Game Info
Year
2026
Players
2-4
Age
10+
Playtime
30 min
Publisher
Repos Production
Complexity
2/5
Collection
Ratings
Creator Score
Mechanic profile
Waiting on more creator content
Vibe profile
Waiting on more creator content
Description
Ancient druids gather secret ingredients and combine mystical runes to brew the most powerful potion
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BoardGameCo Top List at 1:02 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
none
Cons
- There's just better games out there, especially ones that do point scoring combination.
Thematic elements
- Gathering cards by manipulating runes
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — Using limited actions to get the right runes to get the right cards.
- Set Collection — Collecting cards based on symbols and scoring combinations.
- Tableau Building — Collecting runes onto your personal tableau.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- When you don't have 20 minutes to watch a full review and you're not looking for a how to play or an hour-long play-through and let's be honest when the interest is a little lower, too.
- A game should stand on its own.
- I try not to let the ecosystem of games color my reviews, but inherently enough knowledge and experience will affect like if this is the first game I've ever played getting into board games, this would have been a 4.5 out of five.
- But honestly, I think its biggest criticism is there's just better games out there, especially ones that do point scoring combination.
- Overall, I I found Pies to be in this weird place where the actual trick is almost more multiplayer solitaire uh rather than a trick-taking game.
- The premise of setting up the player to your left, I really like that idea.
- The puzzle of timing the melds is the thing that combined with the abilities is the thing that hooks me on this.
- It's a clever puzzle, but one with a limited amount of place to it in my opinion.
- There is an interesting tension to the game because of the fact that the cards enter your tableau first.
- It is the most common rating I have on this channel.
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BoardGameCo Other at 21:01 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
- Rune mana management is arguably interesting
Cons
- Doesn't shine
- Lacks a compelling hook
- Rune flipping puzzle not engaging
Thematic elements
- null
- null
- null
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Resource Management — The hook was probably the rune mana management, which is arguably a little interesting cuz like flipping runes is better than getting of them
- rune flipping — Carnuta is a rune-flipping game of well, flipping runes to gather cards.
- Set Collection — Then you get the cards that work well with other cards.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Wingspan Pocket. This is charming. I like Wingspan Pocket better than I like Wingspan.
- I don't care about the cards. I don't care about the world building. I don't care about the cards. I've said this time and time again.
- All In Productions for me is an absolute miss.
- This is basically Rococo but not as much fun as Rococo. That's kind of the
- It's a good game, not a great game.
- And why would I ever play this over Pirates of Maracaibo?
- I would never ever ever suggest this over Pirates of Maracaibo.
- Rebuilding Seattle, which is great.
- This is the best game I'm getting rid of, in my opinion.
- I think it's phenomenal. I just think Rebuilding Chicago is slightly better.
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Tabletop Tolson Unboxing at 12:46 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- looks really really cool
Cons
- haven't played yet
Thematic elements
- combining ingredients
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- So, it's just it's lovely. I love Columbus.
- And the tabletop role-playing game I use, because I want to get into tabletop role-playing games more, is called Epitaph.
- This is a really dynamite game.
- I have plenty of copies of Things in Rings, which I already have used in the classroom, and many people were introduced to.
- It takes this and it just makes it more research-based, and it really does essentially shift the focus to an educational setting.
- So, I left with over 20 games, and I had to essentially check my bag.
- Um and I think this is a dynamite game.
- Um, we love Panda Royale. We have shared that with people.
- I love the pity die. That's like the best feature of this game.
- So, I'm probably going to have like a little double uh double header with these two uh review coming up soon.
- And the really fun thing about Wizard Community College is you are all kind of like trainee uh wizards and things don't go right.
- So, I'm excited to get this in my in my classroom and uh hopefully with a little bit more uh of a video with that one soon.
- So, it is always action. You are always playing, you're always thinking and um it's just really cool.
- So, for me, I was like, 'Got to take home Soothsayers.'
- I got me a nice train game. I love a good train game.
- This is like classic train game stuff, man.
- Artwork looks amazing, honestly.
- Oh my goodness. Okay, here we go.
- My number one game that I demoed at the media event for Asmodee is called The Happiest Cat in the World.
- It's like a deck builder but with tiles, but then you're spending them.
- Now the cool thing about this one is you're in two different factions.
- I am into all the duels. I want to try all the duels for every game that they have out there, or duets, or whatever, or duos. I want to play them.
- I had a fantastic time. I had a delicious time.
- I love the mood. I love the energy. I love the games. I love the people. I love gamers. I love gamers so much.
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Grant Lyon News at 12:22 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- filler strategy game
- interesting choices
- plays quickly
- easy to teach
- finding combos is key
- different resource management twist
- cool artwork
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — You will be selecting cards and adding cards to sets in front of you.
