{"id":43912,"date":"2023-05-30T12:13:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T12:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/clank-catacombs-review-the-absolute-sweet-spot-of-tactics-variety-and-good-old-fashioned-fun\/"},"modified":"2023-05-30T12:13:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T12:13:53","slug":"clank-catacombs-review-the-absolute-sweet-spot-of-tactics-variety-and-good-old-fashioned-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/games\/clank-catacombs-review-the-absolute-sweet-spot-of-tactics-variety-and-good-old-fashioned-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Clank! Catacombs review: &#8220;The absolute sweet spot of tactics, variety, and good old-fashioned fun&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/clank-catacombs-review-the-absolute-sweet-spot-of-tactics-variety-and-good-old-fashioned-fun_6475e8808ffd7-1000x600.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/clank-catacombs-review-the-absolute-sweet-spot-of-tactics-variety-and-good-old-fashioned-fun_6475e8808ffd7-1000x600.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/clank-catacombs-review-the-absolute-sweet-spot-of-tactics-variety-and-good-old-fashioned-fun_6475e8808ffd7-400x240.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The original Clank! was part of the second wave of deck-building games that added a board alongside a deck of cards that you embellished as you played. In this case, the board represented a dungeon and your cards helped you move, loot treasure and defeat monsters. The recipe proved popular enough to spawn a sci-fi spinoff, Clank! In! Space! and a campaign version Clank! Legacy \u2013 Acquisitions Incorporated. This new version, Clank! Catacombs replicates the original&#8217;s gameplay but replaces the board with randomly drawn tiles to plot the dungeon. But is it a catacomb you can truly lose yourself in, and how does it rank compared to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/best-board-games\/\">best board games<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/clank-catacombs-review\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original Clank! was part of the second wave of deck-building games that added a board alongside a deck of cards that you embellished as you played. In this case, the board represented a dungeon and your cards helped you move, loot treasure and defeat monsters. The recipe proved popular enough to spawn a sci-fi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43915,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43912\/revisions\/43915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}