的游戏了，各位。

Stop taking my games, people.

任何在图书馆附近想学《月球殖民地大屠杀》的人，我都可以教。

Anybody that's, near the library and wants to be taught moon colony bloodbath, I'm in.

我会教你这个

I'll I'll teach you that

游戏。

one.

它会在游轮上出现。

It will be on the cruise.

不错。

Nice.

好吧。

Alright.

现在进入这个环节，我们可以讨论2025年以外的游戏了。

Now here's the category where we're allowed to talk about games outside 2025.

这是我们玩过的最喜欢的经典游戏

This is our favorite classic that we played

今年。

this year.

官方认可的那款。

Sanctioned one.

唯一官方认可的那款。

The only sanctioned one.

你知道的，打破规则没关系，但这款是我们被允许讨论的。

You know, breaking the rules is fine, but this is the one we're allowed to.

这是一款经典游戏，我们今年玩过的非2025年发布（甚至不是近五年内）却脱颖而出的老游戏，是颗遗珠。

This is a classic, a game we played this year that stood out that isn't published in 2025 or even, like, the last five years or so, an older game that was a gem.

汤姆？

Tom?

我选的那款都快20年了，就是《银河竞逐》。

Mine's mine's almost 20 years old, and that's race for the galaxy.

它真的有将近20年历史了吗？

Is it really almost 20 years old?

是啊。

Yeah.

《领土》是2008年推出的。

Dominion came out in 2008.

你知道吗？

You know?

《领土》都快20年了。

Dominion's almost 20 years old.

《银河竞逐》比《领土》还早。

Race for the Galaxy was before Dominion.

我想大概是六七年前吧。

I think it was, seven or six.

不过，总之

But, anyway

哦，天哪。

Oh, boy.

是啊。

Yeah.

但《银河竞逐》真是一款经典游戏。

But Race for the Galaxy is such a classic game.

今年有几场游戏局我就在想，我受够这些新游戏了。

There was a few game sessions this year where I was like, I'm sick of the new games.

我们要玩些老游戏。

We're playing old stuff.

我玩过许多经典老游戏，但这款游戏让我产生强烈共鸣，以至于我在Dice Tower East展会上四处奔走，主动教人们玩《银河竞逐》，就因为喜欢带人们尝试他们从未玩过的游戏。

And I played a bunch of the old classics, and this is the one that resonated with me so much that I went around at Dice Tower East and started teaching and playing Race for the Galaxy with people just because I like the idea of playing games with people they've not played before.

《波多黎各》也差点入选我的榜单，但我认为《银河竞逐》的经典Jack版本才是我最钟爱的。

And, Puerto Rico almost makes this list for me too, but I think Race for the Galaxy Jack classic just version of it I love so much.

这种桌面构建机制，我特别喜欢。

The tableau building, I like it a lot.

这个选择不错。

That's a good one.

对我来说，我们同时玩《谎言之门》和《Sentient》这两款游戏。

For me, I we play both both I have At the Gates of Lying and Sentient.

这些游戏是无论罗伯特和我状态如何，无论当天情况怎样，无论我们多累，只要我们想玩桌游，而且我不想尝试新游戏时，在我们家总会得到肯定答复的选择。

Those are games that if that Robert will and I will always, no matter what the day will look like, no matter how tower tired we are, if we wanna play a board game and that's and I'm like, I I don't wanna dive into something new or that those are always going to get a yes our house.

我对这两款游戏都非常非常喜欢。

I enjoy both of them incredibly much.

真不错。

So Nice.

是啊。

Yeah.

我最初的本能反应是想说《开拓者卡牌游戏》。

I I originally, my knee jerk reaction was to say the Pathfinder ACG.

过去几个月里我经常提到它。

I've talked about it a lot in the last few months.

我和小儿子重新把它拿出来玩，又点燃了热情。

We brought it out with my youngest and sort of rekindled the fire.

不得不重新学习一下规则，但重新投入几个冒险后感觉确实不错。

Had to relearn the rules a little bit, but got back into a few adventures and was like, yeah.

这依然充满乐趣。

This is still a lot of fun.

但回顾我玩过的游戏，这是经典游戏中最大的惊喜，也是我观点转变最大的一次。

But looking back at what I had played, this was the biggest surprise of a classic game and the biggest change in opinion.