- Resource management (sun/moon tokens) — You will have these sun and moon tokens and cards will have different costs of sun and moons. Uh and you have a finite amount of spaces to keep those resources. But a card doesn't necessarily just ask you to discard a sun or a moon. Sometimes it asks asks you to flip them
- Set Collection — all the cards are going to score you in in different ways, in different points. This card is going to score you four points for every combination of berry and clover that you have.
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- Cats Versus Cucumbers. Uh, this plays two to five players in 15 to 30 minutes and it is a lightweight game.
- A lot of the fun of this game is in the theme, right? You're trying to get different cats to put cats in boxes and that's going to score you points, but cucumbers, you can't reroll and they're going to scare your cat away, you know, because cats get scared of cucumbers.
- wombats uh poop square cubes.
- This is a they describe it as a bluffing game for two players, which intrigues me because I think bluffing games are oftentimes, you know, reserved for higher player counts.
- This is not a game about winning or losing or beating your partner. This is a game about getting closer to your partner.
- Uh, I've played Sea Scroll. Uh, some one, the art is awesome.
- this is a really quick playing game card game that like surprised me. I've really enjoyed my plays of Sea Scroll.
- It is a cooperative survival game, a campaign game that has a lot of different con content, a lot of different exploration.
- Soros is a pretty unique trick taking game because you're not doing trick taking with cards. You're doing them with these big chunky tiles They're kind of like domino tiles.
- looks really cool on the table. The table presence of hummingbirds is great
- which I love the title of that.
- This is a
- This is a dexterity style game.
- And it comes with those big emotional moments where you're like, 'Oh, no, it bounced off.' You know, or yes, it felt so good that it landed on there.
- Last Lantern was uh in my top five cooperative games of last year.
- And the cooperative polyomino is a thing I haven't seen before.
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Get into games Top 10 List at 1:08:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Storyteller March of the Damned is available on Kickstarter from 12:00 p.m. on the 31st of March, UK time, or 7:00 a.m. Eastern, 4:00 a.m. Pacific for those listening in the US.
- Concordia is just fantastic. And I recommend that everyone plays it.
- It's a dry Euro set in Italy.
- Plug it into your veins. Play it. You'll enjoy it because you're used to the mechanics of it.
- It's the most beautiful game I've ever played or owned.
- Be discerning about what games you keep; we're in a be more discerning era.
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Game Night Picks - Pair Of Dice Paradise Top 10 List at 0:37
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Pros
none
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none
Thematic elements
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Arkham Horror: The Card Game, which is Okay, this has been around for a decade, but recently the game has seemed to be on a campaign to reintroduce and revitalize itself with a revised core set, which introduces several quality-of-life improvements for ease of play, support for up to four players with just a single copy of the game instead of having to get multiple copies for four players, plus new player cards, new investigators and mechanisms, better organization for storage, and an improved rulebook while still remaining 100% compatible with all the game's previously published material, which there is a lot of.
- Mindbug is a two-player card battler where powerful creatures, replete with game-warping abilities, do battle, including the mindbugs themselves, which can be used to immediately take control of an opponent's creature.
- Nippon Zaibatsu is a fast-paced economic game that's full of challenging decisions for one to four players, set during a crucially important time in Japanese history when the empire sent emissaries to foreign nations to bring in technicians and scholars from the west to build and work on a network of railroads to power a rapid industrial revolution.
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BoardGameCo Top 10 List at 8:34 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
- Happily play it on BGA again.
Cons
- Didn't do anything particularly new in the genre.
- Nothing special about it.
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Point Salad
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Gathering cards and playing them to get symbols and score off symbols.
- Point Salad — Similar to Point Salad, but with its own spin.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- But you're basically gathering movies. That's what you're doing. You're kind of a you're taking a turn to either buy better seats for your theater or buying movies to play in your theaters.
- The first game on its own would have been like a 2.5, maybe a three. Without the cards that make the game interesting, it's a forgettable yatsi-ish game where you get one reroll, not two. It's an okay game. Nothing bad about it, just like it's been done before. The cards made it interesting. and the Cars made it fun.
- It's straightforward. It's straightforward. It's fine. I don't think again definitely didn't wow me. Like the more I talk about it, the more I'm like, I will never buy this game. Nothing against it. I just I think it's a fun enough game to play on boardame arena. I don't think it does anything particularly special to make it a game that I feel the need to own in my collection.
- Overall, you're going around a rondell. You're kind of working around this map. It's basically it's it's a rondelle, but it's a map. You move around the board. You stop at various locations. You place down your crew. You buy various cards. You engage in combat. It's kind of reminiscent to Pirates of Marbo, just less fun so far. It really feels like Pirates of Marabo is just a straightup better game
- It's just such a good game of just trying to figure out how to optimize.
- My most favorite game on this list is Darwin's Journey.
