Those Pesky Humans Board Game: “A humorous reverse dungeon crawl designed for 2 players with hybrid play for 3-4. Highly dynamic for maximum re playability“. Those Pesky Humans game turns the tables and lets you play the role of the Monsters who are fighting off the annoying Humans who keep invading your dungeon. This game is playable against one or a team of your “friends”. It is highly re-playable due to the variable dungeon tile design and the variety of Avatars and abilities you may choose to play with each game. Mechanics are kept very simple to keep the pace of the game moving quickly. – Minion Games-
What’s Cool:
- Random Dungeon layout every game.
- Big character cards.
- Funny Artwork.
- Lots of pieces and room for house rules.
- Characters have different abilities each game.
- Easy fantasy game that even the kids can enjoy.
What’s Not:
- Production quality of the cards is bad.
- The rulebook needs some work.
- Only 4 characters to choose from.
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rpghost
September 16, 2010 at 11:58 AM (UTC -5) Link to this comment
FYI
Special power cards do have rooms they can recover them in.
You can play with the optional rule to allow only 1 summon per turn. Several optional rules can be found at http://www.ThosePeskyHumans.com
All our games in our first batch suffered from a China printer who used art paper instead of card stock, and then shipped the stuff all “moist” from humid season in China. The combo really messed up the cards in all our games. We will not be using that printer again.
TehSeeker
September 4, 2010 at 4:33 AM (UTC -5) Link to this comment
To be honest its an okay game. As 2ndzenith said “not for a serious game night”. I’ve given this game 2 goes and I might have to give it a 3rd go before I have something concrete to say.
I kept losing to the bombardment of enemy spawns the keeper played, perhaps it happened to be the luck of the shuffle that he drew all the existing enemies in the first 6 rounds of the game but it just made it hard for me to survive. Even with the so called cleric class I managed to save some characters several times from near death only to still lose in the end.
The one time use abilities per character made it harder despite some being fairly strong, the issue was getting them regenerated. It required a near perfect roll and perhaps a lack of moving the turn before or a misdirection in movement to do so, only to get the chance at it at the beginning of the next turn.
Also despite the rulebook saying it can be played with 4 players (3 players and a keeper), I think its really just a 2 player game.
2ndzenith
August 30, 2010 at 1:37 PM (UTC -5) Link to this comment
This is like the board game equivalent to the PC game Dungeon Keeper. The player built a dungeon and tried to keep those annoying hero types from stealing their treasures. Comical artwork and light rules give it a nice feel, not for a serious game night. Nicely done.
Tarno
August 25, 2010 at 11:09 PM (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Looks a lot like Munchkin the boardgame. Except without the whole backstabbing your partner bit. More of a co-op game at heart.
I will say these games need to start upping the production quality of their cards that my #1 piss off when buying new games. Besides that looks like it has some merit.
Nice review,
Thanks again!
THoiA
August 25, 2010 at 10:28 PM (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Hmmmmmmm I’m really torn. I was hoping the ability cards werent one use even if they can be regenerated. I was hoping for them to be all game effects, maybe not as powerful but more to choose from kind of like what happens in Strange Synergy but then thrown into the dungeon crawl that this game is. Looks better than I though, I was really close to buying the PnP version and crafting this one not too long ago. Might think about that again.