Nemesis Lockdown Review: Die, Die, Repeat.

Nemesis Lockdown is the standalone expansion to the wildly popular survival horror board game Nemesis. Nemesis Lockdown retains the same feel and flavour as its predecessor but adds some tremendously fun new mechanisms. In Lockdown, a vicious alien race known as the Nightstalkers has gotten loose within a Martian research facility, and your only chance for survival is to escape the facility.

0:00 - Intro
1:54 - Brief Overview
4:08 - Is Nemesis Lockdown For You?
6:48 - Issues With Conveying Information
8:48 - Why Lockdown Is Great
11:45 - The Randomness
12:26 - What Could Be Improved
14:34 - Nemesis Vs. Nemesis Lockdown
15:34 - Final Thoughts & Doggos

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[joedunleavy]

This is a very informative review. Thank you. I find it so frustrating that Awakened Realms always rush their games without taking time to polish up the gameplay/rules, or fix up issues that clearly need addressing. They have such great ideas and their games have so much potential. They nail down 85% of the game and then kick it out of the door with glaring unaddressed issues that could have been fixed with just a little more care and attention. I was hoping that they would get this one right due to it being the second game in the series but it looks like I was wrong.

[sloikalamos]

This is what I like from you guys, the honest review! Please don't stop making it with this format!

[manuelandre]

I loke so much what you're doing guys, feel so good to have a hones and argumentative opinion about games. And what can be improve . Keep it like that as long as you can ❤

[jacobestrada]

You guys can always adopt house rules to make the game more fun and fair. For instance, we adopted a rule that if you want to do a careful movement, you can discard 3 cards instead of 2 in order to avoid making any noise at all, but this rule is only in effect after the first encounter. We made this rule because there were often so many noise tokens on the board toward the end of the game, it made it practically impossible to move around without triggering an encounter. We also adopted a rule that you can discard 3 cards during your turn in order to remove any noise token connected to your room.

[Dragonnox]

First time I have come across your channel, and I am grateful for such an informative review. Subbed!

[djangofett]

A searchable PDF rulebook is the way to go for looking up rules as you go. Im sure they will at least provide an updated PDF to address the problems.
does seem strange though not to have a more definitive rulebook for a second edition game.
Also, you can also just make up your own rule to get through a snag 😆

[carllindley]

I really found this review helpful thank by far my favourite part was seeing your dogs at the end!

[chiuvak]

Guys are you planning to do playthrough video of Nemesis Lockdown?

[przemek]

This is you a player's character making noises in the corridors. Those are the noises of the aliens the character hears from the corridor. Otherwise it would make no sense thematically as the noise comes from a random corridor, not necessarily the one player used.

[danielgustavoparedes]

ive seen about 4 to 5 nemesis lockdown related videos to see if this is something i want to pick up from the game steward at it was big for me to hear your commentary on how the rules are not great straight out of the rulebook. very relevant to me and my playgroup when it comes to learning new games. closer to sure deciding not to get it

edit: yeah this is the last video i needed to watch. very informative

[JBXyooj]

Yeaaaah Awaken Realms rule books are always frustrating lol.

[IvorStiffan]

Would it work to house rule the fire cards so that only 2 can combo back to back and the rest get reshuffled into the deck?

[CrazyBunnyGuy]

Argh, geez, you did not help me :) Haha, don't worry, your review is excellent, it's me who's having issues with deciding whether or not to click that BUY button. It's such an expensive experiment for someone who doesn't like to sell games once they enter the collection and aside from literally a couple of misses everything else I own was spot on and we love those games. Yours is probably a fifth review already that I watched which puts randomness front and centre. And I don't know what to think of it! :) I'm no stranger to randomness in games. I have both Eldritch Horror and Arkham Horror. plus a few other games from the same genre and if anything is random, it's them. We have had EH sessions which became hopeless two rounds in and it was pure torture to wait till the end (I guess that's spot on - theme-wise) so I think I'd be okay with that. Would I? I just don't know!

The reason why I'm looking into Nemesis is the theme, the look and feel of it, the grim atmosphere, and mechanically the game is sound, but most of all I'm in the mood for something that's not an euro game. I'm an euro gamer at heart, the heavier the better but I think I'm a little bit tired of counting victory points through XYZ and I need something else for a while. Co-ops are the thing we are currently exploring and it suits us better at the moment but we never played a semi co-op before and it's something that could scratch both itches: playing cooperatively AND, very very very remotely, keep that euro-centric, "must win no matter what" spirit alive.

So I'm torn. And I wish I could play it before buying it, but I can't, sadly. Good thing is it could be played solo so even if I buy it and then only play it in my retirement I'll still have "someone" to play it with. Although given the alarming trend of dementia in my family I'd probably be sitting in a corner cuddling the Queen and trying to feed her grapes instead of actually playing the game.

[yagsipcc]

The one thing about big boardgames is rules are always a pain, things can be easy to forget or things might only happen once or twice in a game or special events might or mightn't show up and you could play a long game several times and not see certain things 🤣 big problem with big games but they are also super replayability even campaign games. I am glad I got this over the original game though seems to have some improvements gameplay is pretty much the same and of course most of the expansions work with it so not really missing out at all if anything getting the best of the both games outside of untold stories. Thanks again. Still need time to play the game need to convince my GF ha but hey got an airbrush so painting time until then 🤗

[thelastmotel]

"Expandalone" is the term ;)

[JK-npdr]

ye, i totally agree with the overly swingly randomness puts a sour taste in my mouth

[darrenthedude]

Would you recommend this as a solo game?? I play jaws of the lion and was wondering if its more complex than that as well.

[KingCommaAndrew]

Thanks for the in-depth review. I hadn't realized the game was so random, so unforgiving, and unpolished. I thought I might give this one a go, but it sounds like I'm out. Especially since I didn't back it before release and the expansions and stretch goals will be so expensive.

[devintheee]

Awaken Realms doing a bad job of rules editing and clarity? Say it ain't so!

[kwisatzhaderach]

what makes you night stalkers are exactly the same as itruders? their cards are insanely different