Game Info
Year
2026
Players
1-4
Age
10+
Playtime
30 min
Complexity
1.4/5
Collection
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Description
A light tile-placement puzzle where players plant magical gardens by placing plant pairs in mirror-opposite sunlight and moonlight positions
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The Board Game Garden Review at 23:39 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Really enjoyed
- Absolutely loved it
- One of my top games for the month of June
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Tile Placement — This is a tile placement game.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Realm of Reckoning is fantastic.
- The moment that I heard that one of the mechanisms is close drafting, immediately I was like, yes, let's play this.
- You are building up a tableau and then you are scoring in different ways based off of the game and what people decide to score and yeah just such a cool game.
- Recommend uh Realm of Reckoning.
- This is a tile placement game that I played in Edmonton that I really enjoyed.
- Absolutely loved it.
- One of my top games for the month of June.
- This is another tableau building, hand management game that I absolutely loved as well and was quite a big surprise to me that I enjoyed it as much as I did.
- Gen Con is officially 2 weeks away when I am filming this.
- If you guys are going to Gen Con and you see me wandering the halls, definitely come up and say hello.
- I'd love to meet you.
- I've been very, very excited for that part of Gen Con.
- I am just overall very excited to get back to Gen Con this year.
- I am very, very excited for that part of Gen Con.
- I've been recently getting more into the Pokemon TCG, and honestly, just TCGs in general.
- I'm really wanting to get back into Magic, Pokemon, TCG, Lorana as well.
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Before You Play Rules Teach at 0:03 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Simple turn structure that is easy to learn.
- Simultaneous tile placement reduces downtime.
- The mirrored gardens add an interesting strategic element.
- Multiple scoring opportunities through plant configurations and potions.
Cons
- The game can feel tight, requiring careful planning to avoid blocking scoring opportunities.
- Misplacing a tile can lead to forfeiting points.
- Balancing garden configurations and potion brewing can be challenging.
Thematic elements
- alchemists tending to gardens, planting, and brewing potions
- gardens
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Players select tiles based on how they orient a card, which determines which tiles they and other players receive.
- Hand Management — Players manage a hand of plant cards, each offering different tile combinations.
- Pattern Building — The scoring of many plants relies on specific spatial arrangements and patterns of tiles on the player's board.
- Set Collection — Players aim to create sets of specific plant types in certain configurations to score points and brew potions.
- tile laying — Players place plant tiles onto their garden boards.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- So, I'm going to orient it like this, which means I basically get one of each of the two types that I already have.
- If I have something like this where I have exactly five tiles in its grouping, this will only score me three points because only three of the tiles are along the perimeter.
- As a turn, you can plant a tile from the active player side and a tile from the everyone else side of the draft board.
- This is not good for me because I definitely want to put this here you know. So that I would be trapped.
- The mandrekes weren't coming and now I have one.
- These flowers are useless. All these flowers are so useless.
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Rahdo Runs Through Top List at 25:26 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Innovative and elegant design.
- Unique mirroring mechanic.
- Satisfying brain-burning puzzles.
- Beautiful artwork and table presence.
- Simple mechanics that lead to complex decisions.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Alchemists growing plants.
- Magical forest
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Drafting — Players draft cards with plant types, creating a trade-off between active player and others.
- Pattern Building — Players aim to create specific orientations and connections for their plants to score points.
- tile laying — Players place hexagonal tiles representing plants.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- it's being sort of talked about like the Splendor killer.
- This is really gorgeous art. It looks really thoughtful, really um really beautifully crafted um with a similar sort of Splender style gameplay.
- you can't talk to each other about the cards you have.
- Specific player count games, are always very interesting to me because it's a big swing for a publisher to publish a threeplayeron game is a risk.
- Phantom Inc., full disclosure, is a game that I did work on. Uh, it is my favorite of the team-based party word games. I think it is a phenomenal game.
- So, it's a really neat push your luck game. What the really cool twist is if you have an odd number of fruit in your hand up to five, you can you must sell all of them.
- It's got dinos, so I think it's going to be a really good seller uh for um I think it's three three WS games.
- I have I have everything wingspan and it's too much. It's objectively too much.
- Hard. Not interested. Three boxes to play one game. No.
- Michelle and I have played Ma Jong every night for the last two weeks. It's been incredible.
- it's a meaningful game beyond just a surface level, right? So, it's very cool to see younger generations getting back into it to keep that tradition alive.
