Game Info
Year
2025
Players
1-5
Age
10+
Playtime
30 min
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Description
Players explore a fantastical island by placing terrain cards and positioning hybrid creature tokens that score from the terrain around them
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Tabletop Tokki Unboxing at 20:46 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Unique art for different spaces
- Solo mode available
Cons
- Tiles are excessively large and take up table space
Thematic elements
- Documenting species
- Exploring an island
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- exploration — Explore the island.
- Set Collection — Document the species, score for discoveries.
- Solo Play — And we have our solo rules.
- Tile Placement — This one's tiling.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This one uses instead of cards and deck building, it uses poker chips.
- I really love the art. Oh my gosh, look at how precious this is.
- Whoa. Okay, sorry. These are chunky.
- I'm intrigued by the idea of having to adapt to what your opponents are playing.
- It's like a toddler puzzle. And for some reason, I'm just really struggling.
- This one was double shrink wrapped. What's happening? I don't trust it.
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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 133:20:00
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Pros
- Has lots of little fun wooden minis.
Cons
- The minis might be an add-on.
- The reviewer doesn't know if the minis are an add-on or included.
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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Quotes (from this video)
- All right. Good night everybody.
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Board Gaming Ramblings Discussion at 4:09
video_pk 84541 · mention_pk 308667
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- It's been super duper quick and I have to say before the next two like the next two months are going to be so fast.
- So like September and October is going to be so quick. Yes. I'm kind of I cannot wait for November because it's going to be quieter for work. Like the next two months is basically going to be work and board games.
- I had the most fun with Age of Galaxy.
- My biggest surprise was money.
- Biggest letdown for me it was Pulitzer.
- My number three is IR.
- My number three is Orlo the Prague Astronomical Clock because it's a super solid, super fun Euro game.
- my number two is going to be Fortunes of Scoundrel Bay, a new uh pirate game from Shadow Parks, also coming out at Spiel.
- My number one is Recall.
- Yes, my number one is also going to be recall.
- It's a very good game. If you want to see more about the reasons and also hear English words, I would re I would I would recommend going and look at the recall video.
- We hope you enjoyed it. It was a great fun and it had words in it.
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Hungry Gamer Review at 0:09 sentiment: positive
video_pk 84412 · mention_pk 309743
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Adorable and weird critter art
- Fast and easy to play
- Significant strategic depth for its size
- Good replayability, especially with the expansion
- Looks good on the table
- Clever and satisfying gameplay
Cons
- Slows down initial plays due to needing to check scoring conditions
- Lack of player aids for scoring conditions is a miss
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Confusing Lands
- Life of the Amazonia
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Creature Placement — After every turn, you're going to place down one of your creatures and you will score it right away.
- Set Collection — Scoring conditions are based on surrounding spaces or rows/columns with specific critter types or features.
- Tile Placement — This is a tile placement game where you're making this shared map. Every turn, you're going to place down one of your creatures and you will score it right away.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Oo, that looks tasty.
- Welcome folks. The Hung Gamer is back with another game review.
- And thank you to AllPlay for sending me this copy along with the expansion and the deluxe upgrade so I can make this video.
- The real delight in the game comes from the way that you're putting out the different cards, making the the territory, and trying to figure out the best way to take that one shot that you have with each of the animals that you're going to score.
- And I think it's a real miss that they don't have a card in there that just tells you this is how every single creature scores, one for every player. I think that's a huge huge miss.
- I think this is probably one of the best of these small box allplay games that I've played.
- if you like that tile laying and you like that idea of the unique scoring conditions for each of these different critters, then I think this one is one that you should absolutely take a flyer on.
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Board Gaming Ramblings Other at 5:18 sentiment: neutral
video_pk 82156 · mention_pk 308534
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
- Decent game
- Cleverly exploits opponent's moves
- Fun one
Cons
- Opponent's plays can ruin your plans
- Not fantastic
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Set Collection — And all different critters have different scoring uh opportunities basically.
- Spatial Puzzle — And the cards are making up like a map with different terrains. So it is a play spatial puzzle but a joint spatial puzzle.
- Tableau Building — You are playing cards in a common tableau h and you are placing these little critters on them and all different critters have different scoring uh opportunities basically
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Keep or Kell, the series where we play all the games and decide whether to keep them in a collection or call them while trying to give you reviews so you can find out if this is going to be a game for you or not.
