Tend - Unboxing

Right, I think we are live. Good afternoon everybody. Thank you very much for joining me. Let me know if you can hear me and see me okay. Welcome to a slightly impromptu unboxing video. I didn't plan this at the start of the week when I do my plans of the week cuz I wasn't 100% sure it was going to arrive.

But it's arrived. This is Tend. So I've heard lots of good things about this game. First thing is this box is one of the heaviest boxes, if not the heaviest boxes for its size that there is. And you can see it's got a fancy fancy cover on it. So I'm not sure what's in this. Maybe IV Studios have kindly sent me some some gold.

I don't know, or some lead maybe. We'll find out soon. So a little bit of a story just before we start, assuming everything's working okay. Yeah, it is working okay. Is most of the time in the fortunate position that I am, I get publishers contacting me offering me copies of games either to do sponsored videos on or reviews or whatever.

And I'll be honest with you most of the time I say no because I get more offers than I have time to cover. Once or twice a year, I'm the one that reaches out to a publisher, not counting Essen. Essen is is is separate. And this is one of those times. So this is a game which I'd heard lots of things about and a number of my patron supporters said that I would like it.

So I contacted IV Studios and they kindly sent me this copy. Now, this is I believe the deluxe version with all of the extra bits in. So I can't compare it to the normal version of the game. We'll find out. We'll find out what's inside. Well, it says one to six players plus 60 to 90 minutes age 14 or more.

Uh I'm I like the artwork. I like the I like the style. I like the the production of it. I've heard it's a roll and write game. And lots of people have told me that if I like Hadrian's Wall or the Anarchy, which I do, then I'm probably going to like this one as well. And personally I like kind of harvesting, crafting, planting things and things like that.

So, we have a little rule book. Oh, look how cute this is. Okay. So, and I've also heard it's more of a multiplayer solitaire game and that you're not really interacting with other players, but there is one way in which you can use your neighbor's stuff. We'll find out. I don't know what the rule book's like.

Um it looks good from the layout. There's lots of big pictures. I like big pictures. So, I don't think it's an overly complicated game, but yeah, we'll we'll find out as we dig in. So, what we have here is we have because it's a roll and write game is we have sheets. Now, that's going to make the game heavy.

Alun is in the chat says it's one of his favorite games of the last 6 months. So, okay. So, we have some sheets here. Oh, we have some we have some more sheets. Are these are these exactly the same? I think they're the same. Okay. So, we've got two three three packs of sheets. Four packs of sheets. How many more is there?

Four. Four packs of these sheets and there's what? 50 per sheet? So, okay. That that's probably why one reason why the box is heavy is that we've got four of those sheets. Then, we have a different sheet. Okay. Now, this this is coming one big pack. So, I don't know why that's coming four separate ones and this is coming one big pack, but anyway, we have a second sheet here.

What I might do is I might just get another preset. That's not very big, is it? Let me just um let me just zoom in with this with this camera a bit. Oh, what's going on there? Don't want that. Ignore that. Uh da da da da da da da da and yeah, I'm just going to zoom in on what's going on here. Ah, there you go.

impromptu unboxings Let's Let's zoom in a little bit more on this. There you go. Right, we're zooming a bit more. So, this is the first sheet that we saw. And then this is the second sheet. So, See, looking at this makes me feel like the game is quite complicated, but I'm kind of hoping that you know, a lot of this is fairly self-explanatory.

And when you see Hadrian's Wall on the Anarchy for the first time, you think, "Oh my god, that's really complicated." So, apparently, the four packs are all different. According to Alan, the four packs are all different. So, we're going to play spot the difference now. Cuz I'm looking and I'm not seeing any differences on these sheets at all.

No, but Alan says they're all different. The more colorful sheet is all the same. So, this is all the same. Apparently, the other ones are different. I'm not seeing the differences. Flip them over. There's nothing on the other side. Oh, you mean flip them as in Okay, I'll have a look in more detail later.

