How many players can play Countryside?

Countryside supports 1 to 4 players.

How long does a game of Countryside take?

A typical game of Countryside takes approximately 60 minutes.

What are the best video reviews of Countryside?

MindForge has curated 6 video reviews of Countryside from top board game content creators.

Countryside - Board Game

Video zmKS1nc1e9k Tantrum House Top List at 31:57 sentiment: positive

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Overall sentiment (raw)

positive

Pros

Cool box art
Farming theme

Cons

none

Thematic elements

Farming
Countryside

Comparison games

none

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

Set Collection — it's a set collection type game

Video topics + discussion points

No key topics recorded for this video.

Quotes (from this video)

My number three is the Royal Society of Archaeology from Hutch Games.
Mine is Bohemians. This is from Portal Games.
Countryside is the one I picked for this one.
My number two also involves animals sort of. It is Aquaria.
My most anticipated Essen 2025 game is Kingdom Crossing from Sorry We Are French.
Well, my number one is Wispwood from CGE.
We've enjoyed Castle Combo a lot with our group.
Lord of the Rings Duel, which has been very popular, is getting an allies expansion.
And then Windmill Valley Oh, yep. Really enjoy Windmill Valley. It's I don't know if you can see it. See it. Windmill Valley, that's getting the Blooming Sails expansion.
And then one other honorable mention is called Twisted Trumpets from Play to Z.
What is it? We would love for you to tell us in the comment section after you like this video, what your most anticipated Spiel game is going to be.

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Pros

none

Cons

little bit dented here

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)

