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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shadows Of The Past

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shadows of the Past is a scenario-driven campaign game that features story content from the IDW TMNT comic. One player takes on the role of the ultimate villain Shredder, while the others take the role of their favorite Turtle. The Turtle players bat...

Players

2-5

Time

60-90

Age

14+

Weight

2.74

Rating

7.38

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Moderate interaction

Teach 2.6

Teaching signal

Replay 4.1

High replayability

Interaction 3.8

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.0

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 2.3

Luck-sensitive

Table feel

Moderate interaction

Replay value

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shadows of the Past offers a high level of variability with its gameboard, allowing for different experiences each time it is played. The presence of expansions adds new content and gameplay elements, enhancing replay value. The game also provides deep strategic possibilities and room for players to improve their tactics over time. With good scalability and moderate easiness to learn, the game achieves a solid replayability score of 8.1.

Luck profile

The final luck score for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shadows of the Past is 4.67, indicating a moderate influence of luck in the game. Random elements such as dice rolls and card draws have a notable impact on the game outcome, but players have substantial ability to mitigate randomness through strategic decisions and planning. The game is a balanced mix of luck and strategy, with luck playing a significant role but not heavily determining the game's outcome.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shadows of the Past is a scenario-driven campaign game that features story content from the IDW TMNT comic. One player takes on the role of the ultimate villain Shredder, while the others take the role of their favorite Turtle. The Turtle players battle their way through a series of 60-90 minute missions in which they develop their characters' strengths, fighting styles, and equipment along the way to create a lasting story arc. Fan-favorite characters like Casey Jones and Alopex appear throughout the missions as the Turtles call on their closest allies for help in battling their deadliest foes.

Category

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Comic Book / Strip Fighting Miniatures

Mechanism

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Dice Rolling Grid Movement Hand Management Modular Board Team-Based Game Variable Player Powers

Family

6
Animals: Turtles Category: Dungeon Crawler Comic Books: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Components: Miniatures Crowdfunding: Kickstarter Mechanism: Campaign Games

Type

1
Thematic

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Credits

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Designers

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Kevin Wilson

Artists

3
Jose David Lanza Cebrian Kevin Eastman Tony Vargas

Publishers

1
IDW Games

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