Game Info
Year
2025
Players
1-4
Age
10+
Playtime
45 min
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Description
Players act as insect curators arranging terrariums from 70 unique insect cards to score points using real insect traits and benefactor abilities
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Grant Lyon Top List at 48:11 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
- Good introduction to strategy games.
- Visually appealing.
- Easy to learn with meaningful choices.
- Plays quickly.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Miniature World / Insects
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Players take insect cards from a central board.
- Set Collection — Collecting same colored insects in a row scores more points.
- special abilities — Cards have special abilities and icons that allow players to perform actions, take more cards, or gain scoring points.
- Tableau Building — Players build rows of insect cards to form a terrarium.
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Quotes (from this video)
- I try to keep it to about 25 games and sometimes that slides to like 30 games, but I don't want it to be more than 30 games because I don't want this video to be crazy long.
- if you want a smaller box pretty game, then check out Parks and Potions.
- it's a really good introduction to strategy games.
- This is one that is going to be a huge hit with young kids, I imagine.
- So, if you want a lot of story in your solo games, that is a reason to play this one.
- It adds more player interaction to the worker placement game.
- I like that sort of fluctuating market aspect of the game. It makes it feel different than other worker placement games out there.
- I think a lot of gamers and just a lot of people in general really respond to this theme, right? I think it's something that's super relatable about having to charge up your social battery in order to go out into the world and do stuff.
- there's just a lot of intrigue on like, why are you moving that? What are you doing right now? How do I outsmart you?
- Vantage over the last month has been fairly divisive.
- if you like worker placement games or if you like visually interesting games, then that's, uh, for sure a reason to play T- Witches.
- It is a deck building game, but it has an interesting aspect to the deck building because every round you're going to shuffle your entire deck and then you're going to flip out cards in a 2x3 grid.
- I love Flip Tunes
- The OP is also releasing fountains.
- This plays 1 to five players in 30 to 45 minutes and it is a mediumweight game though at the lower end of medium weight.
- This is another sort of visually very interesting game.
- It is a deck building game, but it has a interesting aspect to the deck building because every round you're going to shuffle your entire deck and then you're going to flip out cards in a 2x3 grid.
- And so there is a real strategy to the deck building of the game, but there's also just these fun exciting moments where you're like, "Ah, yes, I got that where I needed it to go."
- I love Flip Tunes a lot. I really recommend it.
- I've been doing this Green Team Wins live show at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles, and it's been going super well
- Next night of that is Sunday, November 2nd.
- It's really fun. It's really interactive. It's memorable. It's different every time the show happens.
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Jamie, Tabletoptiktok Review at 0:04 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Beautiful artwork and high production quality (gold foiling and card art)
- Accessible and straightforward, suitable for a wide range of players
- Strong solo mode with adjustable difficulty
- Smart, well-designed components (center board with pop-out cards, clear player aids)
- Encourages action chaining and strategic planning
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Collecting and displaying a tiny ecosystem; scoring based on color diversity and endgame goals
- Terrarium-building tabletops centered on collecting and arranging insects
- procedural/strategic
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action chaining — Insects can be moved or placed to exploit abilities and chain multiple actions together.
- benefactor and showcase cards — Beginning with benefactor and showcase cards provides abilities and endgame scoring opportunities.
- central pool drafting and refill — A shared pool of insects and tokens is drafted from and refilled at the end of each turn.
- color/type collection for scoring — Endgame scoring is based on the number of colors/types (families) of insects in each terrarium.
- Compound Scoring — A solo variant exists with competitive scoring against your own previous scores.
- discovery tokens and iridescent tokens — Discovery tokens enable actions; iridescent tokens grant endgame points.
- placement constraints with locked terrariums — Some placements require locking or unlocking terrariums, adding strategic depth.
- race to 15 / endgame trigger — First to reach 15 ends the game; all players receive an equal number of final turns.
- solo mode — A solo variant exists with competitive scoring against your own previous scores.
- Tableau Building — Players construct personal terrariums by placing insects with abilities in a cascading, strategic layout.
- unlocking terrariums — On a turn, a player chooses which terrarium becomes available for actions, affecting subsequent plays.
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Quotes (from this video)
- this is a beautiful game where you are building out a terrarium in front of you.
- it's such a cute looking game.
- this is how you're going to try and chain things and maximize what you can do on a turn because it is sort of a race to 15
- Look at the amazing artwork on these cards. They're gorgeous.
- I do enjoy the solo mode on this. It feels very competitive.
- Plus, it looks great.
- I think this is a fun game. I really like it.
- menagerie unlock the wonders of a miniature world
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