Yes, maybe we knew there were still some games in transit.
It's like 300 plus 150. I can't remember how much I pay about that much. 450 €450 something like it's about 500 Australian dollars.
Sadly, they didn't survive the post.
It's probably because actually no not the Pacific Ocean cuz that's the least direct ocean to get to Australia.
So some people who really likes to care of their board games, please do not yell to anyone.
It's still playable, although it's like bitten up like really bad, especially on the side.
So, this is uh this is Space Cowboys. Sorry, Space Cowboys. We haven't been able to display a perfectly square box, but rest assured you at home, if you purchase from your friendly local game store, it will be square.
This is by the people who did Ghost Lift who we uh which we shown last time.
I am excited to play Recall.
So, there are more that or three more actually games.
If you have heard of Startups, please let us know if you enjoy it or if you don't like it.
Um, this is Fman Frey's game called Floss, which is Fearless.
I think I'm okay with this. Like, looks like everything is intact.
I like this art here. I like this angular very stark angular uh geometric shape.
So, this is like um a draft.
This is very sad. This is uh I can't really give these toys to Teran.
So, this is Limit. It's about environmental and this is the last games I think.
Um, yeah, maybe it is rare. Maybe it's going to worth a lot in the chart, but it's dented a little bit.
So, this is um yeah, maybe it is rare. Maybe it's going to worth a lot in the chart, but it's dented a little bit. Right.
And this one I remember the preview from last year's Essen. So I remember being quite interested in this one.
So, this is um yeah, maybe it is rare. Maybe it's going to worth a lot in the chart, but it's dented a little bit.
This is a two-player game kind of like push and pull by uh Korea board Korea board games.
So, this is the only one that I got from Korea Board Games and hoping this is going to be a fun two-play game that we got we can bring to Bali in our family visit soon.
So, those are these are um little wooden potatoes.
What do you call it? The laser cut.
Laser rocks. Laser.
Is it laser rocks or just general? No, just general general laser cut.
Yeah, laser cut. And including the potatoes. It's very good.
Caution signs is one of the one that we got from Essen.
This is again, this is not new, but this is a good party game plays a lot of people, which is what is it now? Nine players up to nine players where one person is a guesser, the other one is drawer. You have 20 seconds to draw a combination of stuff and the guess I will need to and the cards would get mixed.
You will get an adjective and a noun and draw them together.
Very good there.
Yes. And then it's kind of so clovery you have to or a guesser has to align them correctly. Yes.
Good fun. So this is uh we've got three things from Delicious Games this year.
One you've seen last time which is the underwater city expansion. Second one is Aquaria. This is a Thomas Hollik game.
Yes. So obviously he had the very also slightly broken on the corner. He had the very big show last year with Seti Galileo and uh the tea.
Yeah. I heard good things about this one as well. Yeah.
And his release this year. Yes. So, and then the second one from delicious games is Aperna. This is Vladimir Sushi. The only Vladimir Sushi's game. Suhei. Vladimir Sui's game.
That's what I've been singing in my head. Now you've got it.
Yeah. Yeah. So, this is um our only Vladimir Suhi's game. And this is a smaller box. So, yeah. Nice little cute box.
We've been enjoying these games including last year's release for Safa. Oh yes, he's he's had uh many classic releases over a long time. So many. So many.
So before we move on to the next games, these magazine I got handed over magazine which is called Joy.
Fort is it for depends what language it is. Yes. So there's not a lot of magazines around these days, but this is one of them. Um, why the first RPG season is the most important, challenging, and satisfying. Part two.
So, a mix of things there and then a bag. I don't know if you know that I collect bags. So, on my birthday, please give me bags. Backs.
Yes, Hobby tote bag. Yes, tote bag. And it's got two handles.
Um, over there is a And it's got two handles.
Yeah. It's actually a thoughtful review of the bag.
Yes. There's the Soros. This is from Super Mele. Now, Super Meles distribute lots of games and this is one of their release games. It's actually sold out at Essentville. So, yes, it was one of the bigger games. Yeah. Shri Mill. Yes.
So, it's looks beautiful. Look at that.
And it has these dingies.
I think somebody mentioned this game as well to me. Pretty sure it is like in my shopping list somewhere.
Yes, it was pretty uh pretty well hyped going into the show.
Very heavy. Lots of things in here. H they are okay the box the bit day if you want to please grab it first. So this is by Brett Spiel podcast. So look at this. It's cute right? It made it home.
nice little 3D printed bit.
Which clicks together.
Clicks together. Hooray. Uh two more games. Well two more games that we can show. Oh yeah. I forgot about this. Whoops. There's a space lab. You would have seen the slideshow photo. Maybe you're not in the first part of essence build game. This is engine building game and it's very pretty. Like you want to Okay, it's shiny as well.
Happy.
Not as shiny as the other one.
Well, the in the inside's also shiny, Taran. Well, you can play a bit um a bit later if you like. Look. Shiny.
That is shiny.
Yeah, shiny. Anyways, trust me, it's shiny. So, this is by Studio H. And this is a kind of like yeah as I say uh engine not engine building but tile placement you're trying to meet objective in a different way and this is my fault chemist lookout games
now if you look back at the fortunes of scandal way it is a euro game but a euro game but looks like a marit
very uh very thematic looking art. Yes, that this one is um well, look at Games brought out things like Oh, we've got the Forest Shovel one as well, the D Mall, the new version, but I didn't get it from Essence Spiel. I got it from Gen Con. Uh and this one is the lookout games one. So, would be interesting um to to play like this looks like not a Euro game, right?
No, it looks like a battle card type of game. It's what I would generally imagine. I mean, it is to play two players.
So, and so the Marvel characters we have here, it's I don't recognize many of them. That's Iron Man. That's the Hulk.
That's all you know about Marvel. I'm the big fan of Marvel bigger.
I'm more of an I'm more of an X-Men.
That's actually true.
So, I would recognize X-Men of which those I'm not
which I will need to give you quiz. This is Hercules and the 12 labors. So this this is a solo game. This is uh the the publishers just got a few copies. So I got this from Essen
and that is Envy Born Games.
Yeah, it seems like a really fun uh solo game with with dice to dice to allocate to the cards.
There's not really a lot of explanations there. Sorry. This is Punikica which we talked about in the previous vlog which is a two-player battle game with card play.
Yes, Punic War game from Felank.
And over there we have Children of Coloss. This might have the most heft to it. This is Yes, it is quite heavy. Children of the Colossi which I also show in photos um that it's kind of like a there's a area control but also there's uh you want to send your work in here for your control. want to send it up there in the mountains to give you more powers. So that difficult decision.
Um they've got lots and lots of them but and by the end of essence spill I see that they almost none. So I don't know maybe they sold out as well.
And this is not new. I don't know if this is this year's release. I'm pretty sure this was kickstarted.
So they're very big this year though. Jaggi. Yes.
Yeah. And we also had a alternative rule to some of using some of the components for
It needs more love.
I'd rather it be damaged than not arrive at all.