- It is not the easiest game to learn, but it's also not the hardest game to learn. one of my favorite games of all time. Incredible game. Absolutely amazing.
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Board Game Animal Analysis at 11:17
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Pros
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Thematic elements
none
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This iceberg in and of itself is maybe, in fact, the tip of an even bigger iceberg.
- What's great about all of them is you just need some traditional sets of dominoes.
- Because they have two big big things. What are those two things? Well, the aforementioned concept of the numbers, orientation, and all that, but also the physical component, the delectable clicketity clack, that tactile nature.
- I already know that dominoes make games better from a physical standpoint.
- The game is just so satisfying when playing with the dominoes in their true clicketity clacky forms.
- It was so funny to have that revelation, that realization that wait a minute, I like that in games and Domino's are just already bringing that to the table.
- That means dominoes have been hiding in the games you've been playing and you didn't even know it.
- I think dominoes need to be given a little love.
- you can get a Domino set or two anywhere. And for a few dollars, you're opening yourself up to a tremendous world of gaming that is just hidden right there beneath the surface.
- Dominoes really are infectious, and I have put out two domino designs now on Board Gamegeeek.
- Dominoes make games better. Yeah. Yeah.
- I've fallen for it. I've fallen for the delightful sounds of the clicketity clacky.
- I'm buried in bones.
- If you have any questions, comments, or want to discuss any of the games mentioned here, please, please do.
- get yourself some dominoes, fall down the rabbit hole, and don't forget to play board games.
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BoardGameCo Unboxing at 9:16 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Cute little game.
- Not bad.
Cons
- Not overly impressed.
- Doesn't stand out among other games.
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Players collect cards by gathering and flipping tokens.
- Set Collection — Players aim for point-scoring combinations based on collected cards and tokens (e.g., skulls scoring off mushrooms).
- token flipping — Involves manipulating tokens to achieve goals.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This is uh probably my favorite from the three new All Play games.
- Kabuto Sumo Dice is basically Strike with the Kabuto Sumo theme.
- it was quick, it was snappy, it was a fun game of just chucking dice and then trying to be the one who wins.
- It's not going to win any awards for highest deepest strategy, but if you've played games like that like Strike, then you'll enjoy and appreciate the general chaotic and craziness of it.
- Bunny Kingdom Town is a two-player version of Bunny Kingdom which my kids are currently obsessed with and so I am very happy to have this.
- it doesn't feel like it's a Bunny Kingdom game. So, for better for worse, I don't know if it's going to feel like a Bunny Kingdom game.
- Sometimes a two-player game can be really really good. Other times it's just a way of selling another version of a game you already own. That might be this, and um it worked.
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The Board Game Garden Discussion at 23:38 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Engaging set collection mechanic
- Innovative sun/moon resource flip
- Approachable for casual play
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- The Wolves
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- resource flipping — Sun and moon resources flip sides when used, altering future scoring opportunities.
- Set Collection — Players collect cards/resources to score points.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- It's packs unplug time, baby.
- Hello Friends, what is up? Welcome to the first day of packs.
- Barcelona from Board and Dice, which I freaking love that game.
- I love Let's Go to Japan.
- Mountain Goats Legacy is absolutely wild and makes the game so much more engaging.
- Lets Go to France is very fun.
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The Dice Tower Week In Review at 2:10 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- lovely components
- welcoming, easy to pick up
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- It is an excellent production. It is everything you've come to maybe know and love about Neuroshima Hex.
- Outstanding, man. I love this trick-T game that also includes set collection.
- Disappointing. This is basically Forbidden Island, the card game with too few spaces and a little too much swinginess.
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Board Game Hangover Top 12 List at 15:06 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- beautiful components
- simple to learn yet offers meaningful decisions
- quick play with family-friendly appeal
Cons
- rules can feel intuitive but some players may want clearer examples
- tile flipping adds a bit of randomness
Thematic elements
- butterflies, eggs, and sun/moon tiles influence card scoring
- card-flip-driven collection within a fauna-themed world
- lightweight, family-friendly with tactical tile-flipping decisions
Comparison games
- Spirited
- Speak Easy
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card-driven scoring — cards determine scoring conditions and flip effects to access points.
- Compound Scoring — cards determine scoring conditions and flip effects to access points.
- flip-tile manipulation — flip sun or moon tiles to change what cards reward.
- Set collection for scoring — collect cards with certain symbols to maximize butterfly-card synergies.
- Tile/Map Shifting — flip sun or moon tiles to change what cards reward.
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is the most colorful area control game that you will be able to find anywhere.
- We love those, but this time it didn't click.
- This is a space game, but a weird one.
- It's the hands down the best racing game ever.
- This is the most thematical trick taking game ever made.
- The artwork is gorgeous. It’s one of those games that looks amazing on the table.
- I haven't played it; I hope it has more content in the update.
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