我原本已经否定了你的虚张声势——那款关于虚张声势的卡牌游戏。

I had written off your bluffing, the the bluffing card game.

我曾经拥有过它，但我想它不太合家人口味，我们当时并不怎么喜欢。

I owned it at one point, and I I guess it just bounced off the family, and we didn't really like it.

我放弃了它，直到在骰塔东展上时隔几十年再次玩到，结果非常享受。

I let it go, and I got to play it again at, I think, Dice Tower East for the first time in decades and really enjoyed it.

这确实是个很棒的虚张声势游戏，充满曲折起伏，我重新尝试时玩得非常开心。

It is it is a good bluffing game, with some twists and turns and highs and lows, and I I really had a good time trying it again.

我很高兴自己这么做了，而没有简单地认为‘老一套，没意思’

And I I'm glad I did and didn't just go, been there, done that.

你的虚张声势玩得很开心。

Your bluffing was a good time.

不错。

Nice.

好吧。

Alright.

这是朱莉提出的另一个建议。

This is this is another one that Julie came up with.

她想让我们选一个最喜欢的游戏类型，并挑出其中让我们印象深刻的游戏。

She wanted us to pick one of our favorite genres and pick one of the games that stood out to us.

所以我选择了牌库构筑类。

And so I I went with deck building.

我对《波西米亚》印象非常深刻。

I I was really impressed with Bohemians.

这是Portal Games的新作，因为它完美融入了主题——你扮演巴黎的艺术家，既要努力不搞砸生活，又要坚持艺术创作。

This is the new one from Portal Games Because of the way it embraces the theme, you're an artist in Paris, and you're trying to not screw up your life, but still create art.

而且所有卡牌都有非常奇特的标题名称。

And and all of the cards have some very whimsical titles to them.

游戏目标之一是让父母勉强接受你的新生活。

One of the goals in the game is a begrudging your parents begrudging acceptance of your new life.

光是这一点就值得胜利点数了。

That that's worth victory points right there.

我超爱这个游戏的主题设计。

I love the theming of this game.

主题元素完全融入游戏机制中。

It's very much ingrained in there.

确实很有意思。

It is a good time.

哎呀。

Uh-oh.

但你需要构建牌组，用抽到的卡牌在每日日程网格上拼出图案符号，通过添加缪斯获得加成，还要处理那些负面卡牌——那些阻碍你前进的挫折卡，既要设法从牌组中移除它们，又要通过日常工作避免一开始就获得这些卡。最终将所有元素巧妙组合，在艺术创作过程中高效地获取分数。

But you are you are building a deck and then using those cards that you draw to, sort of puzzle out, make icons, on your grid of of your day, adding muses to add bonuses to those, getting, the the the nasty cards, the, setbacks that are also going to be a hindrance to you and trying to remove those from your deck and not get them in the first place by going to your day job, and and making it all work, puzzling it all together, and, and trying to efficiently earn some points, through the course of of your art.

所以我喜欢它本质上是个牌库构筑游戏，但通过解谜机制做了些很酷的创新，而且主题简直棒极了。

And so I I like how it it is a deck builder at its core, but it does some cool stuff with the puzzling nature, and the theme is just fantastic.

游戏还要求你讲述你的一天，这在我这里很加分。

It also tells you to narrate your day, which gets it bonus points in my book.

没人真会那么做吧？

No one does that, do they?

这是我今年最喜欢的牌库构筑游戏，《波西米亚人》。

That's my favorite deck builder of the year, Bohemians.

我还没玩过，但光是听描述就觉得非常棒。

I so I haven't played it, but just from the description, that sounds fantastic.

这个主题确实很有趣。

It's a fun theme for sure.

是啊。

Yeah.

没错。

Yeah.

对我来说，今年我玩得最多的

For me, I played overwhelmingly this year.

数量最多的类型是解谜游戏。

The most of a genre was puzzle games.

嗯哼。

Mhmm.

我玩了多家出版商推出的许多解谜游戏，其中绝大多数都很享受。

I played lots of them from multiple publishers, and I enjoyed the vast majority of them.

但最终赢得这个类别的是Post Curious出品的《命运之线》，这是规模较大的作品之一。

But the one that has to who won who won the category was a post curious game, Threads of Fate, which is one of the bigger ones.

