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Year
2024
Players
1-4
Age
10+
Playtime
30 min
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Description
Forests are magical places where different spirit animals live...
In Whispering Woods, you have to build trails for your spirit animals and thus complete missions that will benefit you with victory points. On each turn, you can collect two landscape tiles for your forest, or one quest tile with a particular path to be able to score in the future. You will also be able to complete several chain rides with your animals, which allows you to obtain career goals that will benefit you even more.
Grow your forest, and walk its trails with your spirit animals. Good planning will allow you to hike several trails consecutively — but take care as a planning mistake can cost you dearly.
Whispering Woods includes a mode for solo play.
—description from the publisher
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Analysis at 13:19 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Very good demo
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Andromeda's Edge
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Felt a little bit lackluster in terms of big releases for me.
- But you know, if uh there's no one around to Does the forest still shuffle?
- This is a game of managing resources, is a game of um uh territorial control and tableau building.
- Dexterity games are not ball games.
- IV Studios smashed it out of the park with this one.
- My main point of contention with Drillers is maybe it might run long with too many players and there is a little bit of downtime in the game when you're waiting.
- It's all to play for. It's only half time.
- The industry is backloaded. It's like heavily weighted towards the second half of each year.
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kovray Discussion at 5:02 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Don't judge this this is what we do before we go to conventions
- when we get back we're going to be doing a recap video where we'll talk about our experience there
- type in what game you want to play
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kovray Top 10 List at 46:30 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Rich, deep puzzle with multiple viable paths
- High-quality physical component design
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- tile placement with goal-driven scoring
- enchanted forest
Comparison games
- Photosynthesis
- Onitama
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- tile placement with goals — Place tiles to fulfill evolving goals, flipping tiles to new goals.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is also Ilia's number eight. Galactic Cruise. All right.
- The theme is amazing. The variability is fantastic. I love the different strategies that I've been able to discover through this.
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Hungry Gamer Top List at 10:12 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Looks really pretty
- Exciting
- Original Don loved it and played it multiple times
Cons
none
Thematic elements
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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Quotes (from this video)
- And so there we have the new list. And as you can see we got Flamecraft Duel's played which is a really good head-to-head two-player cozy game set in the world of Flamecraft with the adorably cute theme of this is the lunchtime game that the Flamecraft dragons play tiling.
- The deluxe edition is just a freaking triumph [snorts] of production. Beautiful beautiful game.
- This is a very cool production. It looks like a book.
- Really clever game in that it uses this idea of you place multiple workers down on each space that you do and that determined who gets to act first. And then all the worker placement spots activate in order.
- It is the most generic name with the most beige-y generic looking boards. But really good.
- It's not a flip and write game but it's basically a flip and write game except instead of writing you have little cubes you're putting out. And it's just a really satisfying fast game and the way it works out and the way the cards come out and the way you get to customize your own board, it's a really really satisfying game.
- everything I'd heard was it didn't quite stick the landing and it didn't quite stick the landing but I did have a good time with it.
- This is a co-op real-time word game that is just so very clever.
- And one of the cool things about this new expansion is this is one of those expansions that is a sometimes used. And I find that that is very very rare.
- This was all the rage at Gen Con and what a cool game.
- It's probably Mrs. Hungry Gamer's favorite game.
- This is a dungeon crawl that's actually a pretty light and simple dungeon crawl as far as the gameplay goes but like a Dungeon Universalis has all of the rules that you can imagine. Rules for almost everything and the s- stick is it has this beautiful cardboard scenery. I mean beautiful scenery.
- This is not one that's like a Tales from the Red Dragon Inn or a Wanderer's Cult of Barnacle Bay that I'm like, 'Okay, yeah, get this to the table.' This is one that I'm going to play by myself a lot.
- I really like adventure card games. I don't really care about Cthulhu. So, I'm curious how this is going to drive for me.
- And he [clears throat] loved it. He played it multiple times at the con. And so, now I'm extra excited to play this game.
- This is a game that was my honorable mention game of the year two years ago as kind of like my heavier than normal game for me that I thought was really really good.
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Meeple University Top 10 List at 10:07 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Strong interaction flavor from the publisher's catalog
- Druidic, cozy theme
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- forest/botanical magic
- druidic druidic-themed world
Comparison games
- Flamecraft
- Andromeda's Edge
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bag_building — Bag-building mechanics with powers to activate actions.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- "This is our anticipated holiday before our anticipated game."
- "I'm very excited. Like it's going to be great great great games, I think."
- "it's based on the Imperium fantasy book series"
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The Dice Tower Analysis at 1:43 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Rewarding for setting up multiple patterns in a row.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Pattern Building — Players try to form patterns on a board and move pieces onto those patterns.
