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Published — 28. Oktober 2025 ⏭ Youtube - ENG

Threshold Prototype Review — MMO meets Campaign Game

✇Shelfside
Von: Shelfside
28. Oktober 2025 um 15:30

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We review a ‘MMO’ styled campaign board game! Threshold by owl studios features players deckbuilding with asymmetric characters, fighting on a hex map (like Gloomhaven). There is a combination of the overland and combat, as players manage their hands of 5 cards, upgrading their decks as they level up. You can role-play as a guardian or mystic in this prototype, to do MMORPG-isms! At some point there may be level 40 raids, or guilds to participate in! Lots of aspects of the questing and loot feel like the popular blizzard game World of Warcraft, but how online could this board game be? Could you play dungeons online with fellow members via discord after the gamefound?

Other games mentioned: Pokemon Emerald, Elder Scrolls Betrayal of the Second Era, Guild Wars 2, Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon, Tainted Grail: Kings of Ruin, Dragon Eclipse, Dominion

Play Threshold: https://gamefound.com/en/projects/oomm-games/threshold

Table of Contents:
Overview - (0:00)
How to Play - (2:00)
Pros - (4:41)
Cons - (13:40)
Tentative Score - (24:07 )
Ashton’s Personal Score - (30:37)

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Stuff Used:

Guild Wars 2 in 2025 | Is it Worth Playing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx8lgTqPFLE

World of Warcraft Classic (2023) - Gameplay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNxgu5bueAQ

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Ayn Thor Max: The Best Console Ever (30+ PC Games Showcased)

✇Drive Thru Games
Von: Drive Thru Games
28. Oktober 2025 um 15:16

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Ayn Thor Max: The Best Console Ever (30+ PC Games Showcased)

Intro (00:00);
My Retro Handheld Journey (01:23);
Brief Review of the Ayn Thor (08:59);

PC Gaming Showcase (15:42);

Gamehub Lite Overview (18:42);

Fallout: New Vegas (21:25);
Elder Scrolls: Skyrim (22:29);
Ys: Origin (24:11);
Alien: Isolation (25:31);
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana (27:44);
Chrono Trigger (29:18);
Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition (30:26);
Scarlet Nexus (31:13);
Octopath Traveler (33:16);
Trials of Mana (34:22);
UFO 50 (35:21);
Final Fantasy VI: Pixel Remaster (36:38);
Loop Hero (37:50);
Ys IX: Monstrum Nox (38:24);
Sun Haven (39:27);
Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails (40:24);
Vampire Survivors (41:09);
Ball x Pit (41:33);
Suikoden I&II HD Remaster (42:53);
Ys X: Nordics (43:56);
FANTASION Neo Dimension (45:50);

Winlator-Frost Overview (47:29);

Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake (48:58);
Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age (51:19);
Luftrausers (51:44);
Necromunda: Hired Gun (52:37);
Stardew Valley (53:58);
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (55:16);
Zelda II Remastered (56:29);
DOOM + DOOM II (57:56);
Heretic + Hexen (58:50);
System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster (59:17);
PICO-8 (1:00:10);

Brief Discussion of Screen Refresh (1:02:04);

2024 JRPG video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j-2RPQN3Bg

Ayn Thor website - https://www.ayntec.com/products/ayn-thor
GameHub Lite project page - https://github.com/gamehublite/gamehub-oss
Winlator-Frost project page - https://github.com/MrPhryaNikFrosty/Winlator-Frost

Joey's Retro Handhelds Review - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mctebTh7fOY&pp=ygUPYXluIHRob3IgcmV2aWV3
Adin Walls Review - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeGFRB0Mor8&pp=ygUPYXluIHRob3IgcmV2aWV30gcJCQcKAYcqIYzv
Retro Game Corps Review - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeGFRB0Mor8&pp=ygUPYXluIHRob3IgcmV2aWV30gcJCQcKAYcqIYzv
Kei's Retro Gaming Review - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28UmbFaWYmg&pp=ygUPYXluIHRob3IgcmV2aWV3

Retractable Stylus - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXFHBC7Y?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

Winlator SDL input fix (Stardew Valley) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiRvot-Aen8

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Borealis ~ we were not prepared for how crunchy this puzzle is!! 🤯 | A Quick(ish) Board Game Review

✇ThinkerThemer
Von: ThinkerThemer
28. Oktober 2025 um 12:01

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Cute animals on the front? Seems cosy.... WE WERE NOT PREPARED!!!!! From the race objectives to the complex programming of moves several steps in advance this is a very crunchy trip into the arctic. We love stumbling upon puzzles like this one, and we can't wait to tell you more about it....

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Timestamps:
00:00 🎲 Introduction
00:53 🎨Theme
01:32 ⚙️Mechanics
05:15 ☁️How it Feels to Play
08:00 🎯What Surprised Us
10:39 🛠 What We'd Change
13:33 ✅ Is it Shelfworthy?

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/448116/borealis-arctic-expeditions

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