Game Info
Year
2026
Players
1
Age
10+
Playtime
30 min
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Description
A solo game about inheriting a family pastry shop where you satisfy demanding customers manage aging equipment and unravel an ancient recipe book across 12 recipe scenarios
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Totally Tabled Rules Teach at 0:03 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Clever use of folding mechanism to enhance theme.
- Tricky puzzle elements offer depth.
- Employees' special abilities add strategic options.
- Variable rewards (money or tiles) create interesting decisions.
- Thematic incorporation of time pressure for folding.
Cons
- Folding can be difficult and requires practice (host admits being bad at it).
- Decisions about taking money vs. tiles can be tricky.
- Leftover covered symbols are lost if not used.
Thematic elements
- Running a pastry shop and fulfilling customer orders
- A family pastry shop
Comparison games
- Conservas
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Cloth folding — A core mechanic where players fold cloth sheets to create the game board, representing pastry creation.
- contract fulfillment — Players aim to fulfill customer orders by matching symbols on their folded cloths with customer demands.
- Equipment maintenance — Players can pay to avoid negative effects from equipment failure cards.
- Push Your Luck — The game involves deciding whether to take money or tiles as rewards, and managing leftover resources that might be lost.
- Resource Management — Players manage money, employees, and ingredient tiles.
- Set Collection — Players collect ingredient tiles to fulfill customer orders.
- Variable player powers — Employees have special abilities that affect gameplay, such as allowing leftover tiles to be stored or mitigating penalties.
- Worker Placement — Players gain employees who provide benefits or tiles.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Pastelero is a solo only pastry making contract fulfillment board game that uses a puzzly cloth folding mechanism.
- Believe me, there's no danger of that happening [getting a gourmet victory].
- Okay, my bad folding really came into play there.
- So, that's what I was trying to make.
- The folding system to really bring out the theme of pastry making. It's really quite clever, and I find the puzzle here very tricky.
- It's tricky to know like how many customers you're going to want for each day. It's hard to know when to take the money and when to take the tiles. It's just a very tricky puzzle.
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BoardGameCo Other at 9:07 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Very intrigued by the concept.
- Trusts the designer's work.
- Excited for the polyomino bakery gameplay.
Cons
- No guarantee of liking it, as some of the designer's games work better than others.
Thematic elements
- Run your own pastry business.
- Scenario-based
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- polyomino tiles — Uses polyomino tiles for bakery management.
- scenario-based — Features 12 unique scenarios.
- Solo Gameplay — Designed for solo play.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is the most chaotic opening. I probably should just restart, but it's too late now. We're here.
- This is based on the video game, not based on the board game, which also is not based on the video game.
- Teamwork is optional and betrayal is rewarded.
- A big fan of Terraforming Mars said this is the best Terraforming Mars experience they have ever had, period, full stop.
- A lemonade apocalypse game. That's what it is.
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