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Year
2025
Players
1-4
Age
10+
Playtime
37 min
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Description
Resource management game fulfilling village wishes for field crops through trading and shared supplies
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Board Gaymes James Top 10 List at 0:59 sentiment: positive
video_pk 84596 · mention_pk 215101
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- cozy vibe with crunchy programming flavor
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- agriculture with programming-like mechanics
- Economic programming theme in a farm setting
- cozy presentation with crunchy programming elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- economic management — resource allocation and optimization decisions
- programming-like actions — programming-inspired actions to optimize farm output
- Resource Management — resource allocation and optimization decisions
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- It's another week closer to Spiel
- crunchy yet cozy games
- don't be deceived. This one is actually quite the think.
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UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 1:49:52 sentiment: positive
video_pk 84135 · mention_pk 213461
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Designed by Uwe Rosenberg
- Appealing artwork
- Potentially fun mechanics
Cons
- Weight might be a concern
- Uninspiring board design
Thematic elements
- Fulfilling the wishes of the village population with a supply of field crops and rewards.
Comparison games
- Glass
- Tuah
- Castles of Burgundy
- Zoret
- Lucky Numbers
- China
- Web of Power
- Feudom
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action Point Allowance — The game uses action points, where players spend them to perform actions.
- Area Control — It has an area control element where players might compete for control over certain regions.
- Route Building — Route building is mentioned as a mechanic, likely related to connecting locations or establishing supply lines.
- Set Collection — The description of collecting village needs and rewards suggests set collection.
- Worker Placement — The game involves dice worker placement, where dice determine actions and placement on the board.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Factions that win that have their own abilities that have their own winning combinations.
- It's too heavy for me.
- Yeah, it sounds absolutely amazing.
- Yep. And nobody knows it exists.
- I played Circadian First Light and I liked it.
- Scrolling through this thing with you said with the 300 responses and the people arguing about this game and I s there and it's like it's so amusing. The best part about it is you have these people arguing about Marxism and and uh and democratic socialism everything like that and then you have the people that are just trying vainly to get answers about the mechanics of the game. How does this work with the tricks when you do the thing? And it's just people going back and forth about, you know, screaming about uh, you know, like like how they're going to fix the world or whatever, which I I get it, you know, just it's it's who doesn't do that? But that's that's the part it it reminds me of.
- I watched in disbelief as businessmen voted for a repeat bankrupt, laborers for a boss infamous for stiffing his workers. Evangel evangelicals for a serial adulter for an admitted sexual assaulter. Patriots for a draft dodger who would sell his country's secrets for trivial gain. educated men for an ignoramus. But they did so with fierce gladness in their hearts because what their chosen one had done was open Pandora's box. Yes, the old one filled with the ancient calamities of race hatred and rage and cruelty and blood lust and infinite greed. and tell them that these things were the remedy for all of their grievances, that all their anger was justified, and most important, none of what ailed them was their own fault or ever had been.
- That is like the best paragraph I've ever uh Greg Isles in his book Southern Man.
- That is that is one of the that is uh yeah that was that is one of that is poetry.
- I played it and I could not remember anything. And that's it was such a quarter eater because they would like you'd be dead and it would like make you repeat the the move again and be like, 'Okay, is it left or right or up or down?' And you hit the button.
- No, it was free play, but it was like I played it and I'm like, 'Man, I really loved this back in the day and now I don't like it at all.'
- Everything but the ninjas is easy. The ninjas were like the the the And the ninjas just went on and on and on. You had to defeat like a thousand of them. It felt like
- Happy birthday, Bruno.
- It's just a It's just a It's just a virtual reality pinball.
- The elbow back. It was the most powerful move in the game.
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Rahdo Runs Through Top List at 1:36:39 sentiment: positive
video_pk 84001 · mention_pk 212808
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Extremely Positive
Pros
- Blew the host away
- Jen loved it, potentially one of the best games of the year
- Very satisfying combo chains
- One of Friedemann Friese's best designs
- Great satisfaction in pulling off combos
Cons
- Minor inconveniences with rules and iconography
- Host does not own a copy (yet)
Thematic elements
- Fulfilling villager contracts with farm produce
- A farm
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action Drafting — Moving the worker typically requires moving to a different spot each turn. (6058.32)
- Combo-building — Fulfilling cards grants special powers that can combo with each other, allowing for more efficient actions and card draws. (6097.52)
- contract fulfillment — Players fulfill contracts (cards) by gathering specific produce like tomatoes, cucumbers, pigs, sheep, or grain. (6035.60)
- Hand Management — Managing a hand of contract cards and fulfilling one, two, or three at a time based on harvested goods. (6122.28)
- Worker Placement — Players move a single worker to different spots on a central dial to harvest resources or draw cards. (6008.60)
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Ants. And I loved this game. Um it is a phenomenal worker placement game where we are controlling a colony of ants trying to, you know, spread out into the uh the countryside, um you know, set up pheromone trails of scavenging ants, exploring, dealing with big scary bigger bugs than us, like centipedes and millipedes and whatnot, getting to the far reaches where there are huge benefits if we're the first player to occupy, and, you know, basically expand our little ant kingdom.