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The Dice Tower Unboxing at 5:57 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
none
Cons
none
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)
- Hey everybody, I'm Tom Vassal. Welcome to the most boring unboxings on the planet Earth as we open up stuff that comes into the Dice Tower and see what it is.
- My word, are we ever going to quit with the games that start with EV?
- And there we go, folks. Another most boring unboxing in the world.
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The Brothers Murph Review at 0:32 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Close game that was more competitive than expected.
- Engaging tile-laying and set collection mechanics.
- Potions add flexibility and strategic options.
Cons
- Can be difficult to manage the mirrored board effectively.
- Players can get in their own way due to the complexity of tile placement.
Thematic elements
- Mirroring gardens
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — On a turn, players play a plant card, gain tiles, and then place two tiles into mirrored spaces.
- Hand Management — Players play plant cards from their hand to gain tiles and take actions.
- Pattern Building — Certain scoring conditions require tiles to be connected in specific ways or shapes (e.g., lines of mandrakes, groups of flowers).
- Resource Management (Potions) — Potions can be used to swap tiles, replace tiles, or gain flexibility in drafting.
- Set Collection — Players aim to create groups of specific tile types (flowers, herbs, mushrooms, vines, leaves) to score points.
- tile laying — Players place tiles into designated spaces on a mirrored board.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Everyone's like, I want to go back to the past. No, you don't.
- The Disc Man you had to be like this. Don't even don't even breathe on it.
- My garden's coming together so nice. Mine is I love it. Mine exists.
- This is the one where you can plant a tower from the active side and then the other side as well.
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kovray Top List at 8:45 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Clever design
- Wanted to play again immediately
- Foamy squishy tiles
- Lot of variability
- A lot of fun
- Quick to play
- Easy to get to the table
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Creating mirrored patterns with ingredients.
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Mirroring — Tiles must be mirrored on the player's board.
- Simultaneous Play — Players take turns simultaneously.
- Tile Placement — Players place tiles on their board.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is a game we introduced to my parents, thinking that they would like it, and they ended up liking it.
- Now, we recently got back from UKGE, and Not back. We we recently just finished UKGE.
- This is a recap for the top games of May.
- in the month of May, we have played 31 different games.
- I think you did, too. I was looking at it, and cuz there was a few that I think we just rushed at the convention that I forgot to log.
- This is a good reminder that if you
- This game really caught my eye at our preview night that we were at, and it's essentially just these beautiful flower cards
- It's super simple, super easy to play, but I have really enjoyed just like the simplicity of that and it's beautiful. Small box, beautiful game.
- It was so beautiful that we were so immersed in it I forgot to take a lot of b-roll and it's my number two.
- That hasn't happened in a while. It has not, I don't think.
- And this game is a game that we do not have, but we recently got a 3D printer and the whole point was so that I could make like well, 3D prints. But part of that is inserts, board game inserts.
- it was fantastic.
- The really cool aspect of this game though is the timing of everything that you do.
- resources are very tight in this game. So, that's the other thing is you have to be very clever with how you use everything.
- I'll allow it. It was very fun.
- It's definitely more layered. It's more layered than Suburbia. Yeah. Yeah.
- Like Sweet Land's is much more complicated.
- which has been hopping up because it was nominated for the Kennerspiel. I think it's number one on the BGG hotness right now.
- Which it very very much so deserves because it is a fantastic game.
- Do not get scammed. Be aware.
- what have you been playing this uh past month? What have you really enjoyed? What was your favorite? What games are you hoping to get to the table this month?
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Watch It Played Rules Teach at 0:13 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Scoring rules for plants are summarized on the bottom of the player board.
- Potions allow for manipulation of tiles in the garden.
- Game includes family and solo variants.
Cons
- Potions can never move tiles that are locked (part of a group that gained a potion and has a harvest token).
- If a required plant runs out, players collect in turn order until the supply is depleted, and those who don't get a plant take any other type.
Thematic elements
- Harnessing the power of the sun and moon to grow mystical plants
- Even glow forest
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action Point Allowance — Players have a limited number of actions on their turn, with a key action being the use of one potion.
- Drafting — Players draft plant cards from a central board, which then influences the tiles available to them and other players.
- Hand Management — Players manage their hand of plant cards, which dictates which tiles they can collect on their turn.
- Potion Use — Players can use potions to perform special actions like swapping or replacing tiles in their garden.
