Game Info
Year
2026
Players
1-4
Age
8+
Playtime
20 min
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Description
A Reiner Knizia jungle expedition game where players navigate rainforest paths collecting treasures while exploring for a lost temple
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BoardGameGeek Playthrough at 3:29 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Fun race game
- Cute dinosaur art
- Good artwork
- Neat mechanics
- Streamlined looking
- Good for families
Cons
- Takes longer to set up than to play
- Can be disappointing (Steggy)
- Some cards don't cooperate
- Luck of the draw can be frustrating
Thematic elements
- Discovering ancient artifacts and exploring temples
- Jungle, Central America
Comparison games
- Bites
- Toten Common
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Hand Management — Players manage a hand of cards to play for movement and actions.
- Modular Board — The game uses tiles that are laid out, creating the path for movement.
- Race game — The primary objective is to be the first to reach a certain point or complete a goal.
- Set Collection — Players collect sets of artifacts (by color) for scoring.
- Variable player powers — There are different characters (explorer, backpacker, marine) with implied abilities, though not explicitly detailed.
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Quotes (from this video)
- It's like, 'Oh my gosh, here we go.'
- So, it's like if rather than like have me guess what the what you're looking for, then ask your question differently. That's all I'm saying.
- It's a lot of work to look this good.
- The dinosaurs are hot.
- Everyone loves dinosaurs.
- He's like, 'I'm not having that.'
- Steggy's the disappointment.
- Stegy breaks my heart every single time. Every single time.
- Bronto the brontosaurus leaps in that neck. He is way ahead of them and he really should be leading.
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Bower's Game Corner Review at 0:59 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- A lot of interesting things to do with cards and characters.
- Plenty of plans to make, never felt limited.
- Special tiles are really interesting and add rewarding planning.
- No bad moves, every play is beneficial in some way.
- Easy to learn and teach.
- Good table appeal and pretty box art.
- Firmly falls into the 'good to pretty good' category for most people.
- Could be 'great' if you have kids.
- Sufficient strategy for a filler/family weight game.
- Can be requested for game night.
Cons
- Requires a little bit of a better setup.
- Pieces are quite large and need fair table space.
- Reviewer prefers other Reiner Knizia games.
- Could use more action tiles or variation in events.
- Always going to be good, lacking a 'crazy random crinkle' for one reviewer's preference.
- Likely not going into one reviewer's personal collection unless kids gravitate to it.
- Many other filler/family weight games preferred by one reviewer.
Thematic elements
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action spaces — You do whatever that spot tells you to do upon landing on it.
- Card draw — After performing the spot's action, you draw a card.
- Card Play — On your turn, you play a card.
- event cards — Special, larger tiles trigger events that players can plan towards.
- Movement — After playing a card, you move one of the three characters onto a spot.
- Race — Players move characters along a track towards a pyramid, with bonuses for reaching the top.
- Set Collection — Players collect victory points associated with purple, red, and yellow characters/drones.
- variable scoring — Different tiles offer varying victory points for different finishing positions (e.g., 1st, 2nd).
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Quotes (from this video)
- I think it firmly falls into where most of his games fall for me, which is this is good to pretty good to
- I think if you have kids, it could get to great. I take that back.
- But at the end of the day I think Reiner Knizia kind of for me just has a cap and this one hangs around that cap, a little bit below, but still a heck of a good game.
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The Dice Tower Event Coverage at 4:02 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
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)
- And so I wanted to go over in this video some of the things that we are doing there so that you can come by and see us.
- Come by our booth. It is 249 in the exhibit hall.
- If you see me walking around, you see Dice Tower people walking around, stop us to say hi.
- Well, good news, we're putting up a Gen Con blog.
- I'm Tom Vasel and you're watching The Dice Tower heading to Gen Con 2026.
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Tantrum House Top List at 24:41 sentiment: other
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Click to watch at 24:41 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
Intrigued
Pros
- Designed by Reiner Knizia
- Competitive exploration gameplay
- Involves strategic tile movement and color collection
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Competitive exploration, treasure hunting
- Temple exploration
Comparison games
- Incan Gold
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- exploration — Players explore by moving down tiles.
- Push Your Luck — Implied by comparison to Incan Gold and the temple theme.
- Set Collection — Collecting different colored tiles.
- Tile Placement — Players move over different colored tiles.
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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