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Video wk6YBpx7YUo Rahdo Runs Through Top List at 1:14:32 sentiment: positive

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Overall sentiment (raw)

Positive

Pros

Phenomenal game
Beautiful and charming art
Crunchy Euro style
Great engine building
Satisfying combos and strategy
Appeals to fans of Nanox Games' previous titles

Cons

Potential logistical challenges due to token limit

Thematic elements

Farming simulation
Rural

Comparison games

Evenfall
Cloud Age
Comet
Concordia

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

Card Drafting — We're going to draft card and play a card.
Engine Building — You can start building cool engine building combo chains that you can then activate on your market turns. ... This game has so much going on. It was so much more than I thought.
Hand Management — And each one of your locations has an objective to score. And so you're once you've played in a location card, you've got, okay, I want to play the right types of cards here. And you can only play so many. Most cards you can only play three cards, sometimes two, sometimes four.
Resource Management — The most valuable thing in this game is coins that you can spend as sunshine to say, "Oh, well, okay, I did as a level three. I didn't have any cards to sacrifice, but I paid three coins, so I could play this level three.
Set Collection — And so I'm trying to get the right employees, trying to put them in the right places. But I'm doing all of this through worker placement. ... But um now that means, okay, I'm going to ultimately try and play all three cards here so I can get the most out of this location, but I've got to get this combination of cards played here. And that's where the other types of cards, the elements that we are drafting for come in.
Worker Placement — But I'm doing all of this through worker placement. Um, at the beginning of the game, I've got a few worker placement action. I've got four workers.

Video topics + discussion points

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Quotes (from this video)

And countryside is a freaking phenomenal.
This is one of the best engine building games I have played this year.
It is very likely going to make it into my top 10 games of the year. It is that good.
My number three of the month is Rising Cultures.
Number two is Druids of Adora.
It's classic feld, making a comeback.
Number one, Furnish Duel.
A game that will not be coming out until 2026 will very likely make it into my top 10 games of 2026.

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Video 0hN7txGkJCk Meeple University Review at 4:32 sentiment: positive

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Overall sentiment (raw)

positive

Pros

Cozy theme
Warm pastel feel
Chaining card effects
Goals feed into better actions

Cons

Doesn't necessarily do that much that's new
Barrier to entry with similar-looking icons

Thematic elements

Countryside activities
Countryside

Comparison games

Oh My Goods
Through the Ages

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

Action Escalation — Completing goals unlocks better or more actions. The host explains "once you clear these goal markers off, you've got better actions."
Card Drafting — Players take chunks of cards from a display. The host mentions "you've got a tableau of seven cards here. And you're always taking in chunks."
Goal Fulfillment — Points are scored by completing various goals. The host states "Most of your points are going to come from resolving goals."
Tableau Building — Players build a tableau of cards in front of them. The host states "This is fundamentally a tableau building game."
Worker Placement — Players use meeples to take unblocked actions. The host describes it as having "a personal worker placement kind of puzzle to it."

Video topics + discussion points

No key topics recorded for this video.

