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Verdant is a puzzly spatial card game for 1 to 5 players. You take on the role of a houseplant enthusiast trying to create the coziest interior space by collecting and arranging houseplants and other objects within your home. You must position your plants so that they are provided the most suitable light conditions and take care of them to create the most verdant collection.
Each turn, you select an adjacent pair of a card and token, then use those items to build an ever-expanding tableau of cards that represents your home. You need to keep various objectives in mind as you attempt to increase plant verdancy by making spatial matches and using item tokens to take various nurture actions. You can also build your "green thumb" skills, which allows you to take additional actions to care for your plants and create the coziest space!
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Year Published
2022
Transcript Analysis
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Coffee a Couple top_10_list at 30:29 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Peaceful, mind-boggling puzzle with a gentle vibe
- Strong competing choices that drive interesting engine-building choices
Cons
- Not clearly the favorite among all three similar games (Cascadia, Calico) for everyone
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Calico
- Cascadia
- Cascadia
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is a cooperative decorating game where you're basically trying to meet the conditions of the house in order to make it work.
- One of the best crunchy feel type of games in the shorts amount of time.
- It's a really tight 4x4 puzzle and very replayable.
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Flatout Games general_discussion at 5:16 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- pleasant theme and presentation
- easy to teach
Cons
- restrictive tableau building
- draw luck can limit control
Thematic elements
- eco-friendly garden design
- garden and plant growth
Comparison games
- Cascadia
- Calico
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- hand management — manage a hand of cards for optimal placement
- set collection — collect plant tiles for scoring opportunities
- tile drafting — select landscape tiles to build your tableau
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Quotes (from this video)
- Point City replaces Point Salad for me
- this is one to four players
- it's about 15 to 30 minutes a game
- Cascadia I want Cascadia I like Cascadia I will play this I will share it I will enjoy it it's just my all-time favorite of their games
- Calico is a lovely strategy game it is a cozy spatial game but boy is it thinky
- Verdant is at the bottom I think mostly because of the restriction and luck of the draw
- Nocturn stacks up as a strong, open bidding game with back-and-forth tension
- the games come in these small boxes these are really nice size boxes great artwork and super super affordable
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Board Game Garden top_10_list at 14:52 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
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none
Cons
none
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Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Stardew Valley the board game can be played solo.
- This is literally the cozy farming game you can find in a board game.
- I 1000% recommend this one.
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Adam Porter's Board Game Channel analysis at 33:20:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Creative party game experience
- Hilarious results when poems are read aloud
- Generates bursts of laughter
- Unique genre in party games
- Appeals to creative-minded players
Cons
- Not for everyone - requires comfort with poetry writing
- Quiet party game with long thinking periods
- Less lively than some party games
- Probably won't see reprints due to niche market
Thematic elements
- Creative writing
- Poetry and wordplay
- Literary
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Create and compare creativity - poem writing — Players are given a rhyming scheme and must write poetic couplets using obscure words; players try to use words no one else has used to score points
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- that sense of destruction sheer destruction of the playing space and you don't get that much in board games
- i think that's a really nice level of interaction in games because it's not mean spirited it's not vindictive but it still means you've got to constantly keep thinking
- i've got my own deck that alone is exciting and different to the vast majority of games that i had played in the past
- the deck is created as we play we're buying cards from a central pool
- everybody's got a bit of the same information a bit of different information and it makes the game really really intriguing
- everybody's running around a table shouting over each other trying to find the people with the same card
- i've played it with my german family and my english family who can't speak to each other because i don't speak the same language but they could all play happy salmon together
- everyone's got their own set of poker dice and they're rolling them all at the same time you're not having to wait for somebody else
- these are just the most fantastic little components that i've i've found in games i absolutely love them
- it takes six minutes to play which is three rounds of drawing one minutes each and three rounds of guessing one minute each
- it's so frustrating it just gets in the way it's not fun
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Meeple Day top_5_list at 4:18 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Beth Sobel’s artwork is stunning and thematic
- Relaxing yet satisfying scoring system
- Beautiful presentation and theme resonance
Cons
- Solo mode is a bit fiddly and rule-heavy
- Marketing/market mechanics can be confusing
Thematic elements
- Indoor gardening and interior design
- A home lush with houseplants; 5x3 grid of plant and room cards
- abstract
Comparison games
- Calico
- Cascadia
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card drafting — Draft plant and room cards to place into a 5x3 grid, alternating plant and room cards.
- grid placement — Place drafted cards into your home grid obeying placement rules and vertex-based scoring.
- token/dedicated scoring — Use Verdancy tokens, watering, and fertilizer tokens to increase scoring potential on plant cards; matching room tokens boost scoring.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I really enjoyed this game I can see why so many people recommended it
- the solo mode plays almost exactly the same way with the exception of the market
- it's not the most ideal way to play Twilight Inscription with AI
- the rule book is a little bit complicated
- I would probably have to play it with higher player counts to feel the burn
- this is not a solo only game this is I believe up to four players
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Might I Suggest publisher_spotlight
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Quotes (from this video)
- Stonemaier games is 10 out of 10, would definitely recommend
- I'd much rather talk about a publisher who I really like to work with
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OFPG Voices general_discussion at 10:36 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- intriguing name; exciting potential
- described as one of Molly Johnson's designs worth trying
Cons
- not deeply explained in this segment; limited details available
Thematic elements
- ecology and ecosystem management
- nature/green growth
- educational, strategic
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Pattern Building — optimizing tile layouts for points
- tile placement — placing tiles to grow a board and trigger scoring
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- we celebrate women's history month by looking at some of the women in board game design
- gatekeeping and systemic racism in board gaming that we all need to overcome
- we need less games that are about cis white maleness we need more feminism we need more racial diversity
- acceptance and being a good human is saying that you're adequate and you're welcomed
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John Gets Games general_discussion at 14:02 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Very pretty presentation
- Good when you want a light, quick game
Cons
- Lacks crunch for heavier players
- Sometimes too light for frequent play
Thematic elements
- tile-placement with area control
- Nature/pantheon of flora
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area majority/tiles — Lightweight engine with area control aspects and tile placement.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I'm really curious to see how people react to it.
- The idea is that maybe I do this near the end of a month and then the update vlog obviously is a week later.
- It was a really fun time; it was a blast.
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Might I Suggest a Game top_10_list at 6:08 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- By creators of Calico and Cascadia
- Art by Beth Sobel (Calico, Cascadia, Wingspan)
- Puzzly gameplay
- Abstract puzzles
- Lighter than predecessors
- Wider audience appeal
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- houseplants
- home_decoration
- nature
- cozy
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- welcome back everyone it feels great to be back in the saddle and ready for a brand new year with brand new opportunities to give you the best board game recommendations out there
- i'm alex and welcome to might i suggested game a channel devoted to helping you find the perfect board game
- having to go through all the awesome releases that are scheduled for this year and narrow it down somehow was a gargantuan task
- i tried to generally order this list from lightest to heaviest game
- I think skateboarding is a totally underutilized theme in board gaming especially for a generation that was raised on tony hawk pro skater
- these tiny little dragons are adorable
- as a self-proclaimed wingspan superfan personally i mostly just see the similarities in the plethora of dog breeds
- i'm stoked to see this one fulfilled and get to play it in person
- the whole thing seems really thematic which is really my number one reason to try any of these games out
- i love poetry i even write a little bit of poetry myself
- if i'm going to play something this heavy i really want to be into the theme
- i think that's a brilliant idea i think it should have been done way earlier than this
- i'm alex your board game sommelier signing off
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