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Winter Kingdom features seven, double-sided hexagonal map tiles that are randomly arranged into the playing area. After that, three scoring conditions, one economy card (showing how players earn money), and one twist card are dealt, giving the unique features of the game. Each player is dealt five ability cards and one terrain card.
On your turn, you must place three houses in the terrain depicted on your terrain card. If possible, you must place the houses next to previously placed houses. (If not possible, they may be placed anywhere that matches the terrain on the card.) You also start the game with a limited number of forts, which can replace any house and which count as two pieces.
After placing houses, you may use your gold to make one purchase, either paying the cost to put one ability card into play or paying an additional cost on a previously placed ability to upgrade it. Once purchased, the ability may be used once per turn for the rest of the game. You start the game with a little gold to buy abilities and can earn more gold based on the economy card in play for that game.
The game ends once one player is out of both houses and forts. Players score based on the criteria of the scoring cards for that game; in addition, whoever has the most houses next to each castle scores 3 additional points. The player with the most points wins.
- Area control
- Wintry setting
- Kingdom Builder
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Players stake claims and control squares on the board by placing castles.
- Hexagonal Board — Uses hex tiles instead of rectangular boards for building out the system.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- And today we have a top 10 list for you.
- So we're we were thinking, what are some board games that give us like winter vibes?
- Ladies first.
- This is Winter Kingdom. This is kind of a winter version of Kingdom Builder um from Queen Games and and Donald X Yakarino.
- This is Dead of Winter. This is a very cool game both in terms of temperature and in its mechanisms.
- So, the number one winter vibes style game is a game called Riverside.
- we want to know what you have to say because when Wy and I were creating this list, we came up with so many games that were like that would be awesome to put on the list, but we haven't played it.
- Put those in the comments below because we want to hear from you.
References (from this video)
- expands on Kingdom Builder with new rules and pacing
- adds fresh mechanics like tunnels and different income methods
- Kingdom Builder
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- it's just such a satisfying game for me to play
- the scoring is so low it makes every point matter so much
- this is a voting game that you are going after you're interested in manipulating tokens on the board
- Mission Deep Sea is the Pinnacle version of the crew
- Ghost Stories is fantastic cooperative game
- Cascadia is such a great game
- Kingdom Builder ... it goes up to five to six players
- KeyForge unlike anything else I've played out there
References (from this video)
- new version that expands Kingdom Builder ideas
- offers a different pacing and mechanics while retaining core identity
- as of discussion, still early impressions; may vary with play group
- Kingdom Builder
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- it's just such a satisfying game for me to play
- the scoring is so low it makes every point matter so much
- this is a voting game that you are going after you're interested in manipulating tokens on the board
- Mission Deep Sea is the Pinnacle version of the crew
- Ghost Stories is fantastic cooperative game
- Cascadia is such a great game
- Kingdom Builder ... it goes up to five to six players
- KeyForge unlike anything else I've played out there