Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
We delve into this huge social deduction game, Nemesis Retaliation! This is the 3rd installment of the Nemesis Ameritrash series from Awaken Realms, which has lots of items and asymmetry inside a sci-fi world. Will the aliens destroy your team of marines, trying to explore the facility to do their hidden agendas? What will your dice rolls be to make sure the aliens don’t spawn on you and attack you? Oh, the horror. You must run through corridors, making sure you don’t die from contamination too (player elimination does exist). There’s even a solo/cooperative variant for those more euro-minded. How is the replayability with the modular board?
This game was massively profitable on Gamefound, but with all of the add-ons and crowdfunding news, is the finished product any good? How is the Sangrevores expansion? Did Awaken Realms provide a compelling package with nice miniatures and chits? We also cover the Neoflesh cult, Xyrians, and support squad boxes.
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Table of Contents:
Overview - (0:00)
How to Play - (1:56)
Pros - (4:29 )
Cons - (21:29)
Recommender Score - (26:17)
Sangrevores Expansion - (31:42)
Alexander’s Personal Score - (34:45)
Ashton's Personal Score - (40:47)
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#boardgames #tabletop #review
We delve into this huge social deduction game, Nemesis Retaliation! This is the 3rd installment of the Nemesis Ameritrash series from Awaken Realms, which has lots of items and asymmetry inside a sci-fi world. Will the aliens destroy your team of marines, trying to explore the facility to do their hidden agendas? What will your dice rolls be to make sure the aliens don’t spawn on you and attack you? Oh, the horror. You must run through corridors, making sure you don’t die from contamination too (player elimination does exist). There’s even a solo/cooperative variant for those more euro-minded. How is the replayability with the modular board?
This game was massively profitable on Gamefound, but with all of the add-ons and crowdfunding news, is the finished product any good? How is the Sangrevores expansion? Did Awaken Realms provide a compelling package with nice miniatures and chits? We also cover the Neoflesh cult, Xyrians, and support squad boxes.
Link: curiositybox.com/Shelfside
Promo code: Get 25% off with shelf25
Table of Contents:
Overview - (0:00)
How to Play - (1:56)
Pros - (4:29 )
Cons - (21:29)
Recommender Score - (26:17)
Sangrevores Expansion - (31:42)
Alexander’s Personal Score - (34:45)
Ashton's Personal Score - (40:47)
Support us:
patreon.com/shelfside
ko-fi.com/shelfside
Our Website!
shelfside.co
Purchase Games We’ve Reviewed! (Paid Link)
amazon.com/shop/shelfside
Stuff Used:
Kevin Macleod — Monkeys Spinning Monkeys
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![I try 10 NYC Board Game Stores
New York City’s board game stores and cafes, we’re coming! We travel around Manhattan and Brooklyn in this NYC vlog, to go to as many FLGS as we can in 1 day. There’s full on retail stores (compleat strategist), but also lots of multi-use areas (Brooklyn Strategist, The Uncommon). Board Game cafes also provide drink, like tea and coffee, as well as some food, like sandwiches, so we get to experiment with those and let you know how we feel. Whether it’s through the subway train, car (uber), or straight walking, this is how we got around the city. There is even Eric M. Lang games (like the area control trilogy), and more casual stuff like Catan and Cards Against Humanity. We even get to talk about our favorite stores!
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Table of Contents:
Intro - (0:00)
1. The Compleat Strategist - (1:13)
2. Hex & Co - (3:46)
3. Forbidden Planet (Bonus) - (6:00)
4. Warhammer (Bonus) - (7:25)
5. The Uncommons - (8:14)
6. Brooklyn Game Lab - (11:42)
7. Sip & Play - (12:12)
8. The Brooklyn Strategist - (15:15)
9. Squarrel Cafe - (16:22)
10. Twenty Sided Store - (17:56)
11. Last Place on Earth - (19:15)
Ashton’s Favorite Stores - (20:39)
Outro - (22:21)
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Happy Cooking Food by Infraction [No Copyright Music] / Best Time
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Upbeat Energetic Funk by Infraction [No Copyright Music] / Sweet Life
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Lo-Fi Fashion Chill Hip Hop by MOKKA [No Copyright Music] / Sakura
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Persona 5 - Butterfly Kiss
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Persona 5 OST 55 - Life Goes On
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![Whats wrong with Social Deduction?
Social deduction has some big key issues in using it to develop a board game, mostly stemming from how group reliant they are. Issues can be player elimination in long games, or by the game boiling down to a 50/50 pick. Sure, theres also the issue where your group just does not want to lie, which also is a counterpoint to how group dependent these games are. You dont want to be playing a subpar team game for many hours after the traitor has been revealed! Tabletop traitor games issues get somewhat solved by Human Punishment: The Beginning, but that unleashes so many more mechanics for this more casual genre.
Are the super big memories from Battlestar galactica worth it, or should you just play other games for swingy moments? Or maybe just play shorter social deduction party games, like Werewolf. Or just look into video game social deduction!
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Games mentioned: Battlestar Galactica (with Pegasus and Daybreak expansion), Dead of Winter (with Long night Expansion), Spyfall, Spyfall 2, Fake Artist goes to New York, The Mole, Nemesis, Blood on the Clocktower, Shadows over Camelot, SanGuoSha, Mafia, Werewolf, Secret Hitler, Bang!, Dark Moon, Unfathomable, Human Punishment: The Beginning
Table of Contents:
Intro - (0:00)
What is social deduction? - (1:17)
Why is it so good? - (2:51)
Issues - (5:51)
Human Punishment: The Beginning - (11:22)
Final Thoughts - (13:12)
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![7 Steps to Get Rich QUICK From Board Games
Board games are fun to play, but did you also know you could turn a profit through 7 easy steps? Follow this satirical guide to make some real cash, and maybe even run a company of your own one day! Works for Ameritrash OR Euro games, FFG is best.
Games mentioned: Battlestar Galactica, Campaign for North Africa, Tigris and Euphrates, Star Wars: Queens’ Gambit, Twilight Imperium, Thunder’s Edge, Prophecy of Kings, Grimcoven, Catacombs, Winds of Numa Sera, Brass Birmingham, Nemesis: Retaliation, Monopoly, Taboo, Catan, Cosmic Encounter, Sid Meier’s Civilization (2010), Descent, Mansions of Madness, Throw Throw Burrito
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Upbeat Funk Vintage Cooking by Infraction [No Copyright Music] / Motor City
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Upbeat Funk Retro by Infraction [No Copyright Music] / Funk Up
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