{"id":274521,"date":"2023-04-14T07:59:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T12:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/?post_type=reviews&#038;p=274521"},"modified":"2023-04-13T22:23:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T03:23:40","slug":"regicide","status":"publish","type":"reviews","link":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/reviews\/regicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Regicide Game Review"},"content":{"rendered":"    <div class=\"amzn-ad amzn-enhanced-links-small\">\n        <div>\n            <div class=\"amzn-product\">\n                <span class=\"amzn-product-image-container\">\n                    <div class=\"amzn-product-image-holder\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"amzn-product-image lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41KtK+J2+tL._SL300_.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"amzn-product-image\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41KtK+J2+tL._SL300_.jpg\"><\/noscript>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/span>\n                <div class=\"amzn-product-title-container\">\n                    <a rel=\"sponsored\" class=\"amzn-product-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B08QDYCNPK?tag=meeplmount-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1\" target=\"_blank\">\n                        <span class=\"amzn-product-title-text\" title=\"TGG Games Regicide - Teal Box\">TGG Games Regicide - Teal Box<\/span>\n                    <\/a>\n                    <div class=\"amzn-product-price\">\n                        <span class=\"amzn-product-offer-price\">$15.90<\/span>\n                                            <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"amzn-product-buy-now-link-box\">\n                    <a rel=\"sponsored\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B08QDYCNPK?tag=meeplmount-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"amzn-product-buy-now-link\">\n                        Buy Now\n                    <\/a>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n<p>I had heard so much about the card game <i>Regicide<\/i> (2020, Badgers from Mars), but it was impossible to get when it was first released. Then I learned that all you needed was a standard deck of cards, so you could just download the rules online.<\/p>\n<p>Not me. I wanted to get a copy of the game because I just thought the game\u2019s artwork was super slick. I\u2019ve got a bunch of standard-issue decks here at the house, but none of those decks feature artwork that is really evocative. We reached out to the publisher and they were kind enough to send a review copy, and now that I\u2019ve played it a number of times (at all player counts), I have to give credit where credit is due: <i>Regicide<\/i> is ridiculously hard, but it\u2019s just <i>easy<\/i> enough to make you think you can win.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never won a game of <i>Regicide<\/i>. But I know if I just play one\u2026more\u2026time, I can beat it. (Maybe.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-274524 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-wp-pid=\"274524\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-2-225x300.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 225w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-2.jpg?size=528x704&amp;lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 528w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-2-600x800.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 600w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-2-768x1024.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 768w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-2-990x1320.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 990w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-2.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1125w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 768px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 768\/1024;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-274524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-wp-pid=\"274524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-2-225x300.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 225w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-2.jpg?size=528x704&amp;lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 528w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-2-600x800.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 600w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-2-768x1024.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 768w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-2-990x1320.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 990w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-2.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<h2>Storm the Castle<\/h2>\n<p>The intent behind <i>Regicide<\/i> is simple. The \u201cface\u201d cards of the deck are standing in line at a castle, and you plus up to three other players are trying to recruit heroes to storm the castle and take down the Jacks, Queens and Kings in your way.<\/p>\n<p>You and your teammates each have your own hand of cards, and need to use those cards to damage the current face card while also discarding cards as you take damage. Each turn plays out the same way. The active player plays a single card from their hand, or a single card plus an ace, to deal damage equal to the sum of the played cards. (Play an eight of clubs, and you\u2019ll do eight points of damage.)<\/p>\n<p>Then, you trigger an ability based on the suit. Hearts let you add cards from the discard pile to the draw deck. Diamonds let you draw cards from the draw deck, which are distributed across all players. Clubs double the damage of the card you played on this hand. And spades provide defense for this and future turns against the active face card.<\/p>\n<p>Those face cards range in both attack power and health points. Jacks have an attack power of 10, and a health count of 20. Queens: 15 attack, 30 health. Kings: 20 attack, and 40 health. Late in a game of <i>Regicide<\/i>, things really feel stacked against the players unless they have defeated then recruited face cards in earlier turns. (If players ever defeat a face card by reducing its health to exactly zero, that face card is placed on the top of the draw deck, ensuring it will end up in the hands of the players to use against the impending doom of the castle deck.)