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The Portal Uncooperative Board Game offers a unique and chaotic experience for players with a significant amount of direct and indirect interaction. Players engage in strategic gameplay as they attempt to sacrifice their test subjects and earn cake pieces while disrupting opponents' plans. The inclusion of cards featuring characters from the Portal universe adds an extra layer of excitement and unpredictability. However, some players have noted that the cardboard game pieces can be difficult to fit together.
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Quality
This is a very well designed board game.
The sardonic humor of the original game comes through even in the very premise of this game: doing whatever you can to gain cak... Read More
We learned the rules, read the cards, and then everyone started killing each others' test subjects like maniacs and generally n... Read More
Note: reviews of this game and others, including gameplay descriptions, more bad puns, and a lot more pictures available at playbegins.
Packaging/appearance
There were 16 pieces of cake in the incinerator (half of all the cake pieces the game came with).
Competitiveness
They can be quite powerful, but they are easy to obtain so other players aren't at a disadvantage.
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- This product had a total of 381 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 26 2025.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It would also be fun without the portal universe supporting it which certainly is the mark of a great licensed game
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The videogame was groundbreaking the boardgame isnt quite that but the core gameplay mechanics are still unique and interestingpositivesthe game at its simplest works like this use your test subjects to gain cake andor more test subjects
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Once you have more cake on the board than your opponents you will try to end the game by getting rid of all of your own or one opponents test subjects
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
However if youre too slow at doing this you leave your opponents with an opening to add cake to the board with their own dwindling test subjects and turn the tables by taking advantage of your 34help
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Every turn each player is required to choose a tile on the 34old end34 of the laboratory to activate
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Its the good kind of chaotic especially with three or four players
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
So youll play one of aperture cards that allows you to destroy a test subject but which in turn activates 34chell
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
More often than not every decision in the game has these causeeffect scenarios and the board often changes quickly and dramatically
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