你需要分多个会话来完成它。

It you're gonna be doing it for several sessions.

所有Post Curious游戏都包含解谜元素，但叙事部分做得非常出色，与谜题设计完美融合。

You're all of post curious games take have the puzzle part of it, but the narrative is done very well working into what the puzzles are.

这款游戏涉及大量散布在世界各地的北欧符文石，这些石头本身就是一个未解之谜——我们至今仍未弄清它们被放置的规律或原因。

This one, deals with a lot of the, Norse rune stones that have been placed around the world and how that is a mystery already that we haven't figured out why the rhyme or reason of why they were placed all the time.

所以这是人们投入时间研究的一个课题。

And so that is a research thing that people spend time on.

顺着这个思路，游戏中有一位研究员在研究这些符文石时失踪了，而你要查明他遭遇了什么。

Leaning into that, you have a researcher who has disappeared while trying to research them, and you're trying to figure out what happened to them.

因此这是我最喜欢的一款游戏。

And so that was my favorite.

我的亚军选择是《逃离冒险日历》，因为我买来送给侄子当生日礼物，自己也留了一份。

My runner-up was the exit advent calendar because I bought it for my nephew for his birthday, and then I have a copy.

我们每天解一道谜题，虽然他住在马萨诸塞州，而我在印第安纳州。

And every day, we do one of the puzzles because he lives in Massachusetts, and I'm in Indiana.

所以我们得以远程共同完成这个冒险日历游戏。

So we get to play do an advent calendar, but remotely.

而且

And

这很酷。

That is cool.

这东西价格不菲，但毕竟是给他的生日礼物。

That is pricey, but it was his birthday present.

所以这算是奢侈了一把，但这是我们能一起做的事情。

And, therefore, it was it was a splurge, but it was it was something that we could do together.

他现在刚上高中一年级。

And he is now a freshman in high school.

在我看来，一个高一学生还愿意和你一起做事、一起阅读、一起解谜题，这本身就很有意义。

And having a freshman in high school still wanna do something with you and read together and do a puzzle together is is worth it in my book.

这就是我的大致情况。

That's So that's my runaround.

是啊。

Yeah.

没错。

Yeah.

我订了其中一款——Post Curious的大盒冒险系列，明年到货。

I got one of those, post curious big box adventures coming next year.

这将是我的第一个大型盒装冒险游戏。

It'll be my first big box one.

我对此非常兴奋，因为他们的制作水准相当一流。

I'm very excited about it because their their production is pretty top notch.

是的。

Yes.

确实如此。

It is.

绝对没错。

Absolutely.

或者我喜欢地牢探险类游戏，最近这类游戏很多。

Or I like Dungeon Crawls, and there's a lot of them these days.

没错。

Yes.

确实有很多。

There are.

我认为《Rogue》对我来说是最出彩的一个。

I think rogue is the one that stands out for me the most.

顺便说一句，今年出了两款叫《Rogue》的游戏。

Incidentally, two games called rogue came out this year.

其中一款是Button Shy Games出的。

One came out from button shy games.

不是那个版本。

That's not the one.

那个版本可以放进口袋里。

That one fits in your pocket.

这个版本能塞进你的别克车。

This one fits in your, Buick.

俗气的小型地牢探险游戏。

Cheesy tiny dungeon crawl.

但《Rogue》就是...它真的超级有趣。

But rogue is a just it it's so much fun.

它就像《幽港迷城》但更有趣。

It's like Gloomhaven but funner.

我知道这听起来对《幽港迷城》有些负面。

And I know that sounds negative towards Gloomhaven.

我并非有意如此。

I don't mean it to be.

我认为《幽港迷城》是个很棒的游戏，但它在很多方面限制很多，而《Rogue》感觉解除了这些限制。

I think Gloomhaven's a fantastic game, but Gloomhaven is very restrictive in many ways, and Row feels like it releases those restrictions.

你可以享受这种有趣的卡牌战斗，与怪物战斗等等，而不必担心‘哦，我用过那张牌了’。

You get to do this fun card combat and fight monsters and all sorts of things and not go, oh, I used that card.

我，我犯了个错误。

I, I made a mistake.

我们永远无法从中恢复。

We'll never recover from this.

里面还有很多有趣的事情可做。

There's still lots of fun things to do in it.