<\/p>\n<p>Games of <i>Regicide<\/i> can end two ways: players defeat all 12 face cards, or any player runs out of cards. In my experience, games only end one way: with me losing, usually at the hands of the second or third King in the castle deck.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-274525 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-wp-pid=\"274525\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-1-225x300.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 225w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-1.jpg?size=528x704&amp;lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 528w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-1-600x800.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 600w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-1-768x1024.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 768w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-1-990x1320.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 990w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-1.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1125w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 768px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 768\/1024;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-274525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-wp-pid=\"274525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-1-225x300.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 225w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-1.jpg?size=528x704&amp;lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 528w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-1-600x800.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 600w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-1-768x1024.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 768w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-1-990x1320.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 990w, https:\/\/b1803394.smushcdn.com\/1803394\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Regicide-1.jpg?lossy=1&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 1125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<h2>\u201cI Would Be Very Surprised If You Can Win\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>This quote, on my wife\u2019s second turn of her first game of <i>Regicide<\/i>, has stuck with me during all of my subsequent plays. That\u2019s because while I know it\u2019s possible to win at <i>Regicide<\/i>, it feels like it will take a miracle for the card draw gods to line up all of the luck you\u2019ll need.<\/p>\n<p>I love the concept here; why <i>wouldn\u2019t<\/i> I want to fight my way through a deck of cards to try and beat the bad guys? Games only take 10-15 minutes, in part because you are going to lose this game way more often than you will win. Once you have the rules down, it\u2019s easy to move between turns and it\u2019s fun to work with team members in a format where you are not allowed to share specifics of your individual hands.<\/p>\n<p>The best part: you will often lose a game of <i>Regicide<\/i> near the very, very end. I always thought that the best video games get progressively tougher, then get really hard near the end. You feel like you want to beat the game, but you just can\u2019t get over the hump. What do you need to tweak to change your fortunes?<\/p>\n<p><i>Regicide<\/i> has that X factor, and something tells me that if I ever win, I\u2019m going to nerd out and post something on Instagram like \u201cI finally did it! I beat <i>Regicide<\/i> on my last card of the game! Suck it, King of Diamonds!!!\u201d to followers who will mostly continue scrolling past my claims of glory. No matter. I will take solace in the fact that I proved all of the haters wrong (of course, there are no real haters) by beating such a tough game.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what I\u2019ll do next? I\u2019ll play <i>Regicide<\/i> again, one more time, just to see if it wasn\u2019t a fluke. Maybe I can start a winning streak!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin reviews the \u201cchallenging cooperative card game\u201d Regicide, from Badgers from Mars!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":274526,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"coauthors":[6089],"class_list":["post-274521","reviews","type-reviews","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-card-games","category-fantasy-board-games","designers-andy-richdale","designers-luke-badger","designers-paul-abrahams","mechanisms-communication-limits","mechanisms-cooperative-game","mechanisms-hand-management","mechanisms-solo-solitaire-game","mechanisms-variable-set-up","publishers-badgers-from-mars","publishers-boardm-factory","publishers-devir","publishers-hobby-japan","artists-sketchgoblin","release_year-2436"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Regicide Game Review &#8212; Meeple Mountain<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Justin reviews the \u201cchallenging cooperative card game\u201d Regicide, from Badgers from Mars!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/reviews\/regicide\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/reviews\/regicide\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Board Game Reviews\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/reviews\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Regicide Game Review\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Regicide Game Review &#8212; Meeple Mountain","description":"Justin reviews the \u201cchallenging cooperative card game\u201d Regicide, from Badgers from Mars!","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/reviews\/regicide\/","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/reviews\/regicide\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Board Game Reviews","item":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/reviews\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Regicide Game Review"}]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reviews\/274521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reviews"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reviews"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reviews\/274521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274521"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=274521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}