Game Info
Year
2025
Players
1-4
Age
10+
Playtime
45 min
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Description
Players build three-dimensional koi ponds by placing fish and transparent element tiles to fulfill objectives
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Top List at 43:44 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
- Better than Bonsai.
- Much better aesthetic appeal.
- Really neat game.
- Cool spatial building.
- Enjoy this game a lot.
Cons
- New to the list, replacing a previous game.
Thematic elements
- Designing and building a koi pond
- Japanese garden
Comparison games
- Bonsai
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Spatial Puzzle — Arranging elements within the tableau has spatial considerations.
- Tableau Building — Players build their own area (koi pond) with various elements.
- Tile Placement — Placing tiles to build the koi pond.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Atlantis Rising is a really fun cooperative game where you're trying to get as many people off of or rather away from the island of Atlantis as it's sinking into the ocean as you possibly can through these really neat kind of Stargate-esque wormholes.
- Architects of the West Kingdom is such a cool worker placement game.
- It's one of the one of the better ways that I've seen alpha players be handled in the in the in a cooperative game because it does restrict some information from the alpha player so that they cannot just tell everybody what to do.
- The ART Project also has a really neat theme.
- This is a fantastic implementation of trick-taking, cooperative trick-taking.
- The One Ring is the Trump in this game. But when you play out the One Ring, you can play it as a losing card or you can play it as a Trump card as the Trump card. So you get to pick.
- And the artwork is really what kind of brought it to the forefront for me.
- Aeon's End is a fantastic game where you are mages. You're however many people you are, you're cooperatively trying to fight whatever big bad creature is coming through the breach to a distract to attack and destroy Gravehold.
- This is basically that game that it replaced a little bit more growed up.
- Lord of the Rings
- Jamaica is a really neat game where you have your own pirate ship and uh, the other players have theirs and you're racing around the island of Jamaica.
- it's like this resource management game that's that's kind of enveloped into a racing game, and I really enjoy that that dichotomy that the game represents.
- if you put all of the cards back-to-back, it creates a a diorama.
- It's really light, but it's very fun.
- Burncycle is a fantastic game where you take on a little robot. Um and everybody else takes on a little robot. This is a cooperative game where you are robot espionage.
- It is completely and totally espionage at its greatest or or or that spy type of game is as it's greatest.
- you are running your actions based on the burn cycle, which is where your actions come from.
- So, Burn Cycle is just a fantastic game. It's chip theory games. All of your information is on the chips. Um and they're poker chips, but it's it's a beautiful game. Love it to death.
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The Board Game Garden Review at 22:21 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
highly positive
Pros
- wonderful
- relaxing
Cons
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Quotes (from this video)
- Realm of Reckoning is fantastic.
- The moment that I heard that one of the mechanisms is close drafting, immediately I was like, yes, let's play this.
- You are building up a tableau and then you are scoring in different ways based off of the game and what people decide to score and yeah just such a cool game.
- Recommend uh Realm of Reckoning.
- This is a tile placement game that I played in Edmonton that I really enjoyed.
- Absolutely loved it.
- One of my top games for the month of June.
- This is another tableau building, hand management game that I absolutely loved as well and was quite a big surprise to me that I enjoyed it as much as I did.
- Gen Con is officially 2 weeks away when I am filming this.
- If you guys are going to Gen Con and you see me wandering the halls, definitely come up and say hello.
- I'd love to meet you.
- I've been very, very excited for that part of Gen Con.
- I am just overall very excited to get back to Gen Con this year.
- I am very, very excited for that part of Gen Con.
- I've been recently getting more into the Pokemon TCG, and honestly, just TCGs in general.
- I'm really wanting to get back into Magic, Pokemon, TCG, Lorana as well.
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