我真的很喜欢它。

I just enjoy it a lot.

这绝对是对《幽港迷城》的致敬，但《Rogue》对我来说确实很突出。

It's definitely an homage to Gloomhaven, but Rogue really stood out for me.

我其实和Buttonshire展位的一位代表聊过《Rogue》，谈到名字混淆的问题，以及它和他们那款钱包游戏有多么不同。

I actually talked with the guy at Buttonshire, the one of the the reps at the booth, about Rogue and the name confusion and how, you know, it was very different from their wallet game.

他们宣布将会推出一个更大的《Rogue》盒子版本。

And they announced that there is going to be a rogue larger box.

所以我一直称它为

So I kept referring to

天哪。

Oh my word.

这款游戏，汤姆，我称之为大盒版《Rogue》，他却以为我在说他们那款钱包游戏的豪华版《Rogue》。

This this game, Tom, as big box rogue, and he thought I was talking about their deluxe edition of rogue, the the wallet game.

那是一场非常混乱的对话，我在说这个，他却在说那个。

And it was a very confusing conversation, and I was talking about things, and he was talking about thing.

所以实际上有三个Rove版本。

So there's there's really three roves.

可能还不止这些。

There's probably more.

总之，天啊。

Anyway Oh, man.

我不知道该怎么回应这个。

I don't know how to respond to that.

我现在感觉不太好。

I I feel bad now.

我刚在想Rogue、Rogue、Rove这些游戏。

I just started thinking rogue, rogue, rove, the game.

尺寸是多少？好吧。

What size is Okay.

我就先这样吧

I'm just gonna

好的。

Okay.

是的。

Yes.

明白了。

Alright.

现在是我们年度重磅奖项揭晓时刻，汤姆最期待的环节来了——年度最大惊喜奖。

It's time for our big superlatives, and here's Tom's favorite, the hoop, our biggest surprise of the year.

汤姆，你想第一个发言吗？

Tom, you wanna go first?

好。

Yeah.

所以埃里克需要去Spooktacular剧院一趟，在那里他会被剧院里的某个东西干掉。

So Eric needs to visit the theater in Spooktacular where he will get killed by something in the theater.

对。

Yeah.

《惊悚嘉年华》真是个有趣的游戏。

Spooktacular, just such a fun game.

我没想到第九十九关会设计得如此独特，这款游戏和他们其他作品完全不同。

I I wasn't Level ninety nine makes a very specific type of games, and this one is not like their other games.

他们的游戏通常带有浓厚的动漫风格。

Their games had, like, a very anime bent.

这款游戏纯粹是五六十年代恐怖电影风格，但这次你是从银幕里爬出来猎杀影院观众的怪物。

This one's just good old fashioned fifty sixties horror movies, but you are the creatures coming out of the screens and disposing of the people in the theater.

每个反派，无论是杀人杀人汽车、杀人小丑还是杀人机器人（反正都是杀人狂），都拥有不同的能力，这种非对称对抗非常有趣。

And every bad guy, whether it's a killer car or a killer clown or a killer robot, I guess they're all killer or something, they they have different abilities, very asymmetrical game, and a lot of fun.

《惊悚嘉年华》。

Spooktacular.

最有趣的是每次探索都会遇到新惊喜，不同玩家组合会带来截然不同的游戏体验。

It's fun just to explore all those different everyone's a surprise in a different play every time you're playing with a different group.

是的。

Yeah.

而且它的盒子尺寸非常合理，能装下这么多内容物。

And it also fits in a very reasonable box for how much content you get.

是啊。

Yeah.

我的是《奇境》，你要把各种杂交动物放在不同区域，它们会得分。

Mine was Oddland, where you are place you are placing animals that are mash up animals on different regions, and they score points.

这是个非常直白的概念，但美术设计对我来说太0太荒诞了，玩起来很开心。

It's a very straightforward concept, but the art was just so ridiculous for me, and it made me happy playing it.

所以这是另一款轻量级游戏，适合所有人玩。

So this is another lightweight this is all play, an all play game.

而且不是他们最小的盒子，属于中等偏小的尺寸。

And one of their not their tiny ones, but the still the small box, not the smallest box.

说到盒子尺寸会越说越乱的。

This is gonna get confusing with box

尺寸讨论。

size conversation.

