Games 101: Vegan Card Game Review

This game is centered around the idea of the “obnoxious vegan” who is constantly only talking about veganism and trying to push their personal beliefs and practices onto everyone around them. The setting of the game is a party at which the group of people is approached by said vegan and have to engage in conversation. The game works a lot like Cards Against Humanity, in that each round someone is the vegan, in place of the card czar, and their job is to pick a vegan card at random with an annoying phrase that one might hear from an overbearing vegan in a group conversation. The rest of the players then play a card from their hand, all of which are responses to statements that might be made by a vegan and are often very sarcastic or aggressive. The vegan is then tasked with choosing who has the “best” response, which may vary based on their opinion, for example one might pic the rudest while another might pick the most logical, and the player of the card that is inevitably picked wins that round and “gets out of the conversation,” which is the overall goal of the game. The game plays very well and although it is very similar to Cards Against Humanity in function, the situations and responses are catered to a very different and specific topic so it feels much like a new game rather than a copy. My only suggestion is to perhaps make the responses more varied, as they are all somewhat mild and some could be more rude and humorous with others making more logical sense in order to allow for players to cater to what they think each “vegan” will choose, adding more strategy to the gameplay. There is also somewhat of a disconnect with the extra cards added in to allow for a player to sit out for a round, for example “phone call from mom, you are excused for this conversation.” This idea of cards with different purposes could be pushed and made into something more advantageous, as players already have the option to throw away bad cards they might not want to use if they want to sit out a round and these cards primary act as a throw away.

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