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Ecosystem is a card-drafting game in which players choose cards and place them into their play area turn by turn. The cards in a player's grid make up their own personal ecosystem, and at game's end, a player will have twenty cards in their ecosystem, with the game including eleven types of cards. Bears score by being placed next to bees and trout; trout score by being placed next to streams and dragonflies; and streams are compared at the end of the game, with the player who has the largest stream earning points. These are just a few examples of how scoring works in Ecosystem. Don't forget to diversify!
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Year Published
2019
Transcript Analysis
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Dice Tower retrospective at 4:23 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- accessible, educational
Cons
- rushed tension at times
Thematic elements
- biology / ecology
- drafting and ecosystem building
- educational yet competitive
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- drafting — players draft cards to build ecosystems
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Quotes (from this video)
- One of the greatest experiences I've ever had playing a board game ever.
- It's all about board games, but especially the people who play them.
- This is Look Back, a series that I do where I talk about games that I reviewed one year ago, 5 years ago, 10 years ago, and 20 years ago during this time frame.
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Three Minute Board Games top_5_list at 3:19 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
- family-friendly and quick to teach
- easy to pick up for non-gamers
Cons
- looks uninspired; feels like a tableau of unrelated pictures
- scoring system is complex to learn
Thematic elements
- ecology and interdependence
- a grid-based drafting where ecosystem relations matter
- educational yet lighthearted
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card drafting — hand of 10 cards is drafted and placed into a tableau
- grid adjacency scoring — points come from spatial relationships like salmon by rivers and bears by salmon
- tile placement — place cards to form a 4x5 grid with adjacency scoring
- tile/area placement — place cards to form a 4x5 grid with adjacency scoring
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's just a simple nine card puzzle game
- it's fine for what it is
- it's not going to be a deep game that holds Brass's attention
- it's actually surprisingly fun
- oh hanami is a great game
- small box games can be great games
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