这是个大家伙。

It's a big box.

你有一组固定数量的动物。

So you have a set number of animals.

你拿起一块板块，必须放置它。

You pick up a tile, and you must place it.

一旦放置，那只动物就算完成了。

So once you place it, that animal is is done.

你不能改变主意。

You can't change your mind.

每个人也都在周围放置他们的地图板块。

And everybody is also pay placing their map tiles around.

其变化之处在于，你知道，板块放置非常关键，别人可能会通过放置他们想要的板块来挤掉你的分数，然后他们必须在完整地图计分后放置他们的动物。

So the shifting part of it being, you know, very on tile placement where people can edge you out of points because they've placed the tile they want, and then they have to place their animal once the full map is done scoring the points.

非常简单，但那些动物的艺术设计和混搭让它对我来说非常滑稽可笑。

It's very simple, but the art and the mashup of the animals just makes it very goofy and silly for me.

酷。

Cool.

酷。

Cool.

当我第一次看到Playpunk的《Zenith》时，这是一款双人或四人拔河游戏。

When I first got a look at Zenith from Playpunk, it's a two player or four player tug of war game.

我当时就觉得，嗯。

I was like, yeah.

这个挺有意思的。

This is neat.

我喜欢。

I like it.

我喜欢这种氛围。

It's I like the vibe.

确实挺酷的。

It was it was pretty cool.

它其实就有点，你知道的，中规中矩。

It was just sort of a, you know, middling.

是啊。

Yeah.

正面评价。

Positive.

我挺喜欢的。

I liked it.

前几次玩的时候确实感觉挺不错的。

And the first couple of plays were, yeah, good stuff.

但之后我有更多机会深入体验这款游戏，大部分是在桌游平台上玩的——这功能确实很方便，当然线下实体版也玩了不少。

But I have had a chance to play this a lot more since then, and a lot of it on board game arena, which is is very helpful to to throw that up there, but physically as well.

这游戏设计得真的很棒，提供了多种获胜路径，比如你可以专注攻略某一颗行星。

And this is such a cool game, in in multiple paths of victory that you can, focus on one planet.

你需要通过卡牌策略，把这些行星‘拔河’到你方版图一侧来获取优势。

You're you're you got these planets that you're trying to tug of war toward your side of the board, and most of that's gonna be through the play of cards.

你可以直接打出卡牌来将标记朝你方向移动，并触发某种需要花费金币的能力，或者你也可以消耗卡牌来研发一项科技。

And you can play the card just to simply move the tokens toward you and trigger some sort of ability that costs coins, or you can spend the card to do a technology.

这里有一条具有连锁效应的科技轨道。

There's a technology track that has cascading, effects.

你在轨道上走得越远，就能先触发这项能力，然后是下方的能力，接着再下方的能力，以此类推。

So the farther you go up the track, you get to, trigger this ability, then the one below it, then the one below it, then the one below it.

因此如果你全力推进到轨道顶端，就能实现一些非常强大的效果，或者你也可以选择免费弃牌获得一个小奖励，但在回合结束时抽取更多卡牌。

So if you really push up there, you get to do some really big things, or you can simply discard it for free and get a little minor bonus, but draw more cards, at the end of your turn.

你就是在进行一场拔河比赛，争夺这些标记物。

And you're just trying to tug of war, these these tokens.

如果你获得三个相同的、四个完全不同的或者仅仅五个标记物，你就赢得游戏。

And if you get three of the same, four that are totally different or just five tokens, you win the game.

同时要追踪所有这些得分途径，多种获胜方式，整个游戏流程非常顺畅。

And keeping track of all of those avenues, those multiple ways of scoring, the the multiple victories, it just really flows.

这一切在我脑海中都完美契合。

It all clicks in my head.

这种动漫风格的插画非常可爱。

The, anime style art is very cute.

卡牌的名字都很有趣。

The names of the cards are fun.

整个流程行云流水，就像精密的钟表般严丝合缝。

It it flows and and just really clicks like a fine watch.

所以《Zenith》确实是个惊喜，它意外成为了我今年的年度最佳游戏——初次见到时完全没料到会这样。

So Zenith was a surprise and is actually my favorite game of the year, and I didn't expect it to be when I first saw it.

不错。

Nice.

酷。

Cool.

好吧。

Alright.