- It is a neat game.
- It's a double cow.
- It's a keep from me.
- It's a call from me.
- It's a double call. Yes.
- I just hope we won't have deep regrets about that.
- It's a double kill.
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The Dice Tower Analysis at 7:54 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
- Liked the style
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Scoring animals
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- tile laying — A little tile-laying game.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I had to increase this rating to a 10. I play this all the time. Love this game, it's fantastic.
- This is a remake of an older game. Um Miss Miss Miss Miss I forget the Missenium or whatever it's called. Um from Reiner Knizia and the cows are being abducted. It's weird and unusual and I There's some things I liked about it, but I can't really recommend it because I think it's too odd.
- My kids liked it more though, but 6.5.
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Allies or Enemies Top List at 12:50 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Terrific little boxes
- Super competitive and cutthroat
- Monsters have different scoring methods
- Balancing offense and defense
- Messing with opponents is often a priority
- Similar interaction to Carcassonne
- Fun accidental interactions
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- competitive map building with scoring monsters
Comparison games
- Agropolis
- Carcassonne
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Compound Scoring — Each one of those monsters or creatures or whatever you want to call them have different ways that they're going to score and actually each one has two different ways cuz you can flip that card to either side.
- Map building — you're building a map together and you're putting chunks of that map over and under other tiles.
- player interaction — Other people are immediately going to mess with that and so you're kind of balancing messing with other people's scoring and then nailing your scoring at the same time.
- Positive Player Interaction — Other people are immediately going to mess with that and so you're kind of balancing messing with other people's scoring and then nailing your scoring at the same time.
- Scoring objectives — Each one of those monsters or creatures or whatever you want to call them have different ways that they're going to score and actually each one has two different ways cuz you can flip that card to either side.
- Tile Placement — you're going to be adding a tile every time to that map.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- So today we are talking about 10 games that we would recommend for playing at a picnic.
- first of all, they've got to have a small enough box that they're going to be easy to take to a picnic.
- Second, they've got to actually fit on a picnic blanket.
- And third, we want them to be at least a little bit safe from the wind.
- If you haven't heard us mention them, go check them out. They are great backpack games.
- This is one of these games that I'm like, I why didn't I think of this? This is so smart.
- So, you're just like constantly like trying to trick each other.
- So, once you've got two of those, you're so scared of taking the upside down card.
- It feels a little bit like Bomberman, where you set off these bombs and then they're going to blow up sometimes like in all directions.
- The tiles are pretty neat. They're like this like thick paper cardboard that have this great texture.
- We do talk about this one a lot, but it's so good, especially for this, especially when you're teaching this to new players.
- I've not taught this to someone who hasn't gone out and bought it or even bought it while we're playing it.
- It is really tricky to manage that limit of 10 because most well, all of the groups will score more if you have more of them.
- I just I love a game like this that you can teach like I taught you the whole rules.
- This does play excellently for picnics, especially if there's not a lot of wind because you are playing cards down to the ground.
- To win by tragedy, which is probably the most fun way, you are trying to cause different characters to die, and they're going to die in all different thematic ways.
- it makes it really tricky to draft cuz every time when you draft cards, your opponent plays first, giving them the opportunity to possibly win.
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kovray Top 5 List at 10:44 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- easy to teach to new players
- high versatility and humor with animal hybrids
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- tile placement with creature scoring — Players play a map tile and a creature; each creature scores differently; scores affect all players (collective scoring).
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Pictures did you know that this game won the Spiel
- it's a Hidden Gem
- it's a very underrated game in my opinion
- the gang is a Cooperative poker game
- diffuse the bomb
- five unlockable boxes in this game
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The Board Game Garden Discussion at 33:10 sentiment: positive
video_pk 33791 · mention_pk 309957
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- strong solo potential
- appealing world
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- small-box drafting with expansion potential
- oddball fantasy land with odd rules
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- open drafting — draft cards from a line to build a tableau
- Set Collection — collect components to trigger scoring
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is my favorite spot in the house.
- I could honestly do it for hours.
- I absolutely love the island cats, so I had to get that.
- The best purchase I ever made.
- I love solo modes, but I don’t want designers to force them when not a good fit.
- I could spend hours browsing that ginormous wall for hours.
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