Dungeon Date Review

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We review Dungeon Date, a set collection card game published by Nerdy Pup Games. In Dungeon Date, players are trying to romance, befriend, and slay a dungeon-full of monsters

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It sounds like we should take a stroll through Dungeon Date together, a 1-4 player card game about romancing, befriending, or slaying monsters while collecting treasure that helps you dress to impress.

A Dungeon Board is set up in the middle of the playfield with four different locations, each with its own stack of monster cards, the easiest monsters on top and the most challenging on bottom. Treasure cards are also placed on the Dungeon Board, through which players can upgrade their equipment to better fuel their actions. Each player gets their own board as well, to track their equipment slots. Players earn points based on the sets of monster cards that they collect, and the game ends when one location stack on the Dungeon Board is fully emptied of monsters.

Play goes in rounds, with everyone secretly selecting action cards that will allow them to romance, slay, or befriend dungeon monsters. Monsters have different symbols on their cards for each possible action. Whether the player will be successful with their action depends on if they have equipment with corresponding symbols. If the player succeeds, they get to add that monster to their scoring piles, and gain treasure. If they fail, they earn a spite card, which may help them later down the line in a fight, which happens when more than one player selects the same monster. Each action card has a fight value. In a fight, your current action card, the one played in the previous round, and your spite cards are added together and pitted against the other player who wants the same monster. The winner gets to face the monster, and the