让我们继续吐槽吧。

Let's get grumpy again.

是时候揭晓年度最尖锐的批评了。

Time for the sharpest thorn of the year.

看，现在这样就说得通了。

See, now that makes sense.

游戏实在太多了。

There are so many games.

你可真刻薄啊，汤姆先生。

You're a mean one, mister Tom.

我最爱圣诞节了。

I love Christmas.

我只是讨厌糟糕的命名。

I just hate bad naming.

说到这个，天哪。

Anyway, speaking of that, oh my word.

让我来聊聊《感觉自己像个傻瓜》这款游戏。

Let me talk about Feel Like a Fool.

嗯

Mhmm.

《感觉像个傻瓜》，由优秀的出版商Cradio Creations出品

Feel Like a Fool, which is from a good publisher, Cradio Creations.

但《感觉像个傻瓜》这款游戏里Eric就是Eric，你还记得那首《我喜欢E E E E Epples和Beninis》的歌吗？

But Feel Like a Fool is a game where Eric is Eric, do you remember the song I Like to E E E E Eples and Beninis?

对

Yeah.

对

Yeah.

对

Yeah.

我喜欢那首

I like that one.

是啊

Yeah.

我确定你喜欢。

I'm sure you do.

经典之作。

A classic.

经典之作。

A classic.

但这个游戏把它提升到了11级。

But this game takes that to 11.

它的玩法是给你一个单词。

So what it does is it gives you a word.

假设单词是大象，然后你有一个元音，可能是你。

Let's say the word is elephant, and then you have a vowel, which might be you.

所以你需要让人们猜出大象是什么，但你必须把所有单词中的元音都替换成你。

So you need to get people to guess what an elephant is, but you must turn all the vowels in your words to use.

这对不发音的e意味着什么？

What does that mean for silent e's?

游戏没有解释这一点。

The game doesn't explain.

如果我能说'哦'或'啊'呢？

What if can I say oh or ah?

游戏同样没有解释这个。

The game also doesn't explain that.

但它确实会让你发出这样的声音。

But what it does make you sound is like this.

所以你说话听起来就像那样，人们就会想，你知道吗？

And so you sound like that, and people are like, you know what?

干脆别说了，我们换个游戏玩吧。

Just stop talking, and let's get a different game out.

所以你就这么做了。

So that's what you do.

我太讨厌这个了。

I hate it so much.

这是但是

This is But

这是颅骨吗？

this was a cranio?

是的。

Yes.

但不仅如此，光是那样就已经够糟了。

But not only is it that, like, that's bad as it is.

但当你让人猜词时，你要翻开中间的方块，试图拼出一个单词。

But then when you get someone to guess the word, you turn over a tile in the middle, and you're trying to spell a word.

哦，对。

Oh, yeah.

不。

No.

你要找出所有的元音字母，a e i o u。

You're trying to get all the vowels, a e I o u.

你可能得不到一个元音字母。

You might not get a vowel.

有些是空白的。

There were some that are blank.

比如，哦，我们拿到了，但什么都没有。

Like, oh, we got it, but nothing.

嘿。

Hey.

我记得这个规则最初是在《Trivial Pursuit》里引入的，当时大家也都觉得那是个愚蠢的规则。

I remember when that was first introduced in trivial pursuit, and everyone thinks that's a stupid rule there too.

至少《Trivial Pursuit》还有不错的益智问答部分。

At least trivial pursuit has a good trivial part to it.

我讨厌这个游戏。

I hate this game.

太糟糕了。

So bad.

感觉自己像个傻瓜。

Feel like a fool.

名副其实。

Properly named.

嗯哼。

Uh-huh.

嗯哼。

Uh-huh.

嗯哼。

Uh-huh.

朱莉？

Julie?

好吧。

Okay.

首先，我本不该玩这个游戏的，因为年初我提到要评测它时，汤姆就说：'你居然玩过这个，我太震惊了'。

So one, I should have known better than play it because even when I talked about reviewing it back in beginning of the year, Tom said, I'm shocked that you even played this.

公平地说，各位要持保留态度，这款游戏不适合我，那就是《Lynx》。

So to be fair, grain of salt, folks, this was not a game for me, and that was Lynx.

我们应该拼写为l y n x，因为有很多游戏都叫Lynx。

We should spell it l y n x because there's a lot of games called Lynx.

