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Harmonies: Crescendo

Game ID: GID0453598
Game Info
Year
2026
Players
1-4
Age
10+
Playtime
30 min
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Description

An expansion for Harmonies adding Sanctuaries that host multiple animals plus new personal player boards and Whisper Creatures creating new synergies

Description

An expansion for Harmonies adding Sanctuaries that host multiple animals plus new personal player boards and Whisper Creatures creating new synergies

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Sentiment: pos 2 · mix 0 · neu 1 · neg 0
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Video OiFpbqhe1u4 The Board Game Garden Other at 7:57 sentiment: neutral
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neutral
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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  • Remember, you are somebody's reason to smile.
  • I love you guys so so much.
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Video oY75qdEK5UI BoardGameCo Review at 3:38:24 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Likes the art and style.
Cons
  • Not a lot of information publicly around this yet.
Thematic elements
  • enriching habitats with small natural beings
Comparison games
  • Harmonies
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Area Building — build unique landscapes
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • Hey, I'm Alex Rack from Board Game Co.
  • And this is News and Weekend Review, where we go over a variety of news pieces, the videos of the week, the games I've played, the uh games we've covered, all of that and more.
  • So, if you want to see the games I'm excited about at Origins Game Fair, we'll be figuring that out together.
  • I say it together because I haven't actually done any research on this.
  • I am fighting against a cat meowing in the background.
  • What's the person to do?
  • Everyone has the thing that works for them.
  • Now that we've learned way too much about what I do to deal with headaches, let's go ahead and talk about the news and weekend review.
  • The biggest thing is sail south for the Isle of Penguins.
  • I am very excited for this one.
  • Anything for new for Harmonies I am intrigued and excited for.
  • Harmony is a fantastic game.
  • I like the art. I like the art. I like the style.
  • It doesn't tell me a lot about the actual gameplay.
  • So, I I am intrigued to see how that's actually going to play out, but it's going to come with new protected area boards,
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Video xy44u3NO1Ew Discussion at 18:11 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Adds new modules to enhance the base game.
  • Provides more engine-building opportunities.
  • Expands on a highly-rated game (top 100).
Cons
  • Taken a while for an expansion to be released.
  • Pulse expansion is smaller and adds more difficult animal cards.
Thematic elements
Comparison games
  • Harmonies
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Card Play — New animal cards (whisper creatures) add synergy.
  • Modular gameplay — Introduces three modules (new field boards, whisper creatures/cards, sanctuaries/landscape cards) that can be combined.
  • Tableau Building — Animal cards go into sanctuaries to enhance engine building.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • I really enjoy a the production of this game is incredible.
  • There's a really great kind of tableau build if you're into like Arc Nova, that kind of, you know, you're building out multiple cards with different tags.
  • It's really, really fun. I enjoy it every time. I do something different every time.
  • My best month is going to be Lords of Water Deep.
  • This game is great. like this game is genuinely just like really solid.
  • One of the first kind of big worker placement games. It wasn't the first worker placement game, but kind of one of the ones that put that kind of mechanic on the map,
  • It's just good. It's just clean. It doesn't do anything fancy.
  • It is really kind of straight up contract fulfillment.
  • It's easy to teach.
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