Game Info
Year
2023
Players
2-4
Age
10+
Playtime
60 min
Collection
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Description
Economic game where players bid on ingredients and develop new menus to increase income and score
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Video M2am8Ckb2NY
Board Of It Review at 0:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Subtle, non-rule-overhead tweaks that expand options
- Increased animal variety and thematic depth
- Vavarium adds a satisfying, puzzle-like layer
- Modular board enables mix-and-match with base game
- Tactile meeples and overall aesthetic are appealing
Cons
- Requires removing the base game's market exchange board to use New Shores
- New animals are not dramatically different in mechanics from base animals
- Some players dislike the second edition rulebook for the base game (contextual, not expansion-specific)
Thematic elements
- Animal care, welfare, conservation, and visitor engagement
- Zoo management in a modern digital-era theme park, focusing on welfare, conservation, and popularity
- Heavy euro-style resource management with tactile park-building flavor
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Eggs mechanic — Eggs add breeding with gender-neutral eggs that can be assigned a gender later.
- End Game Bonuses — Endgame bonuses tied to tiles and welfare/conservation achievements.
- Endgame bonuses and conservation — Endgame bonuses tied to tiles and welfare/conservation achievements.
- Market board (base game) — Exchange and manage animals via a market board to acquire or rehome animals.
- Modular Board — New Shores introduces a modular market board that can be mixed with base game elements.
- Modular board integration — New Shores introduces a modular market board that can be mixed with base game elements.
- Player Board | Main Board — Exchange and manage animals via a market board to acquire or rehome animals.
- Running cost vs popularity — Balance running costs with population and popularity to optimize scoring.
- Terrain tiles and water costs — Water tiles enable aquatic or semi-aquatic species with specific cost implications.
- Tile/Map Shifting — Water tiles enable aquatic or semi-aquatic species with specific cost implications.
- Vavarium placement — A sideboard grid (Vavarium) where players place tiles after building to gain bonuses and endgame points.
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Quotes (from this video)
- we find this a really thematic, engaging, heavy euro experience
- this is not an expansion you need to get, but it's one that you will really enjoy if you are a fan of the base game
- the modular board... you can mix and match of the animals
- I definitely prefer the meeples. Not that they're bad in any way in the last game, but I think these ones really pop
- subtly tweaks the gameplay while having minimal rules overhead
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Video CXIR27sY5Lk
Board Of It Top 20 List at 26:21 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- rich theme and production
- deep, satisfying euro design
- expansions add variety
Cons
- heavy and fiddly; long play time
Thematic elements
- animal welfare and breeding systems
- zoo management heavy euro
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Worker Placement — manage animals, welfare, and zoo buzz; complex cascading actions
- worker placement and resource management — manage animals, welfare, and zoo buzz; complex cascading actions
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's by far the best puzzle game we've played
- the highs are highs and the lows are lows
- it's a really brilliant package
- negotiation makes it easier for people to get in
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