确实如此。

That's very true.

不是的。

Not yes.

L y n x。

L y n x.

游戏中你扮演一名猎取动物毛皮的捕兽者，这个主题本身就不适合我。

The the you are a trapper hunting for animal pelts, which just thematically isn't for me.

但就玩法而言，我不打算过多批评它。

But also gameplay, it I'm not I'm not I'm not gonna drag it too much.

对我来说，它的游戏时长远远超出了实际可玩性。

I it went for me, it out it outlived its playtime by quite a bit.

我们玩到一半就停下来了，觉得已经够了。

We stopped halfway through the game and said that was enough of this.

所以这游戏不适合我。

So I it was not the game for me.

这是我遇到最棘手的难题，

It was my thorniest thorn,

确实。

for sure.

我在《Journey to Tirnah Nogue》里的谜题上栽了大跟头，那本来是我的首选。

I, I bounced off the puzzles in Journey to Tirnah Nogue pretty hard, and that was going to be my pick.

但后来回想起来，我想到了《快乐露营者》里的唐老鸭，这是另一个与迪士尼角色毫无关系的游戏的重制版。

But then looking back, I remember Donald Duck in Happy Camper, which is a retheming of another game that had nothing to do with Disney characters.

角色。

Characters.

这个游戏被重制成看似家庭轻量级的冒险游戏，几乎算是儿童游戏，但实际上限制比那多得多。

And and so this has been rethemed into what appears to be a family weight, you know, adventure game, a kid's game almost, but is far more restrictive than that.

让我觉得棘手的是，我明明串联起了一系列超有趣的操作——在棋盘上巧妙走位、运用技能，感觉就要打出制胜一击时，游戏却突然说：不行。

And what made this a thorn for me is that I strung together some really fun stuff and maneuvering around the board and using my powers and really felt like I was doing a winning move and then realized the game said, no.

规则规定你只能在移动前或移动后触发技能，但不能在回合进行时使用。

You can't do that because there's all these rules about when you can trigger your ability.

这些限制彻底打乱了我的计划。

You can only do that before you move or after you move and not during your turn.

结果我刚刚完成的所有精彩解谜操作，全被游戏否决了。

And so all of this awesome puzzle solving that I had just done, no.

游戏直接一盆冷水浇下来，冷酷地拒绝了我的策略。

The game smacked me down and said, no.

系统无情地判定：此路不通。

You can't do that.

这种体验让我非常不爽。

And I didn't like that.

真的非常不爽。

I didn't.

这就是《快乐露营者》里的唐老鸭。

That's Donald Duck in Happy Camper.

它比表面上看起来要烧脑得多，系统限制也严格得多，完全不像包装盒上那些快乐露营者展现的那样。

It just it's far more it's far more thinky and restrictive of a system than it would appear from the happy campers on the box.

我认为这个游戏的问题在于，从客观角度看它对桌游圈是个糟糕的游戏，因为人们会去店里买它。

Problem with this game is I think it's a bad game objectively for the hobby because people are gonna go into the store and buy it.

他们会说，我爱唐老鸭。

And they're like, I love Donald Duck.

然后他们玩过之后就会问，这是什么玩意儿？

Then And they're gonna play and go, what is this?

是啊。

And Yeah.

这会让人们远离桌游，我很不喜欢这样。

And that will turn people away from gaming, and I dislike that.

是啊。

Yeah.

我我我无法反驳这一点。

I I I can't disagree with that one.

对此非常恼火。

Very mad at it.

是啊。

Yeah.

没错。

Yeah.

对。

Yeah.

是的。

Yeah.

你不想让人们因为桌游而生气。

You don't want people mad at board games.

正确。

Correct.

好的。

Alright.

好的。

Alright.

我需要一个花团锦簇的终章，一个华丽的终章，就像人们说的，最玫瑰的玫瑰。

I need I need I need a a flowery finale, a glitzy finale, as they say, the rosiest rose.

说吧，埃里克，因为你的可以归入别人讨厌的游戏那一类。

Go ahead, Eric, because yours is you could have put yours under the, games other people hate.

你知道么？

You know what?

我大概可以这么做

I probably could have done

的。

that.

有争议。

Controversial.

确实如此。

It really is.

