The tables in this are just fantastic. The character prompts especially are very thoughtfully made! It felt like a game I didn't need to put any particular meta-effort in to to land reliably on a satisfying, integrated story and tone - the guiding stars mechanic is definitely a big part of that, and I like the guidance to let that guiding star emerge from the starting conversation. Determining the time of day for each scene also goes soo far to easily suggest a vibe. In ours that interacted really well with a diner employee with the early riser trait :) I ended up very fond of the characters we made, and I'd definitely play more rounds as a reliable, fairly short, chill oneshot.
played a one-shot of this a year ago that i still think about to this day. the way the game encourages everyone to build on each other's stories and weird guys they make up means it's an absolute blast to play. in our game, we ended the night with the last visitor being the divorced ex who was hunting down our first frantic visitor of the shift. and between all the fun of creating the visitors, it's even more fun to use them to flesh out the people working at the diner and tie their shift together at the end. this game knows exactly how much fun playing pretend with friends is and does everything it can to make it an even better experience
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The tables in this are just fantastic. The character prompts especially are very thoughtfully made! It felt like a game I didn't need to put any particular meta-effort in to to land reliably on a satisfying, integrated story and tone - the guiding stars mechanic is definitely a big part of that, and I like the guidance to let that guiding star emerge from the starting conversation. Determining the time of day for each scene also goes soo far to easily suggest a vibe. In ours that interacted really well with a diner employee with the early riser trait :) I ended up very fond of the characters we made, and I'd definitely play more rounds as a reliable, fairly short, chill oneshot.
played a one-shot of this a year ago that i still think about to this day. the way the game encourages everyone to build on each other's stories and weird guys they make up means it's an absolute blast to play. in our game, we ended the night with the last visitor being the divorced ex who was hunting down our first frantic visitor of the shift. and between all the fun of creating the visitors, it's even more fun to use them to flesh out the people working at the diner and tie their shift together at the end. this game knows exactly how much fun playing pretend with friends is and does everything it can to make it an even better experience