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Year
2026
Players
2-5
Age
10+
Playtime
60 min
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Description
The third standalone entry in the Forest Shuffle series set in the Great Smoky Mountains adding water terrain and large animals such as bears and bobcats.
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The Dice Tower Review at 1:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Visually much improved over previous versions.
- More diverse strategies and avenues for victory.
- Introduces new elements like rivers and fish for interesting gameplay.
- Faster game time compared to previous editions.
- Strong thematic integration of ecosystem building.
- Offers a good next step in complexity for those familiar with the base game.
Cons
- Scoring can be complex and requires calculation.
- Complexity has increased, which might be a slight barrier for new players.
- Dartmore might be overshadowed by this and the original Forest Shuffle.
Thematic elements
- Ecosystem building
- Smoky Mountains
Comparison games
- Forest Shuffle
- Forest Shuffle: Dartmore
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Players draw cards from a clearing or a draw deck.
- End-game scoring — The game ends when a specific card is drawn, triggering scoring based on placed cards and their synergies.
- Hand Management — Players manage cards in hand to pay costs and play cards.
- Set Collection — Cards have scoring abilities based on what is placed around them and in the player's cave.
- Tableau Building — Players play cards into their personal tableau.
- Variable player powers — Different card abilities provide unique actions and scoring opportunities.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This one looks vastly different than the other two.
- It does make for a vastly more vibrant and visually uh diverse game.
- This one, they set it in the uh the fall, the autumn is where most of the cards look like they're set, and it is gorgeous.
- It's a little more brain burning, which I kind of like.
- The scoring in this game is always tricky.
- This one is a 10. I love this version of it.
- This replaces for a shuffle for me.
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The Board Game Garden Review at 9:37 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Fun base game
- Excited to see changes in the new version
Cons
- Unsure of specific changes from the original
Thematic elements
- Smoky Mountains
Comparison games
- Forest Shuffle
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
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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Game Night Picks - Pair Of Dice Paradise Review at 9:28 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- expands on familiar gameplay
- introduces new species and mechanisms
- eco-friendly manufacturing
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- expanding a forest ecosystem, gathering species around water, large animals
- Smoky Mountains, North American National Park
Comparison games
- Forest Shuffle
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Familiar gameplay of drafting cards.
- Combo Building — Creating combos of trees, animals, insects, and shrubs.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- That's right. It is time for us to throw off the shackles of workaday life and become the greatest board game manufacturer that the world has ever seen.
- The Game Makers is, in many ways, a love letter to the board gaming industry.
- players continue the journey started in Cascadia to create the most diverse Pacific Northwest environment that they can by drafting new double-hexagon habitat tiles and wildlife tokens to expand their landscape outward and also, get ready for it, ready? Here we go. Upward.
- where we find that the local zoo has broken into chaos. All the animals have escaped and now they need us to help them back to their respective homes.
- a single player card and dice game where the legendary hero strives to ascend into godhood.
- where the courageous new owner of a magical inn builds their bewitching B&B to best suit an eccentric host of guests, while also cultivating the ivy that's covering the walls.
- Now, Entropy is a big old rondel-powered universe-building Eurogame where scientists bend creation to their will as they create a brand new solar system, coax stars to life, and fuel new biomes all towards the ultimate goal of seeding planets with life.
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Tantrum House Top List at 20:10 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
- Stand-alone game
- New mechanics like water elements
- Features native animals like black bears and bobcats
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Nature, ecosystems, local environment
- Smoky Mountains, Tennessee
Comparison games
- Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Implied by the nature of Forest Shuffle and expansions.
- Engine Building — New synergies between flora and fauna suggest engine building.
- Set Collection — Collecting species and types of flora/fauna.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- All right. Number four, we've got Cano from Mad to Go for two to four players. Takes about 30 minutes to play. I like games about art and this one has that creating Japanese painted scrolls in the game.
- but the art is what sort of really drew me in.
- you're trying to make patterns when you put them on your board to lay tiles. It did look interesting.
- I have Night at the Zoo. This is another tiling game. I love laying tiles.
- really interesting it's designed The designer is the same person who did Sagrada and Aquatica, which are heavy Euro games, but this is a lighter tiling game.
- I thought it was a fun theme.
- So, I'm anticipating Pulitzer from 25th Century Games, and this is an investigative journalist themed game. I was a journalism major in college, so I'm always interested in these themed games.
- With strings that you're I don't know exactly how it all it but it just looks really cool and interesting being able to put your strings from the different pieces of evidence you've found. tactile
- So, if nothing else, the theme and the components have definitely made me interested in this game.
- We've got Lord of the Rings: Circle of Conflict. I should say right off the start, it says this is an Essen release, but I believe they might have a limited copies available at Gen Con, so I'm going to call this a pre-Gen Con pre-release at Gen Con.
- My understanding is you're playing against your two neighbors, the players to your left and right. So, each person has a shadow troops and the free peoples army. And so, your shadow troops are playing against your neighbors free people, and your free people is playing against your other neighbors shadow troops.
- I believe this is a dice allocation game. So, rolling dice and then using them to do actions and powers and things like that.
- Lord of the Rings theme, which is a theme that we really enjoy.
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kovray Event Coverage at 12:19 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Super excited about this.
- Already loves it (played on BGA).
- Has more layers with new additions.
- Adds variety of strategies.
- Favorite cover art.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Forest Shuffle
- Dartmore
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Play — Features river cards with new abilities.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Which was Jinxo, which we brought brought to UK GE to play with people.
- It is one of the spiel de Jarus uh um nominees and we had not played it before.
- It is so much fun.
- We played it with three separate groups every time. We had plenty of laughs.
- This has hit one of our top party games.
- Jump Masters. This is a prototype copy, I believe, of a new game from Chip Theory Games. I actually don't know much about it, but I'm excited to try it out because Chip Theory produces some really high quality stuff.
- So, by limiting the amount of space you have in a suitcase, you can limit the num the amount of money and games you bring home.
- No, you have to. It has to be have six sides, but that's the only rule.
- I didn't follow that rule when making my die.
- Tyler made a ridiculous die because it's more fun that way. Don't try to make a regular dye.
- Paddington, UKG was pretty amazing and honestly just the people along the way.
- Not to not to be dramatic, but I think I would die for Paddington.
- We saw the musical, not just the bear. We saw Paddington the musical, which was 10 out of 10.
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