- Tile Placement — Players are pulling tiles out of a bag and trying to form patterns.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Carcassonne: Over Hill and Dale, this is one of those expansions that I just missed.
- This is a big, grandiose game with a lot going on, and it's too slow and too boring for me to enjoy it.
- This is my least favorite Carcassonne game. I hate this game.
- This is one of the biggest, longest games I've ever played.
- It's the bad quality's bad.
- This one is fine. Um this one is not as bad as the other one I played was that you go around and you find stuff. It doesn't look very good though, does it?
- Leaders on the other hand are a great two-player game where you have a bunch of leaders and you're trying to capture your opponent's leader.
- Of all the games I talked about today, I think my favorite is actually Leaders.
- Leaders is a very, very excellent two-player game.
- This is a re-implementation of Survive: Escape from Atlantis.
- A little auction game. There was just some really neat like there wasn't many games like this. Now, there are many, many, many games like it.
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Board Stupid Top List at 5:02 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Mechanics are interesting and engaging
- Druid theme is appealing
- Risk-reward system adds tension
Cons
- Potential for disappointment if bag draws are bad.
Thematic elements
- Druids reclaiming a forest
- Enchanted forest
Comparison games
- Flamecraft
- Flamecraft Duel
- Andromeda's Edge
- Quacks
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Trying to cleanse lands from corruption.
- Bag Building — Players put tokens inside a bag, draw tokens at the start of the round to perform actions.
- Push Your Luck — Absorbing corruption can affect incantations if too much is absorbed.
- Set Collection — Collecting tokens from the bag to perform different enchantments or sorceries.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is the game of the show so far on the all the previews.
- It's chaotic by in a very good way.
- The new artwork is absolutely beautiful. I find like it looks unreal.
- You are competing to create the best yearbook essentially.
- Each one of the gods will have different powers, will have specific like asymmetric power.
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The Broken Meeple Analysis at 24:45 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
- Solid
- Potential light game of the year
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)
- I want to know what they're doing for the seven to 10 players though. If they're literally just giving you more chips and cards so you Yeah, if if all it is is just they're giving you more chips and saying, 'Now you can play it with 10.' That's rubbish. That's BS, okay? Because the game just fundamentally wouldn't work.
- The thing that has me worried though is this 120 to 180 minutes. Is this a game that warrants two to three hours though?
- The game is basically just area control cubes. That to me doesn't scream out crazy fun.
- Deep Regrets is one of the worst games I've ever played, so screw that for a game of toy soldiers.
- I think we've hit that peak of board gaming and now it's mostly a kind of downhill slope for gaming because we've now seen everything that can be kind of done. We're now recycling ideas.
- Board games are getting to a point where we are seeing the same stuff all the time and it just means that it's hard to get excited for another convention.
- UK Games Expo is mostly just recycling stuff that we've already reviewed at a few months ago in which case I don't need to look at it again.
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The Broken Meeple Analysis at 1:01:16 sentiment: other
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Intrigued but concerned
Pros
- Looks very pretty
- Interesting corruption mechanic
Cons
- Potentially very long playtime (120-180 minutes)
- Bag building games often lack theme
Thematic elements
- Magic, restoration
- Fantasy, nature restoration
Comparison games
- Wonderland's War
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Bag Building — It is a bag building game.
- Corruption mechanic — Take on too much corruption and you'll compromise your own abilities.
- Push Your Luck — Implied by the concern over long playtime for a bag-building game, drawing parallels to Wonderland's War.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I want to know what they're doing for the seven to 10 players though. If they're literally just giving you more chips and cards so you Yeah, if if all it is is just they're giving you more chips and saying, 'Now you can play it with 10.' That's rubbish. That's BS, okay? Because the game just fundamentally wouldn't work.
- The thing that has me worried though is this 120 to 180 minutes. Is this a game that warrants two to three hours though?
- The game is basically just area control cubes. That to me doesn't scream out crazy fun.
- Deep Regrets is one of the worst games I've ever played, so screw that for a game of toy soldiers.
- I think we've hit that peak of board gaming and now it's mostly a kind of downhill slope for gaming because we've now seen everything that can be kind of done. We're now recycling ideas.
- Board games are getting to a point where we are seeing the same stuff all the time and it just means that it's hard to get excited for another convention.
- UK Games Expo is mostly just recycling stuff that we've already reviewed at a few months ago in which case I don't need to look at it again.
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BoardGameCo Top List at 7:37 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Intrigued by the first round
- Sees the designers' vision
- Escalation of character abilities and action upgrades is appealing
Cons
- Does not know how to explain the game overall
- Does not know the end game goals
- Has not played a full game yet
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Bag Building — Bag building is also a mechanic.
