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Game Info
Year
2024
Players
1-5
Age
10+
Playtime
25 min
Complexity
1.4/5
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Description
A strategic tile-placement game where players design trail systems through Rocky Mountain national forests by placing double-sided tiles to create paths and habitats while earning points
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kovray Discussion at 21:55 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
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none
Cons
none
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none
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Mechanics unknown.
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Quotes (from this video)
- 600 plays in 2024
- 306 different games
- 1288 different people
- There is one big goal for the year: play 365 different games
- we love doing this and we're excited to do more
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Ryan and Bethany Board Game Reviews Playthrough at 3:55 sentiment: positive
video_pk 85534 · mention_pk 219411
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- engaging spatial puzzle
- thematic ambiance with waterfalls
Cons
- scoring can be fiddly or require careful tracking
Thematic elements
- tile-based path-building and waterfall scoring
- alpine environment with waterfalls
- tile-laying with scenic, natural imagery
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Tile Placement — Players place tiles to create routes and water features; scoring interacts with waterfalls.
- waterfall-centric scoring — Points are awarded for surrounding and surrounding-water features.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Oh shoot. Just got a chance to play Yro and it is this cool tableau builder.
- The card art's cute. It plays fast, but it feels more substantial than it is.
- Basically, you have inventions, you invent them, then you build them, you test them, and then you publish them. Also, there's boats.
- Willox Warehouse, a super bizarre abstract memory style game where you basically have a lot of storytelling.
- Surround your waterfalls. That was her downfall. She missed out a lot of points.
- It's super fun and weird.
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Ryan and Bethany Board Game Reviews Top List at 8:08 sentiment: positive
video_pk 85420 · mention_pk 218831
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Fun and simple
- Good for playing with younger children
- Visually appealing components
- Satisfying tile-laying
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Connecting different types of trails (rocky, meadow, forest) and placing animals, campsites.
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Route Building — Players try to connect trails for the longest route.
- tile drafting — Players draft tiles.
- Tile Placement — Players lay tiles representing trails, animals, and campsites.
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Quotes (from this video)
- We are doing a top 10 games we've played in May.
- It's probably my number one favorite trick chicken game.
- Imperial Assault is basically a app-driven dungeon crawl in a Star Wars world.
- As some of you know, I am kind of on this solo journey.
- It was just really clever game that involved this kind of this tetrisy gravity thing.
- I just really like having a game that I can play in 15 minutes in my bag at all times, and this is the one.
- But to me, in me, in my opinion, uh this is like the penultimate version or the ultimate version of that system.
- She dominated. She she beat me and the other two guys as well.
- It was not mine. It was like the heaviest game in the universe. It's rated at 4.39 weight.
- Yes, it is this big, heavy, complex game, but once you start doing it, it's it's not anymore.
- Endeavor Deep Sea, which is a whole new thing using some similarities from the original Endeavor system.
- It was incredibly thematic which was more than I can say for the original Endeavor.
- Every single action was fun.
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Ryan and Bethany Board Game Reviews Discussion at 1:08 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
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none
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none
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Heard someone call this the running of the nerds, which I think is very apppropo.
- A Place for All My Books is a very cozy, puzzly little game.
- It's almost like an adult search and find.
- So, if you're a Castles of Burgundy fan, there is a kid version, the Sand Castles of Burgundy
- Gaming Trend just stopped by and awarded uh Synapse Games the best of Gen Con 2025 award for Compile Main 2, the new yellow box releasing in October.
- Ivy Studios would win at Best Bag. Look at this thing. It is amazing.
- I am excited about so many of these games.
- So many good choices.
- I realized in a snippet that I did earlier, I said excited I think seven times. So, if you want to play a fun game, just re-watch this video and count how many times say how many times I say excited. You can even count that one. It's going to be a lot.
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Neon Gorilla Analysis at 15:43 sentiment: positive
video_pk 79976 · mention_pk 193768
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Surprising amount of depth
- Surprisingly more deep than you'd expect
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Trailblazers
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Tile Placement — Draw two tiles out of a bag. Each tile has habitat on one side and trail and habitat on the other. You're stuck with those two tiles. You got to place them into your environment. There's four habitat areas to get the biggest size of, longest trail, make loops to earn waterfalls, campgrounds cannot be closer than six miles from other campgrounds.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Fill and rights.
- You can't name me a cheaper form of entertainment than a card or board game.
- I think family weight is like wait, can I play this with my friends? Can I my enemies? Can is it is it just for children? Is it like adults should play it with their teens and talk about real life experiences?
- You don't have to be in the hobby to enjoy board games.
- Games don't have to be complex and hard to learn to have good depth and strategy.
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