Game Info
Year
2026
Players
1-4
Age
14+
Playtime
50 min
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Description
A tile-laying survival game where players build floating settlements in a world swallowed by the sea
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BoardGameCo Top List at 41:25 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Very Positive (cooperative mode)
Pros
- Cooperative mode is where the game shines.
- Strong sense of teamwork and collaboration.
- Escalating resources and challenges in cooperative mode.
Cons
- Competitive mode is good but preferred Planet Unknown.
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Planet Unknown
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Cooperative — The cooperative mode is where this game shines.
- Survival Game — because you're playing the survival game to keep escalating the resources you have.
- tile drafting — you're going to be drafting polyomino tiles
- Tile Placement — and you're placing it down onto this this seabboard
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Quotes (from this video)
- I love Enchanted Ivy. I have been having so much fun with it.
- Enchanted Ivy was the sleeper hit for me.
- It is for sure in my top 10 solo games of all time.
- I am absolutely obsessed with Enchanted Ivy. A huge fan of it. And if you're a solo player, highly recommend it.
- My heart probably sings the loudest when a big crunchy Euro game comes out with a cool theme.
- To me, it's just one of those incredibly well done Euro games where you've got this really cool action selection system with the clock spinning in the middle.
- It does what you want out of a heavy euro like that.
- I love that lots of publishers are doing a good job of staying away for that. I think Orlyo, as far as I can tell, seems to balance that and map that out pretty well.
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Board Game Dad Discussion at 0:16 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- The "Holdfast Coding" allows tiles to adhere to themselves.
- There is a lot of potential for each game to be different based on how objectives are drafted.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- objective drafting — Players draft their objectives every round.
- Tile-placing — Calypso is described as a tile-placing game.
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Quotes (from this video)
- What are the most exciting family board games being released at Essen Spiel this year in 2026?
- Calypso is a tile-placing game featuring Holdfast Coding, which is a soft coating that allows the tiles to adhere to themselves almost like magnets.
- So, while there are some uh point-scoring mechanics that you're going to be scoring the same way every single game, there is a lot of potential for each game to be different based on how you're going to be drafting those objectives.
- In Thieves of Eldris, everyone is trying to hide from everyone else. The deduction is going every direction.
- It sounds like it could either be completely chaotic or one of the most compelling challenges.
- Crits and Tricks is a trick-taking game, but in this one the cards only have a suit. The rank of every card is actually determined by the roll of dice.
- So, this is a role-playing themed game where you're rolling dice from everything from a D4 to a D20 behind a screen, and then as you're playing the tricks, you're assigning dice to your characters.
- Much like Origin Story, which was one of my favorite games last year, this sounds like a really thematic experience full of surprises, crits and tricks.
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Board Gaming Ramblings Top List at 6:40 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Fantastic competitive version
- Cooperative version works perfectly
Cons
- Host doesn't enjoy co-op games
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)
- If you want to see us, you can see us. If you find us, if you can't find us, you won't see us because we will be hiding.
- Caveat number one, we haven't played any of these games because the games we have played, we're not putting on the anticipated list.
- We will be hiding hopefully to see you there. But today, top 10 anticipated spills.
- It's like a hide and seek. We will be always hiding before you will get a point if you find us. But if you do do see us, please show us the secret sign.
- We can't do the same thing two times in one video, but we just did because this is our channel and you can subscribe to it because it's a pretty cool channel.
- If a lot of the components in this game is plastic components, you can really say it's an oil based game.
- Um, but other than that, um, I don't know anything about this game.
- This is rambling, but that's what we do.
- So, we had to film this video before we played it.
- We hope you enjoyed it. We hope you see your spiel. If you have any questions, you can find out more information.
- If you see us at Spiel, we hope to see you there.
- What is your most anticipated game?
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The Board Game Garden Review at 4:19 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Looked fantastic
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Puzzly gameplay — and the like puzzly gameplay of it
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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BoardGameCo Top List at 5:32 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- adored that prototype
- had so much fun with it
- great game
Cons
- looking forward to the final version
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)
- The five out of fives I've played in 2026 so far.
- there's been a good year for board games, although it does come with like this weird pressure.
- I feel like I'm being too cavalier if there's a whole bunch of them.
- I do kind of consider five out of fives different categories.
- Recall gives me a lot of the feeling that Revive does, but with more variance to the gameplay and the power combinations and the ways you're trying to build and expand across the board.
- It is such a clever experience as far as how it all comes together.
- Six Susurrus surprised me.
- it is so simple and easy to play.
- Every decision you make is so fraught with what is the right economy here.
- It is such a good clever system that rewards every single choice with such a huge degree of thinkingness behind it.
- I want to play a nice heavy thinky experience, but I don't actually want a nice heavy thinky long game.
- If a game deserves a five out of five, it's going to get it.
- For me, a five out of five is a game that I will sit down and play any single time that I am down.
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