- Tableau Building — Mentioned as a mechanic.
- Worker Placement — Mentioned as a likely mechanic.
- World map — There is a world map element.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is one of those incredible games.
- This is a light dice chucking game, but I find it to be so much fun.
- It looks absolutely charming.
- Potatoes is your currency.
- It is incredibly tense.
- I thought this was absolutely brilliant.
- The experience I got was not the experience I was expecting to get.
- I love Dartmouth, I do.
- I think expansions improve the experience.
- one of the things that's actually funny about this one is if you look at the the the reviews on this, the reviews, one of the negative reviews has me more interested.
- I don't care about deck builders.
- similar to Lost Ruins of Arnak, one of my favorite games of all time, but with more deck-building, yes, please.
- this could be a CGE game that knocks it out of the park.
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kovray Top List at 15:04 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Phenomenal art.
- High production value (likely miniatures).
- Speaker loves bag building games.
- Fun.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Andromeda's Edge
- Flamecraft
- Flamecraft Duels
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Bag Building — It is a bag building game.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- So, we have two more games to talk Oh, wait, no. I guess four more games to talk about because two to buy and two to demo. Wait, one more to demo, two buy. Oops, silly little figured.
- You're going to play and you're going to instantly get hungry cuz all the unique illustrations and of all the little treats are just
- This is a The Lord of the Rings. The Lord of the Rings and it is a roll and write. It is a roll and write.
- I understand the game being like very much you're playing the person on your right and you're playing the person on your left. You're taking the role of like the good and the bad in this game to uh go on against the opposite on the right and the opposite on the left and I think there's a lot of interactions that go on, a lot of communication that will have to happen around the table to make sure that the turns are flowing.
- I'm a huge fan of Sashi and Sashi and they will be debuting to move Railway Porters at UKGE.
- It is by Taiki Shinzawa and it's a trick taking game where every player has a condition that they must follow in their trick taking. But every condition is different.
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Unknown Channel Top 10 List at 12:12 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Beautiful components and art
- Very cozy and relaxing to play
- Good replayability with different setups
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- garden/village aesthetics with a calm vibe
- Woodsy, nature-themed cozy tile placement
- relaxed, aesthetically pleasing puzzle
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Tile Placement — Place tiles to form a woodsy landscape and optimize scoring.
- tile_placement — Place tiles to form a woodsy landscape and optimize scoring.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- There are two number one games because I can't choose.
- Stardw Valley Extra Cozy Level Board Game Edition.
- cozy queen right here.
- Perfect game. Perfect game. I've never played such a perfect game in my life.
- I can't explain it. You just have to try it.
- The setup is too long.
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Crimsonboardgames Playthrough at 0:10 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Beautiful art and production quality
- Works well both solo and multiplayer
- Relaxing, puzzle-like but with meaningful challenge
Cons
- Frustrating when required tiles are not drawn
- Complexities can be brain-melting for some players
Thematic elements
- Tile-placement puzzle with animal goals
- Forest / woodland environment
- Solitary, goal-based progression through levels
Comparison games
- Cascadia
- Calico
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- sequence_completion — Complete color sequences or patterns along animal paths; can be completed left-to-right or right-to-left.
- solo_and_scaling_goals — In solo mode, players aim to reach a point threshold while cycling through escalating goals; level 1 is reachable with 60 points, levels 2+ introduce multi-goal challenges.
- Tile Placement — Place tiles to create pathways and to set up patterns that satisfy animal-themed goals.
- tile_placement — Place tiles to create pathways and to set up patterns that satisfy animal-themed goals.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- this box art is stunning.
- this game is absolutely stunning.
- it's so chill.
- the puzzle is just so different from a Cascadia or a Calico puzzle.
- I think the tiles look beautiful.
- this I do need in my collection.
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Rahdo Runs Through Review at 0:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- animals
- nature
- whimsical
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- one of the best if not the best boss battler out there
- this is the must get expansion if you're only going to get one
- you've never seen dragons quite like these they are stunning
- Simone Luciani strikes again
- freaking brilliant
- one of my top three favorite Thematic settings in board games
- live the best life you can
- be the best human being you can
- probably my game of the year
- there is no way it doesn't make it into my top 10 of the year
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Our Family Plays Games Discussion at 38:38 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- strong thematic depth
- family-friendly presentation
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- forest guardianship and mystery
- a magical forest
- adventure with secrets to uncover
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- task completion — collect items and complete tasks to win
- tiles/board exploration — explore sections of the woods to progress
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Happy Birthday time for Grant.
- We love you so much.
- We are taking OVER THE WHOLE HOTEL.
- The Omaha Gaming Convention will be right here in Omaha, Nebraska.
- Meepleathon here we come!
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