所以Vantage就是我要说的游戏。

So Vantage is the game I'm talking about.

这是一款探索类游戏，就这样。

This is an exploration game, period.

你将在一颗星球上紧急迫降。

You are crash landing on a planet.

你会拿到一张卡片，上面是你对世界的个人视角，然后你可以采取一些行动。

You are given a card that is your individual perspective of what the world is, and then you have actions you can take.

这些行动都列在卡片侧面。

You can there's they're listed on the side of the card.

你看到一块长相滑稽的石头，你可以踢它。

You see a funny looking rock, and you can kick the rock.

你可以观察这块石头。

You can observe the rock.

你可以和石头说话。

You can talk to the rock.

你可以做所有这些事情，然后会生成一个故事书条目，并带来某种后果。

You can do all these things, and that leads to a storybook, entry and, some sort of consequences.

你需要掷一些骰子，根据你尝试执行的动作难度，可能需要掷更多骰子。

You need to roll some dice, and depending on how difficult the action is you're trying to do, you're rolling more dice.

然后你可以用角色卡吸收这些骰子的结果来减轻负面影响，但剩余的骰子仍会导致你损失士气、健康、时间等。

You can then soak up the results of those dice on your little character card to make it less bad, but any dice remaining are gonna cause you to lose morale, health, time, etcetera.

你要在这个世界中探索并尝试完成一个主要目标。

And you work your way through the world and try to solve a a major goal.

途中你还能发现其他目标，尝试解决它们，提升装备，结识人物并与他们交谈，与世界互动。

And then you can, along the way, find other goals and try and solve those as well and improve your stuff and meet people and talk to people and interact with the world.

但游戏开始时提供给你的内容并不多。

But there's not a lot that you are presented with at the beginning of the game.

这是一款需要摸索的游戏，按各种按钮看看会发生什么。

You this is a stumble about sort of game and push buttons and see what they do.

我超爱这一点。

I love that.

我热爱不知道下一个转角会遇到什么，期待探索未知，爬上高树只为看清自己的处境。

I love not knowing what is around the next corner, looking to see what's there, climbing a tall tree to get a better look at what I'm doing.

这真的很酷。

It's really cool.

这款游戏完全戳中了我的所有喜好点。

And this this pushes all of the buttons for me.

太爱这个游戏了。

Love this game.

有些玩家玩不下去就是因为目标太模糊了。

Others have bounced off of it because those goals are so nebulous.

他们会觉得：我到底在这干嘛？

They feel like, well, what am I even doing here?

我只是在到处闲逛。

I'm just walking around.

我老是撞到东西。

I'm bumping into stuff.

我...我不...如果你真的朝着目标努力，也许能很快实现，但其他游戏里你做不到这样，只能指望偶然遇到那些宏大的史诗级目标。

I I don't I and if you really push toward your goal, maybe you can achieve it really fast, but other games, you're not gonna get to do that, and you're just hoping to run into one of those major epic goals.

但我就是喜欢这样。

But I love that.

这种四处探索的感觉，以及整个世界的呈现方式是什么？

The the looking around and and the fact that there is this whole world represented by what?

就像有1700张卡片可以让我浏览探索，多款游戏会向我透露一些世界观，告诉我哪些可行哪些不可行。

Like 1,700 cards that I can look around and explore and and see and multiple games tell me a little bit about the world and tell me what works and what doesn't in there.

天啊。

Oh, man.

我还想继续玩。

I wanna play more.

优势。

Vantage.

这是我今年最美好的期待。

That is my rosiest rose of the year.

你和我应该一起玩。

You and I should play.

是啊。

Yeah.

我

I

我也真的很喜欢这个游戏。

also I really like this game too.

所以

So

它非常有趣。

It was very fun.

但本质上它是个叙事游戏，喜欢与否因人而异。

But it is a storytelling game at its heart, and you either enjoy those or don't.

是啊。

Yeah.

朱莉，你呢？

Julie, what about you?

我还行吧。

For me alright.

所以我在这里列了Maj，它今年不会推出。

So I have listed here for Maj, which was not coming out this year.

那就选Formagio吧。

So let's say Formagio.

对。

Yeah.

就这么说定了。

Let's say that.

对我来说这两者都是这样，它就是Formage。

Both of those have this for me, it is it it was Formage.