Apparently, they're all different. All right, let's go back to the main view. Where should we go next? Let's go here. card Right, what have we got? Oh, we got fancy Right, this is some more sheets. This could be player aids. I don't know, but we got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. Somebody's going to tell me these are all different and I'm going to spend 5 minutes looking for the differences, but they all look the same.

I got 12 of these. Whatever they are, we'll find out in a minute. We have a scratch-off pack. Now, somebody did tell me about this. Somebody told me there was a scratch-off pack. 100 Woods and Mines scratch-off cards. Okay, we'll have a look at them in a minute. We've got some cards which we'll have a look at more closely.

We have some packs with some cards in, including some foil cards. And we have another And this is This is quite a heavy box itself. So, this is another reason why this old whole box here is quite heavy. Cuz we've got this. Not as stand-alone games. Coins not included. These cards are included in all editions of 10.

Okay? Right, so that's it for that one, I think. Over on the other side, let's see what we've got in here. Pens. We have some pens. Like quite a lot of pens for different colors and different players in the game. And then we start to dive in to the dice. So, I have seen some pictures of this game being played.

And I have seen that there are dice of different sizes. So, we've got some small dice. We've got some more small dice. We've got some dice with numbers on. We've got some some bigger dice. And then we've got some even bigger dice. Huge dice. Right, I'll have a look at those in more detail. We've got some zip lock bags, which is nice.

We've got some metal coins included in the deluxe version. What else do we have? More dice. And we have a play mat. So, that's it in terms of the components in the box. So, what's interesting about this game is that when I saw the size of the box and I felt the weight of the box, I thought, "Oh my gosh, this is like, you know, going to be a game with hundreds and hundreds of components." And actually, it doesn't have that many different types of components, it's just got a lot of them.

So, we have a lot of dice, a lot of sheets of paper, we have a lot of cards, etc., etc. So, what are we going to look at first? Let's have a look at some of these cards. I will show you some of these in a bit more detail. We have two different sizes of cards, and we've got some extra ones here. Season one.

Starter. Okay, let's open up one of these, and we'll show you. The dice are different sizes on purpose. Yes. There will be a play-through coming to the channel soon. Say soon. I'll I'll double-check my diary in a minute. So, let's get the other camera sorted. And we have this is some of the cards. So, nice and simple, nothing too complicated.

Chopping, fishing, tending. It is a game about farming. We've got slightly more complicated card here with more stuff on, and it's advanced. But, yeah, I you can get an idea from this. We have a spacer. We have a merit earner. Graphic design looks quite neat and tidy. Aw, look at the cute animals. Yeah.

Okay. All right, that's a few of those cards. Let's have a look at some of the smaller cards. Let's we open just one of these packs. Can we get it open? We have it open. So, river fishing. Presumably, ah, little mini games on the other side. Grotto fishing, lake fishing, geode. Yeah, so, my guess is that when you go river fishing, you will maybe draw one of these cards.

And it might tell you what you get. And then we have neighbor cards here. I think these are when you're playing with other people. So, I don't know. As I said, I've not read the rules of this yet. But, it is quite exciting cuz as I said, I quite like, you know, new games arriving. Like the idea of farming and stuff like that.

But now, let's have a little closer look at one of these boards. See how it is. Oh, let's have a look at the um play mat. How are we going to get in? Right. So, this is the the main play mat. Looks like we're going to be putting cards on here. Yep. Right. And then we have this. So, not knowing how to play the game, but from pictures and just going through the rule book, where's the rule book?

Very quickly, you are going to be placing dice onto your spaces, I think, in your farm. Or maybe it's not on here. Maybe it's on here. You know, these sheets that are all different. So, yeah, I'm just looking at the uh I'm I'm just looking at the rule book here, and it looks like dice are being placed on there, but maybe it is here.

Oh, no, it is it it is here. Yeah, okay. So, I think these are animals. And you're going to be placing your dice on here like this. So, yeah, they take up a certain amount of space depending on how big they are. But, you You see from here that you're going to be planting crops into your field. The crops are going to be growing.