- And unlike most other ant colony civilization games, there is no player versus player in this game. No direct attacking. We just have to fight, you know, the the other big bugs that are out there.
- this is a conveyor belt game, folks, and I love conveyor belts. The conveyor belt here is the life cycle of our ants.
- Everything about this game is fantastic.
- It's the second best game we played this month. It's Ants.
- The Last Droids.
- This game is phenomenal.
- It's an I split, I choose game, which is a fun little thing.
- That decision, which do I keep for myself, which two do I give to the other players, is phenomenal.
- The rules actually suggest that once the cards are revealed before the lead player hands them out and keeps one for themselves that players could say, "Hey, I really want that one."
- The art in this game is stunning.
- It is the best game I played this month as a three-player game.
- As a two-player game, I don't know. So, I'm going to have to do a follow-up in a future roundup, I assume.
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The Brothers Murph Review at 27:44 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Really enjoyed this game
- Really great kind of light game
- Really liked the look of it
- Cute look
- Happily play again
Cons
- Hoping it becomes available over here (US)
Thematic elements
- Contract fulfillment requiring different goods like wheat, tomatoes, pickles, sheep, and pigs.
- Farm
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Players draft cards from a central market.
- contract fulfillment — Completing contracts by turning in required resources.
- Resource Management — Gathering goods like wheat, tomatoes, pickles, sheep, and pigs.
- Worker Placement — Using a worker disc to get more goods from a depot.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- The more we talk about this game, the more divisive I realize that it is.
- It's just it's it could be frustrating because it's a tugof-war, right? So you're like, "God, just give me this thing."
- Covenant fell flat for us. Felt like we didn't have enough time to upgrade our dwarves.
- I didn't do anything in this game.
- Concordia is such a classic.
- My short answer is Arcs is the worst game.
- Oh, Arcs is the worst game I've ever played in my life. Well, not worse. It's my least favorite game. That those are two different things.
- Star Wars Bounty Hunters. The game is trash.
- Dude, you should totally make a full Baron Park inspired park in Planet Zoo. That'd be epic, though. Severely on people watch it.
- Mountain goats is a great game.
- I love goats. Goats are cute.
- It's just a living lawn mower.
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Grant Lyon Other at 46:50 sentiment: positive
video_pk 82180 · mention_pk 206373
Click to watch at 46:50 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
- Tactical gameplay
- Resource trading
- Combo potential
- Fulfilling village wishes wins the game
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Farming, Trading
Comparison games
- Catan
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card fulfillment — you're trying to fulfill different cards and aspects and stuff like that.
- Engine Building — each of your fulfilled trade cards you can use to then pay for advantages as the game goes on.
- Hand Management — you draw a few cards and go, "Okay, what do I need to do to accomplish these?"
- Resource Trading — If you are a fan of the trading resources in a game like Catan, then that's a reason to check out Formidable Farm.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is a deck-building game.
- one of the interesting aspects of this is there's 13 ways to win the game.
- Essentially, 13 dark pacts in the game and each of those dark pacts is a unique win condition that feels, you know, it feels like crazy to get.
- You can also play two times and three times multipliers on those cards to double every aspect of the card.
- that just feels like a very satisfying aspect of the game.
- the main mechanism of the game is I split, you choose and that's always one of my favorite mechanisms because it's it's not a difficult game to teach, but it's a difficult game to make decisions.
- So, what do you sacrifice and what do you keep is also an interesting aspect of that one.
- This is a great family game if you want to.
- And so, there's a lot of lying and promising of other people where you're like, "Do you want to go there with me? Nobody else go there.
- I swear to god, don't go there."
- And so, there's a lot of sort of lying and intrigue and where you're going and promises that you're making and stuff like that.
- please, you know, check out my new series. It's all funny and games when it drops in May.
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