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Game Info
Year
2022
Players
1-4
Age
8+
Playtime
40 min
Collection
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Description
Welcome to the wilderness of North America! Breathtaking mountain views and spectacular geysers await you. Vast forests and prairie provide habitats for native animals. Your task is to group animals of the same species together in families as large as possible. But large families are only half the battle: to score a lot of points, they also need access to watering holes and must avoid bad weather.
A turn comprises two simple steps: First, one player chooses a feature (species or watering hole) and a terrain requirement from a limited selection. Then, each player must place one of their tokens showing that feature onto one of their park spaces obeying that terrain requirement. What seems no trouble at first grows more and more challenging and exciting as the available spaces become fewer and fewer. But it’s not only the choices of your fellow players that can disrupt your plans. There are also unpredictable weather tokens that you must take into account.
After five rounds, the game ends. Then you score your most valuable family of each species and the terrains you completely populated.
Caldera Park is an interactive puzzle-game that achieves a perfect balance between strategic planning and luck. This, and its accessible ruleset, make it a great next step for anyone who enjoyed Savannah Park.
—description from the publisher
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Watch It Played News at 4:49 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Sequel to Savannah Park
- Good next step for Savannah Park players
- Unique tile announcement mechanic
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Grouping animals, watering holes, weather
- Wilderness of North America
Comparison games
- Savannah Park
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Grouping animals — Task is to group animals of the same species together in families as large as possible.
- Scoring points — Large families are only half the battle; to score a lot of points they also need access to watering holes and must avoid bad weather.
- Tile announcement — Players announce a tile that everyone has to deal with on their board.
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- trailblazers where one to eight adventurers will create the longest hiking biking and kayaking paths by the ageless medium of tile length with a catchy is that you can't get lost as you always have to find your way back to camp and you only score points for paths that begin and end at matching colored campsites
- you're gonna get stabbed in the back it's just i mean it's a guarantee
- point city a sequel to the wonderful hit game point salad which i linked to my friend beth now i think about it not important in point city your drafting cards similar to the original point salad but you're building a city and as such there's a little more going on with resource management and engine building aspects but gosh if i'm not excited for it when it's out next year
- board game day which is written by amy valdez from the board game blitz podcast and illustrated by rachel kramer from the semicolo internet comic and they've teamed up to create board game day a 16 page fully illustrated children's book the game follows a group of friends two pandas a cat a bird and an octopus as they prepare for and have a board game day illustrations include many actual children's games so the kid might recognize them and i think this is a lovely project to finish on
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Getting Games Top 33 List at 12:06 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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kovray Top 10 List at 16:02 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Designed by acclaimed designers Michael Kiesling and Wolfgang Kramer
- Features tile placement and set collection
- Appealing nature theme with more animals and tiles
- Expected to be a 'brain burn' experience
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Nature, animals
- Caldera Park region
Comparison games
- Savannah Park
- Calico
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- flipping tiles — Similar to Savannah Park, it might involve flipping tiles.
- Movement — Involves movement mechanics, potentially related to animal placement on tiles.
- Set Collection — The game is also a set collection game.
- Tile Placement — Features tile placement, similar to Savannah Park.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- we love deduction Games Social deduction not so much but deduction games yeah specifically like logic puzzles logic puzzles they are brilliant and the Search for Planet X why can't I get the title is such a clever game it is one of our favorite deduction games so when we heard that there is going to be a spin on that mechanic of deduction and trying to figure out a lost species yeah hello we need this game
- it looks gorgeous
- it's essentially a worker placement at the heart of a lot of what UE Rosenberg games look like it looks gorgeous I'm excited to play it I love always games so this is gonna be great
- the pictures of this game look absolutely poor
- I'm excited for my brain to be a little bit
- brain burner I guess when you play metallic certain games your brain goes yeah like that
- I loved my city yep that was such tremendous experience
- the tile placement was like super smooth super quick
- thundergrip does is all their games are just the quality in them is remarkable
- building your own coven yeah and there's a little bit of Witchcraft but essentially you want to be the Septima which is like the High witch
- it's a brain burn similar to like calico-esque
- I love that throw away those victory points I don't want any of those Point trackers victory points are happiness no they are switch victory points to happiness points
- the board games were moving into a golden age so Golden Age so if the Washington Post says it must be they're not Liars are they
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ON TABLE Board Games Discussion at 10:32 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- clear, approachable theme
- beautiful production
Cons
- replay value may depend on patterns
Thematic elements
- pattern-building ecological design
- nature/reserve park planning
- eurogame with a scenic, educational bent
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Pattern Building — arrange animals to form high-density concentrations
- Tile Placement — place tiles to create appealing park patterns
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- this epic set is not one not two or even three games this is four big boxes of a new battle game in a universe created by Tolkien
- legendary encounters the matrix is coming
- i love deck building game legendary encounters and this news is some combination of this legendary card game and an equally legendary movie
- the matrix is coming
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Board Gaming Ramblings Discussion at 14:04 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- great spatial puzzle with nice tiling decisions
- expansion potential noted
Cons
- hard to compare to Savannah Park; similar boxes
Thematic elements
- city-building and spatial puzzle
- spatial puzzle with park and plaza layouts
- thematic but abstract
Comparison games
- Savannah Park
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Grid Building — compacting layouts to fit blocks, activating buildings
- spatial puzzle / tiling — compacting layouts to fit blocks, activating buildings
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- we want to look back we want to see like which of the games we brought back home are still in the collection
- Caldera Park is better I think that Savannah Park
- Federation is one of the best games I've ever played
- this is one of the highlights from 2022 from me
- Federation is the one I recommend if you want a heavy game
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Rahdo Runs Through Top List at 0:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Sequel to excellent Savannah Park
- Same core idea with improvements
- Added flexibility with location restrictions
- Disaster tiles add tension
- Huge improvement over predecessor
- Enjoyable with groups
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- nature conservancy
- animals
- geothermal
- environment
Comparison games
- Savannah Park
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This extra twist of uh extra objectives to chase after if you build these is such a cool leveling up for the game
- This game is very mean-spirited oh the aggressive moves you can make really messing with your opponent
- This game is freaking brilliant
- This core idea is so brilliant one of the coolest new ideas I've seen in worker placement in years
- This is one of the best card drafting closed hand card drafting games of all time
- I would play this over seven wonders quite frankly because it adds so much depth and variety and control
- This game blew me and Jen away
- Jeffrey CCH might before too long make it into my top 10 favorite designers
- They have done the ultimate spinning gears game
- This is going to make a lot of top 10 of the years for 2024 when it comes out later this year
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