Aug 21, 2026 · 26 min · 10 segments
Maggie from ThinkerThemer gives us genuinely useful advice about Tokyo Game Market: tiny indie games, pre-orders, language barriers and where to stay. Naturally, we repay her expertise by…
I just think that's an interesting and creative game.
Do you know it?
I don't know it.
No, tell me more about it.
It's
pretty interesting.
Yeah.
So it's based on a few kind of sort of anime properties that are effectively like one person is the mastermind who has some kind of evil plot and the other three players basically has to be four, are time travelers who are trying to stop the mastermind from doing whatever it is they're doing.
Ah, yeah.
But they don't know what the mastermind is trying to do.
So the mastermind will just do things on the board and they'll be like, oh, yeah, you guys lost.
And then they'll restart and you'll try and work out, wait, why did we lose? What was the thing that caused us to lose? And you kind of...
Oh, wow.
And then you've got like
three attempts.
And if you can't work out what the mastermind's up to after three attempts, they just win.
I just think it's like... one of the wildest and most creative game ideas i've seen that is pretty
creative yeah i like that it is yeah yeah wait so that's i mean that it's like like all versus one like many versus one
yeah yeah
that's probably why we haven't played we don't like in our household we don't tend to co-op or even semi-co-op but like that is that really i like the sound of that premise that that sounds really cool exactly
What I did find a little bit tricky about it, though, is that basically once you've played it, you can play that same scenario as the mastermind, but you can't play it again as a player because you already know what the mastermind is going to do.
And in practical terms, I have one particular friend that I basically play almost all my games with.
So with the two of us, we could never really play the same scenario.
Yeah.
I just think that's an interesting and creative game.
Do you know it?
I don't know it.
No, tell me more about it.
It's
pretty interesting.
Yeah.
So it's based on a few kind of sort of anime properties that are effectively like one person is the mastermind who has some kind of evil plot and the other three players basically has to be four, are time travelers who are trying to stop the mastermind from doing whatever it is they're doing.
Ah, yeah.
But they don't know what the mastermind is trying to do.
So the mastermind will just do things on the board and they'll be like, oh, yeah, you guys lost.
And then they'll restart and you'll try and work out, wait, why did we lose? What was the thing that caused us to lose? And you kind of...
Oh, wow.
And then you've got like
three attempts.
And if you can't work out what the mastermind's up to after three attempts, they just win.
I just think it's like... one of the wildest and most creative game ideas i've seen that is pretty
creative yeah i like that it is yeah yeah wait so that's i mean that it's like like all versus one like many versus one
yeah yeah
that's probably why we haven't played we don't like in our household we don't tend to co-op or even semi-co-op but like that is that really i like the sound of that premise that that sounds really cool exactly
What I did find a little bit tricky about it, though, is that basically once you've played it, you can play that same scenario as the mastermind, but you can't play it again as a player because you already know what the mastermind is going to do.
And in practical terms, I have one particular friend that I basically play almost all my games with.
So with the two of us, we could never really play the same scenario.
Yeah.
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