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Shugendo

Game ID: GID0453797
Game Info
Year
2026
Players
2-4
Age
14+
Playtime
55 min
Complexity
2.5/5
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Description

A press-your-luck deck-building game where players expand their family farm into settlements while managing yokai spirits that dwell in the wilderness

Description

A press-your-luck deck-building game where players expand their family farm into settlements while managing yokai spirits that dwell in the wilderness

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Video -_8j_z_uLH0 Board Stupid Top List at 12:21 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Features renowned designers
  • Great Veer production
  • Interesting press-your-luck mechanic
  • Similar to enjoyable games like Living Forest and Quacks
Cons
  • Potential for being too much of a multi-solitaire game.
Thematic elements
  • Farming the land
  • Japan
Comparison games
  • Agricola
  • Living Forest
  • Quacks
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • action selection — The number of revealed cards determines how many actions can be done, such as expanding the farm or getting resources.
  • Deck Building — Each game has their own deck of cards that can be improved by buying more cards and swapping them with weaker ones.
  • Push Your Luck — Picking up cards from the deck until you want to stop, but revealing too many of a certain symbol causes an explosion.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • This is the game of the show so far on the all the previews.
  • It's chaotic by in a very good way.
  • The new artwork is absolutely beautiful. I find like it looks unreal.
  • You are competing to create the best yearbook essentially.
  • Each one of the gods will have different powers, will have specific like asymmetric power.
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Video 6cJtF44o14w JestaThaRogue Top List at 2:26 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Sounds fun
Cons
  • No images or other information provided initially
  • Releasing at Essen, which the reviewer will not attend
Thematic elements
  • Players improve their decks by replacing weaker cards with more powerful ones, revealing cards until they stop or 'explode' by revealing too many Yo-kai icons.
Comparison games
  • Mystic Veil
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Deck construction — Players improve their decks by replacing weaker cards with more powerful ones.
  • Push Your Luck — Players reveal cards until they decide to stop or risk exploding.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • The goal of the game is to help the animals and guide them to safely back to their home after the animals have secretly snuck out the zoo at night and they're trying to find their way back.
  • In Shagendo, each player has their own personal deck of cards. During the game, you improve your deck by replacing your weaker started cards with more powerful settler cards.
  • Players take the role of forester is dedicated to sustainable forest management as a euro game focused on strategic action management.
  • Forester relies on a dual worker placement system in which players control a harvester and a manager each with distinct responsibilities.
  • First Giants is even though it's pretty much the same game, there's no text on the cards. It's just iconography which is going to be a lot easier to teach.
  • Players act as urban planners, building a sustainable transit network to connect riders to their destinations before the supply of tiles runs out.
  • what appealed to me is just it looks really cute and simple.
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