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2025
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Description
Malus Hortus is a cooperative game, all players win or lose together. Players are a party of Nymphs who have been lured in to this beautiful garden by day, only to find it turns evil at night and does not want you to leave. Do not let the word ‘garden’ fool you, this place is a vast woodland with shifting terrain and it will take many days to find your way to freedom.
The main aim of the game is to work together to ensure every Nymph leaves the board, escaping Malus Hortus. Along the way there are evil Flowers to avoid and Critters to save from the garden.
Magical creatures from many different realms find themselves ensnared by, and lost in Malus Hortus; through Night Cards and Critter Cards you will encounter some of them along your journey, as well as being affected by the enchantments they use to try and flee. Be warned, not all of them are quite as kind natured as your fellow Nymphs, it is not just the Flowers of Malus Hortus that you need fear.
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Sir Thecos Top List at 16:39 sentiment: positive
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Positive
Pros
- Enjoyed this game a lot
- Had quite a lot of fun playing it
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- Count of the Nine Estates. Um, a game people keep suggesting to me and I've played it over the years off and on and I think it's not bad.
- Distilled clear Srank. It's such an amazing game. I absolutely love this.
- Draftosarus, also the game I very much enjoy. I will give this an A. S would be too much, but it's such a cute and nice uh drafting game.
- Cluster. Uh you have um a circle made of like a rope like a ropes circle rope circle so to speak and everybody gets like the same number of magnets and you put the magnets in the middle and when you put down your last magnet you win.
- Exobase also a game that I will bring a video to you at some point.
- Magic Keys in English. I think um this is like a children game actually. It's a children's game, but we play like with like I think we were like four adults playing that.
- Malus Hotos. I just released a preview video for that for the Kickstarter campaign and I enjoyed this game a lot.
- Micro City is a pretty decent game in a small box. Um, but it's also nothing all too amazing, right?
- Reforest clear as this is an absolutely amazing game.
- Sally Face Strange Nightmares uh for the video game uh Sally Face and I found this game quite decent actually.
- Stone Spine Architects uh in the roleplayer universe. And I like this a lot. I will give this an A.
- Switch and signal. I'm a little conflicted on that one.
- Yatsi. Yeah, this is like a guilty pleasure, right? We all know it's not an amazing game, but Yatsi is the basis for like a lot of other games with this mechanism of rolling your like rolling your dice and then being able to reroll some of them twice.
- Buds and Blooms from Mark Tuck. Also a game that I enjoyed playing.
- And actually, you know what? I'm actually missing one game. I also played Wingspan.
- Wingspan would also be an S of course and would be up here.
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Get into games Analysis at 7:16 sentiment: positive
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positive
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- very excited about the new game
- player color tins are fantastic
- amazing jewelry that you got some of her
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- Hello, and welcome to Get into Games on Air, a podcast about board games and the people who play them.
- It's a bit of a trek if we were to go there and back.
- Hi, we're Board Stupid. My name is Wayne. And I'm Matt. And do you know anything about a town called Worthing?
- Hi, it's Lee from Molyneaux Ares Games. We're on our way to Paradise where we'll be demoing Before the Rain, our new Kickstarter coming out in April. It's a push your luck game about bees and flowers. We're also demoing Time Troopers, a solo co-op game which you may have heard of.
- And we have a super special guest for you this afternoon. He is a mathematician, a pianist, an athlete, a writer, a game designer, and a ninja, apparently.
- So, effectively I'm Yeah, I've I'm a I'm a game designer nowadays and yeah, Black Metro is the the my main project that I've that I've designed.
- So, Black Metro is a strategy board game, two to four players. Takes around two hours, six rounds, most points wins.
- So, it was tricky tricky either way. So, with regard to crowdsource funding, I'll I'll put it bluntly. Like you need to have a pretty big active user base.
- My friend said the similar thing. Yeah, my friend my audio engineer, he was like, yeah, you've got such a like a thematic game. I think just just adding that audio element to it as well. It's It's also for people who who play digitally as well, right?
- Toodle pip is my new catchphrase.
- And remember to Get into time trippers. Time trippers on Tag Becky. Tag Becky.
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- Angry plants and fairies
- Wild gardens
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- cooperative play — A one to four player cooperative game.
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- This is 100% one of the best games from independent designers that I have played, and I highly recommend that you try this one, too.
- Quest for Bigfoot, which is a fantastic first-time independent publisher.
- Toilet Go is a wonderful cute about poop, but it's brilliant and you should definitely check out Taiwan Games when you get a chance.
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