Quotes (from this video)

Cozy games, well, autumn is coming here in Australia or spring in America if you are there.
So, now we're talking about four games that I would considered cozy games and I'll we will tell you why they are cozy in a way.
Yeah, they're cozy themed games. This is a rapid fire review video. We're going to give you a quick review for each of these four games that we've played over the recent time.
It is cozy. It is tile placement. It is cozy.
Very cozy.
It's really cozy theme. It's still cozy as well until somebody took the cards that you want, took the goals that you want, and then no longer cozy. No, it's still cozy.
It does feel cozy. Obviously, it's got a very warm pastel feel to it, and that's the that's the coziest thing of all here.
And both are cozy. What could be cozier than a garden lake?
It's still cozy and it is to do with socks. Wind socks to be exact.
Yes, what could be more cozy than watching wind socks fluttering in the breeze?
So, technically it is cozy but it could be a little bit brutal as well at the end.

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Video 6a6IT_Vz7gk Unknown Channel Playthrough at 0:00 sentiment: positive

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Overall sentiment (raw)

positive

Pros

Deluxe components and appealing visual design
Modular expansions provide replayability and variety
Engaging drafting and spatial reasoning
Accessible yet strategic once learned

Cons

Complex rules with many expansions; potential learning curve
Can be fiddly with large component setup and storage

Thematic elements

land development, transportation networks, and interlocking economies
rural countryside with farms, pastures, trains, towns
tile-drafting strategy with a focus on connecting pastures, towns, and transport hubs

Comparison games

Mansions of Madness
Eldritch Horror
Railroad Inc.
Nana
Can't Stop
Hanabi
My Father's Work

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

expansion tiles and scoring rules — expansions add new scoring conditions (airports, swamp, vineyard, etc.) and alter layout strategies.
interlocking networks (rails/roads) — points for connecting rails and roads; stations can modify scoring interactions.
Network/Route Building — points for connecting rails and roads; stations can modify scoring interactions.
point max/min rules — scoring is capped by round-based mechanics and there are penalties for unused exits.
Resource Management — animals placed in barns contribute points; barns constrain placement.
resource/animal management — animals placed in barns contribute points; barns constrain placement.
special tiles and symbols — special pieces (stars, red pawns, etc.) influence placement and scoring.
tile drafting — players draft from visible tiles (base and expansions) to place on their boards.
tile placement and spatial scoring — tiles create farms, towns, and transport networks; points scored for connectivity and patterns.

Video topics + discussion points

No key topics recorded for this video.

Quotes (from this video)

This game really clicked my brain.
I love Countryside.
The components are so good. Everything is just so deluxe.
I like the visual of the big grid.
I really like Countryside, though.

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Video MdBFhSQEyz4 Unknown Channel Playthrough at 0:09 sentiment: mixed

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Overall sentiment (raw)

mixed

Pros

Strong thematic integration between actions and market effects
Rich card synergy (rooster, bees, cows, trees, grapes, etc.)
High replayability due to variable goals and market setups

Cons

Early bread-focused pathways can mislead decisions
Solo mode can feel time-pressure heavy and complex
End-game scoring density may be challenging to optimize in a single session

Thematic elements

Small-scale farming, crop production, and market trading
Farm countryside with fields, barns, a house, greenhouse, and a market; a smallholding farm setting
Card-driven resource management with thematic triggers (rooster, bees, trees, etc.)

Comparison games

none

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

Card activation and reactivation — Area cards grant ongoing effects; cards can be reactivated to trigger additional actions, increasing synergy between cards.
Card-driven resource conversion & market — Goods can be converted into coins, coins into new goods; an open market with adjacency rules is refreshed periodically.
End-of-day & market refresh — End-of-day actions reset workers and refresh the market; in solo mode, the market depletion creates a time pressure to finish goals before stacks run out.
Set Collection — Players collect goods to meet goal cards for points; some goals require specific combinations or locations.
Set collection & goals — Players collect goods to meet goal cards for points; some goals require specific combinations or locations.
Worker Placement — Players assign workers to actions to gain resources and trigger effects on the board.

Video topics + discussion points

No key topics recorded for this video.

Quotes (from this video)

I think it's very clever how all the cards like work together.
The solo of this is really fun. It's the same as the multiplayer and even a bit crunchier.
I love how thematic it is.
This is not a great play through.
I really enjoyed this game.
It's replayable for me because there's so many things you can try to focus on.

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