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Game Info
Year
2025
Players
1-4
Age
10+
Playtime
45 min
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Description
Smallfolk is a cosy engine-building card game about adventuring, myths, and legends. Each player takes a Hero's Journey, weaving tales of about mythic wonders, powerful relics, and helpful smallfolk. Victory points are accrued by meeting certain heroes along the road and by assembling your engine.
Each turn, adventurers take one of two actions in order to play cards, generate resources, or travel along the path.
—description from publisher
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Meeple University Top 10 List at 2:34 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Beautiful artwork
- Tactical gameplay due to lack of simple resource gathering
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- folklore
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — You need to draft the cards, you need to pay the cost of resources.
- Resource Management — This is a tableau building with resource management.
- Tableau Building — This is a tableau building with resource management.
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- As usual, we're going to share you games that we played in June 2025, the first time we played. So, not necessarily new games.
- It's all our opinion.
- All the new to us games for June.
- So, we are going to alternatively share from the number five to number one.
- Very aggressive, very hatedraft induced, but it's really great game.
- This is a really clever market uh economic type of game.
- It's really satisfying when you upgrade things when you try to all right what do we do first?
- This is the new pandemic system game set in the Lord of the Rings universe.
- Pleasantly surprising was how was the differences between this and Pandemic and how it felt like a very different game to Pandemic.
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Where There's A Wilz, There's a Play Review at 0:45 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- gorgeous, watercolor storybook art with a cozy folklore vibe
- satisfying engine and tableau growth that rewards sequencing
- snappy turns with three actions per player keep games quick and flowy
- clever cross-cultural folklore interactions and thematic variety
Cons
- early plays can involve analysis/paralysis as players learn card interactions
- storytelling flavor is perceived as lacking due to limited flavor text on cards
- solo mode is essentially beat-your-own-score with limited challenge or AI
- low player interaction beyond timing and shared scoring
Thematic elements
- Array
- multicultural folklore world
- storybook, cinematic moments with hero cards
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Movement — Journey actions move players around a map to gain rewards and trigger card effects.
- Engine Building — The combination of cards and actions creates an engine that scores points as you reach certain thresholds.
- Exhaust/Affinity Tradeoffs — Exhausting cards to gain other bonuses or draw three more cards creates decision tension.
- Hand Management — On your turn you play a card from your hand, manage exhausts, and trigger card abilities.
- movement on map — Journey actions move players around a map to gain rewards and trigger card effects.
- Quest System / Hero Exhaustion — Quests allow players to exhaust hero cards for powerful bonuses, usable once per game.
- Resource Management — Gems serve as resources; the game ends when gems run out or the deck runs out, affecting pacing and scoring.
- resource management (gems) — Gems serve as resources; the game ends when gems run out or the deck runs out, affecting pacing and scoring.
- Tableau Building — Players assemble a tableau of cards whose abilities trigger in synergy as the engine develops.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Small Folk is a cozy folklore forward tableau builder for one to four players.
- The artwork here and these are just the heroes. Absolutely gorgeous.
- This game has a very satisfying mix of like tableau building and board movement.
- three action turns for each player that keeps this game incredibly snappy.
- the storytelling aspect of it is kind of lacking.
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