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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 606.7 hrs on record (605.4 hrs at review time)
Posted: 13 Mar, 2023 @ 7:37am

100% Orange Juice is the best boardgame ever made. It has a huge amount of player options, mechanics with a lot of depth and even an interesting universe.

There is a lot of ways to play 100% Orange Juice as there are dozens of characters, upwards of a hundred cards, and lots of maps to play the game on. There is a huge list of characters that are locked behind DLC, but they are cheap, and not overpowered. The four starting characters, unlockable characters, and free weekly characters are enough to enjoy the base game for a long time. Every character has its own skillset of health/attack/defense/evade, special ability and hyper card to make them distinct to play. There is a huge list of maps that each have their own pathings, layouts gimmicks, space types, and even music. On top of this there are 3 random modifiers that can be applied to all boards. The game also has seasonal events, and other game modes. 100% Orange Juice has an obscene amount of replayability and that is not even factoring the different types of people one may play against or with in a lobby.

This game has a very simple looking art style, but underneath that is a game with a lot of depth. Every single character has their own special ability, hyper card, and health/attack/defense/evade, modifiers. All players also start the game off by selecting ten cards that will be used in the games shared card pool. From this alone there is a lot of decisions being made and a lot of setups for having to adapt. Who attacks is decided by who one passes on the game board. However, deciding to attack a player means also stopping on their space, but also getting to attack first. Not attacking may mean getting attacked first by those one has passed. The different types of spaces also affect whether stopping to attack is a good idea. There are character levels (normas) and the goal is to reach level six by getting to a home base five times. Ones own home base give the option to stop, but the home bases of other or not. Which paths one takes and even whether one attacks can be affected by this. Each level requirement for a norma goes up each level and one can decide between stars and wins/kills each norma. Kills cannot be taken away, but stars can so even this decision can be a challenging one. Norma levels unlock the ability to use more cards and the third one puts the boss spaces on the map. There is a lot more depth to this game, but there is too much to describe.

The universe of 100% Orange Juice does not take itself too seriously, but the game does have lore that is interesting to discover. A lot of it is hidden behind other Orange Juice games, but this particular game is a boardgame universe or multiverse of sorts. There is about a dozen single player campaigns worth going through that each have their own stories.

100% Orange Juice is the best boardgame ever made. It is often only a dollar, has online multiplayer, and is so intuitive that one really can just pick it up and start playing it solo or in a multiplayer lobby without even reading a manual or needing guidance (it helps a lot though). The game is easy to pick up, and a newbie may even win against experience players. However, the games depth ensures that those experienced players will probably be winning more. The game has obscene amount of DLC, but despite this the game is very balanced and none of the characters are pay to win outside of some characters being better for some maps (just play random maps & random events to even everything out).
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