- Set Collection — Players score points by creating specific sets of connected plant tiles of exact sizes and configurations (e.g., exactly three lion's mane in a triangle, exactly four mandrakes in a line).
- Tile Placement — Players place collected plant tiles onto their garden boards in specific numbered spaces, on either the moonlight or sunlight side, with rotation being a key factor.
- variable scoring — Scoring is based on the final arrangement of tiles in the garden, with different plant types having unique scoring conditions.
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- As an experienced alchemist, you're no stranger to growing weird and wondrous plants.
- The ones you'll find in the even glow forest require particular care, forcing you to harness both the power of the sun and the moon.
- Anytime you're placing a pair of tiles, you must pick one of them to go into an empty space on the moonlight side, rotated in any way you like, and then the other one must go into the same numbered space on the sunlight side, also rotated as you like.
- When you use the tincture of transmutation, pick any unlocked tile on your board and replace it with any tile from the supply.
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kovray Rules Teach at 0:05 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Satisfying puzzle aspect due to mirrored placements.
- Strategic depth in tile placement and planning.
- Variety in scoring conditions for different plant types.
- Potions offer one-time abilities and bonus points for set collection.
Cons
- Scoring can be missed if the exact amount of tiles required is not met.
- Harvested potion formations are locked and cannot be moved or replaced.
Thematic elements
- alchemist tending your garden
- mysterious grove
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Players select plant cards from a draft board, determining which tiles they and others will place.
- Pattern Building — Players arrange plant tiles to create specific patterns and groups to score points based on scoring conditions for each plant type.
- Set Collection — Players collect potion cards by forming specific sets of plant tiles, which provide points and special abilities.
- Tile Placement — Players place plant tiles onto their garden boards, with mirrored placements in both sunlight and moonlight gardens.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Hello everybody, my name is Zulia.
- And my name is Tyler. Together we make up Calvert, a couple that loves to play board games.
- And today we'll be teaching you how to play Even Glow.
- You're now ready to play. In Even Glow, you'll take on the role of an alchemist tending your garden in the mysterious grove.
- Every placement is mirrored between your two gardens, creating a satisfying puzzle as you try to make the most out of every tile.
- And that's Eating Gloomhaven. Do you have any questions?
- Tell us about a symmetry that exists in your life.
- Until next time, though, we will see you later.
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kovray Rules Teach at 0:36 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Potions provide useful abilities to manipulate the board.
- The game has interesting decisions and requires different thinking.
- The mechanics encourage players to consider both their own board and their opponent's.
Cons
- The mirroring mechanic can be difficult to keep track of.
- Playing quickly can lead to mistakes in placement.
- Vine scoring can feel like it 'ruins' other placements.
Thematic elements
- alchemy, maximizing plant placement to harness energy and score points
- gardens
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action/Ability Cards — Potions grant special abilities that can manipulate tiles on the board.
- Drafting — Players select tiles, with some tiles being passed to opponents.
- Hand Management — Players draw and play cards that dictate tile selection and placement.
- Pattern Building — Players aim to create specific patterns or groups of tiles (vines, pairs, sets of three, four, or five) to score points.
- Set Collection — Collecting specific types of tiles or combinations of tiles (like potions) for scoring.
- Set-up/Starting Bonuses — Players receive specific starting tiles based on game setup.
- Tile Placement — Players select and place various plant tiles onto their garden boards.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Mistakes were made.
- The mirroring sometimes breaks my brain.
- We're alchemists and we're trying to make sure that we maximize our placement of all of the different plants so we can harness as much energy and score the most points.
- The potions are pretty handy because they allow you to manipulate some of your board and potentially even swap tiles, which is really handy.
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The Board Game Garden Discussion at 21:09 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Incredibly satisfying tile placement
- Beautiful game
- Satisfying and cool tiles
- Puzzly and loved it
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- gardens
Comparison games
- Fountains
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Players draft cards that provide ingredients for tile placement.
- Pattern Building — Players arrange tiles in specific configurations to score points.
- Tile Placement — Players place tiles to build gardens.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Hey friends, it is Jenna. What is up?
- And welcome back to the board game garden.
- June ended up being a very board game-filled month.
- I still can't get over the fact that we're still playing trick- taking games that are completely different than all other trick- taking games, but I feel like overall the base game of trick taking works really well with being changed and manipulated in different ways.
- Oh my goodness, this thing broke me.
- Remember, you are somebody's reason to smile.
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