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2021
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Description
In the hushed intimacy of her laboratory, the eminent researcher Beatrix Bury has just discovered a technology allowing to mechanically generate all kinds of edibles. Subtropical plants, stellar potatoes, Orion mandarins, this new technology opens a way to save the people of Forharms, prisoners of a world made of rust and toxic vapors. It’s in the urgency of a threatened world that the scientist puts two of her best teams in charge of developing her plan... that can seem quite demanding at times. Each team is engrossed in its mission and Beatrix’s laboratory becomes the battlefield of fierce competition to produce the best performing machine. You are promoted to the head of one of these two teams, and must prove yourself worthy of the head researchers’ trust. Rise up to the challenge!
—description from the rulebook
Develop the most effective network of mecha-botanics, the combination of plants and science! Botanik offers fluid mechanics (one action per turn), in addition to an ingenious exchange system, associated with tiles of different groups/colours.
A)draft machine parts (tiles)and add them to your workshop
or
B)change the main workshop to add tiles from your workshop to your machine.
Gain points for 1)groups of 3 or more tiles of the same color and 2)for flowers on your tiles
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kovray Discussion at 19:02 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Beautiful floral steampunk art style.
- Players build a machine to grow flowers and vegetables.
- Strategic tile drafting and placement on a shared board.
- High player interaction allows for interference.
- Bonuses awarded for creating a beautiful machine.
- Consistently impresses players who try it.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- floral steampunk, building a machine for growing plants
- a lab
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Pattern Building — Players aim to create the largest areas of the same color by connecting pipes and vines.
- Set Collection — Players aim to connect pipes and vines to form areas of specific colors.
- tile drafting — Players draft tiles from a set of three revealed each round.
- Tile Placement — Tiles are placed on a shared board to build a machine.
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Quotes (from this video)
- this is Star Realms from Wise Wizard Games in this game you're going to be building your deck up so that you can put you your opponent's ships and bases so that their score goes down to zero the first person to do that wins it's a lot of fun
- it's definitely a must-have for star realms lovers like i am
- the app is amazing definitely need to check it out on steam
- if you are a fan of two-player head-to-head card games i cannot suggest summoner wars enough
- these are this is probably the best part of the game here look at these awesome chips
- it's like chess but it's much easier to learn
- Watergate is definitely a strictly two-player game
- really just it's a really fun outside game
- it is essentially a game where you are trying to play poker hands to win area control over these different stone tablets out in front of you
- it's a good stress
- this is a good one and we basically played the expansion for it and it just made the game even better
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kovray Review at 24:51 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- clever tile drafting with dynamic scoring
- beautiful production and thematic cohesion
- multiple ways to chase points via color and flower patterns
Cons
- heavy interaction around tile exchanges can be mentally taxing
Thematic elements
- botanical competition among botanists
- apocalyptic greenery restoration
- clever, thematic with clever tile interactions
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- center-bump interaction — you can bump tiles off centers to disrupt opponents while maintaining your own strategy
- Compound Scoring — score based on color matching and flower placement in connected groups
- set adjacency scoring — score based on color matching and flower placement in connected groups
- tile drafting and placement — draft tiles and place them to form connections that score flowers and colors
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's skull themed spooky spooky
- it's a quick easy card game you can set up
- the postcards add so much theme to the game
- it's a brain-burning, tight two-player puzzle
- the production quality is sublime
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kovray Top 10 List at 9:35 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Clever tile drafting.
- Fun illustrations.
- Nice back-and-forth between players.
- Quick to play.
Cons
- Sometimes tiles don't go to the right spot.
Thematic elements
- Playing as a botanist trying to do better for a post-apocalyptic world and become the most renowned botanist.
- Post-apocalyptic world.
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — Choosing how to do actions by placing a tile in the center row and moving things down.
- Pattern Building — Creating connections based on colors and flowers.
- Set Collection — Adding value based on colors and flowers in connections.
- tile drafting — Drafting tiles to create connections on a tableau.
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Quotes (from this video)
- together we make up Calvary a couple that loves to play board games and we love recommending board games
- so today our goal is to share 10 board games that start with letter b and tell you what is that little special something that makes us love the game
- there's so many scenarios in this game and I think my favorite part is we always shoe the person because they have to go off into another room and read what their rules are what their book what their objective is because we don't know
- the way that the tile drafting works is really clever
- it's become one of my favorite two-player games
- it feels almost like video game-esque is what I want to say
- this is definitely a realm or world of games that I would highly recommend just checking out
- the really curious illustrations in this game it feels very unique and it feels unlike any other game that I've played
- so join along and share your board game stories
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Allies or Enemies Top List at 3:36 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- clever, low-overhead yet deep strategy
- beautiful industrial aesthetic with flowers
- tight and interactive without heavy rules
Cons
- can feel mean when you block a key tile for your opponent
- may require careful planning to maximize pipe/flower connections
Thematic elements
- garden design and pipe-work in a staged garden
- Two-player tile-placement with botanical and piping imagery
- quiet, elegant strategy with a subtle competitive edge
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- shared drafting — Tiles are drafted from a common pool, and players influence each other's options.
- Tile Placement — Draft and place square tiles featuring pipes and flowers to connect color groups.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- it's a date night classic for us
- Escape rooms in a box
- it's such a beautiful like calm game
- it's a terrific tile placement game
- this is the heaviest of all of the games on this list
- it's a two-player only game
- it's meanest game on this list
- it's a modern classic
- Bandido is slippery
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