Game Info
Year
2025
Players
2-4
Age
8+
Playtime
20 min
Collection
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Description
A tile-laying optimization game set in a dreamlike Scandinavian world where players place spirit-animal tokens.
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Game Night Picks - Pair Of Dice Paradise Top List at 0:34 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Racing to place all tokens by matching and mismatching tiles in forests
- The far northern forests of Scandinavia
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Tile Matching — Players match tiles in their forests.
- Tile sliding — Game tiles must be slid into and out of a central board.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Recall is our penultimate pick, because this is a deep strategy game from the designers of 2022's massively popular network building game Revive.
- Recall focuses on engine building and exploration as various tribes explore the lands and discover traces of ancient civilizations.
- Then, at three different points during the game, players must choose one of two paths, with the chosen path providing an immediate bonus as well as boosting one of the end-game scoring options.
- just like those players, we have reached our end game with this month's bestest bet, which is the super puzzly two-player maze deduction game Layers.
- Layers is full of both dungeon building and simultaneous dungeon exploration.
- It's a game that tests players to build a dungeon dangerous enough to confuse their competitor, while deftly defying a dungeon of their own.
- If you'd like to find even more great games to discover, well, then continue on to our latest episodes of our High Rollers or Hot Picks and Cool Recommendations videos.
- There are a lots more games that are ready for you to enjoy as your next game night pick.
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BoardGameCo Review at 8:06 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Enjoyed the game.
- Likes the point-scoring variability and multiple things to consider.
- Had a fun time with it.
Cons
- Not particularly incredible compared to similar games.
- Not filling out the grid feels anticlimactic.
- Not enough variety to make it interesting for repeated plays.
- The exact same thing every time without real nuance.
- After two or three plays, everything the game has to offer has been seen.
Thematic elements
- Tile placement and pattern building
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Pattern Building — Placing tiles on the personal board can create sets of like terrains or distinct river patterns to fulfill objectives.
- Set Collection — Players aim to get rid of animal tokens by creating groups of four or accomplishing variable scoring objectives.
- Tile Placement — Players slide tiles in a central grid to receive tiles for their personal board.
- variable scoring objectives — Goals change each game, offering different patterns and requirements to fulfill.
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Quotes (from this video)
- My rating's going to be get regular Codenames instead. It's a better game system.
- I would say that overall the game is cute, charming, easy to play, fairly accessible.
- Overall, I enjoy it. The biggest critique I have is for a game that's kind of has this low stakes to it.
- But it's a three out of five. It's a decent game. I had a fun time with it. But it's one of those games that once you play it two or three times, you've kind of seen everything the game has to offer.
- So I wanted to like this one, but I found it more of a frustrating experience to visually take in everything that's going on the table.
- Gloomhaven is easily my favorite game on this table with a fun little planting system as well as harvesting system and multiple things you're trying to do as you balance all those needs.
- And then lastly, Harry Potter Codenames Back to Hogwarts, as much as I do enjoy it, I just would rather play Codenames, regular Codenames, any day of the week.
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Before You Play Rules Teach
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Pros
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Cons
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Quotes (from this video)
- If you like these kind of videos and you want to see more in the future, please consider subscribing.
- The decision space is not that straightforward.
- It's easy to get caught up in the objectives. There's so many of them.
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Before You Play Rules Teach at 0:05 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- The game plays quickly, around 20 minutes.
- The tile placement mechanism is interesting, ejecting tiles to be placed.
- Multiple types of objectives keep gameplay engaging.
- Aurora tiles offer unique one-off abilities.
Cons
- The river objectives can be difficult to complete.
- Focusing too much on objectives can distract from the main goal of placing tokens.
- Some objective cards can make it harder to place animal tokens.
Thematic elements
- Spirit animals in the forest, specifically a fire fox known to create the Northern Lights
- Scandinavian legend
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — On their turn, players perform three actions: place a tile, place the ejected tile, and check for objectives.
- Objective Cards — Players work towards completing various objective cards (symbol, landscape, aurora) that grant rewards like placing tokens.
- Set Collection — Players aim to collect sets of same-colored forest tiles or specific configurations of tiles to complete objectives and place tokens.
- Tile Placement — Players insert forest tiles into a central mechanism, which ejects another tile that must be placed on their player board.
- token placement — Players place animal and river tokens on their board and objective cards as they meet certain conditions.
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Quotes (from this video)
- If you like these kind of videos and you want to see more in the future, please consider subscribing.
- The decision space is not that straightforward.
- It's easy to get caught up in the objectives. There's so many of them.
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