You're going to be tilling the soil, etc., etc. Stuff like that. Right. Okay. Let's have a look at some of the other stuff cuz I'm keen to know what's in these boxes cuz I've got two of them. I'm not sure why I've got two of them, but we'll have a look. I need to check out the pens, apparently. All right.

Okay. I'll check out the pens in a minute. So, we have 100 scratch-off pack. And we have another 100 scratch-off pack. Now, I don't know if if these are identical, and I don't know if these are an add-on or these are actually part of the main game itself. If anybody knows, let me know. Yeah, I quite like the artwork as well.

This This pack doesn't have the little tab on it, so I'm struggling to get in. Let me just Let me just open it up. Right. What am I scratching off on this? Am I literally scratching this off? Which I'm not going to do on camera, but yeah, it looks like I do. According to the picture here, you use the metal coins and you actually scratch off stuff here.

Okay. And I guess these are all random, what you get. Nice. Okay. So, I've been a Have a look at the pens. And the pens have two ends to use. Okay, they are part of the game, but the deluxe gets two boxes, and you can get an app for them as well. So, some of these are already open. Um have I lost some of the tops?

Okay. It Ah, yes. Some of the tops have already come off, so they might be dried up already. Um I'm missing the top of that one. There we go. So, yeah, one end of the pen is a normal pen. And then the other end, apparently, is Oh, it's a stamp. So, that's a little heart. I'm just going to try it. Oh, that's cool.

That is very cool. I don't know if you can see that, but we've just made a little I've not seen that before in the game. So, we've literally just drawn a little heart on here. And on this one, what's this? Yeah, I might need to push down a bit more. Yeah, I don't know what that is. But Oh, there we go.

Okay. Yeah, that's quite cool. So, yeah, so they're the pens. So, we've got blue ones, got red ones, got purple ones, got yellow ones, we've got black ones. Are the black ones Yeah, they're just they're just like a big thick end. And a little thick end. Right, there we go. Um I think that's that's about it.

I don't really have much else to show you um in the game. But this is a game where I'm going to be downloading the rulebook, sticking it on my iPad, and or I might go and sit outside. Although, I've got to go to the gym in a bit. Yeah, maybe I'll take this with me to the gym. And have a look. I know IV Studios have done a official how to play video on the game.

So, I might give that a watch while I'm on the treadmill. Right, let me have a look at my diary so that I can tell you when I'm going to be covering this on the channel. And it will be a sponsored play through, which means there will be some Patreon only play throughs beforehand. So, if you are one of my Patreon supporters, you will have access to a video where I will be learning this game for the first time and playing it.

And then the public will get access to my actual play through video. And the reason why I do that it is it's a sponsored play through video. I need to prepare, I need to practice, and I need to get used to the game. So, I do live stream those bonus play throughs for my patron supporters. Right, where is it?

Here we go. June. So, June the 12th is when I have a play-through video of this planned. So, probably at the start of June, I don't think I can wait that long. Although, I've got a very busy couple of weeks. Yeah, so at the start of June is when I will be learning this game. And if you are one of my patron supporters, you will get a message about that.

But, the public play-through is going to be on Friday, the 12th of June. And my question for you is how many people do you think I should have in the public play-through game? Ultimately, the that decision is up to the publisher because they're sponsoring the play-through, but I'm just curious. I know a lot of people have covered this game solo, and apparently, it, you know, works best as a solo.

But, my thinking is maybe two, three, or four players. So, let me know in the comments how many people you think, if you know the game, might be best for this. And we will be showing it off, and it'll be a full tutorial and a play-through and everything else. Tom Heath has also got a solo play-through.

Yes, if you can't wait for my play-through video, Tom Heath from Slicker Drips has a solo play-through on the game. I'll probably watch that as well, um over the next couple of weeks. But, yeah, we're all done. So, today has not been a sponsored video. So, a big thank you to all of my patron supporters for funding the channel.

And if you like the content that I create and you want to support me directly, you can do so at patreon.com/gamingrules. Other than that, I will see you on Friday evening, the 12th of June, for a play-through video of this game. Until next time, take care, and thanks for watching. Bye-bye.