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Year
2026
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Mechanic profile
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Waiting on more creator content
Description
Seeking to end world hunger with giant apples, scientists used their discovery on the wrong plants, and now the apples will be feasting on them! Soon the rest of mankind will be snacks, too, unless you brave gardener-robots — the only non-vegetable sentient beings in the lab not yet eaten — take care of this infestation.
In the 1-4 co-operative game Karnivorous, players must allocate their dice to trigger actions: run through the lab, fight plants, and resolve crisis cards that increase their knowledge of these aggressive plants. Only the best use of your dice results will allow you to stop this rampant deadly growth!
—description from the publisher
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Sir Thecos Top List at 16:09 sentiment: other
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Interested
Pros
- Cooperative game.
- Features mutated carnivorous plants.
- Players use dice for actions.
- Designed by Inca and Marcus Bond, known for other games.
- Associated with Impatience Games, whose games the host likes.
Cons
- Uncertain if it will be released in time for Spiel.
- Uncertain if it will be released at all.
Thematic elements
- Mutated carnivorous plants
- Laboratory
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Players try to keep the situation under control, implying a need to manage threats.
- cooperative play — Players work together against the game.
- Dice Placement — Players use dice to take actions.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Walking in Kamogawa. This is actually this is like a must buy for me.
- This is supposed to be a fast and confrontational gangster game that is played across like a changing city map.
- There's no solo mode here as far as I know. So, uh, let me check again. But I think there's no solo mode. Yeah, that is like a downer.
- But I have heard very interesting thing about this things about this game and also looks pretty cool.
- So um, these are like eight dragons. Then the expansions for buttons and bugs which I don't play as much to be honest. Then we have mercenaries wanted Nippon Sibatu Observatory and Satchel Quest.
- Most likely my list will be a lot different than other content creators lists. Um, and that makes sense because I am very I I'm like very focused on this niche of um playing solo games and not only that also like trying to find like the wacky less known games.
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Totally Tabled Top List at 1:49 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Major talent behind it (designers, artist, publisher)
- Bonkers theme
- Hopes for interesting artwork
- Short dice rolling solo game
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Brave gardener robots stopping genetically altered man-eating apples from escaping the lab and ending humanity.
- A lab
Comparison games
- Rajas of the Ganges
- Exit series
- Underfalling Skies
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Cooperative — Carnivorous is a cooperative dice game.
- Dice Rolling — You're using dice to take various actions like moving through the lab, killing plants, and dealing with crisis cards.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I think Vlad Chavatal, and as I always have to say, I'm sorry for butchering your name, I think he's a genius and the greatest board game designer ever.
- The fact that one man designed all of these board games is mind-blowing. Nobody has this kind of range.
- I can't tell you how happy I am that this isn't just another cooperative campaign game.
- I find the Kingdom Come universe so uninteresting.
- The realism of this medieval setting that makes the video game so unique and intriguing just doesn't translate to the board game space.
- Its fantasy world appears to be overflowing with absurdity.
- This is the only game coming out at Essen that I think could genuinely surprise me, where I could flip over a card and see something that I've never seen before.
- Maybe I'm just starving for creativity.
- And that's why Greenwood is my number one most anticipated solo game of Essen 2026.
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