Must Buy Games at Spiel Essen 2025!

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0:39 We had to cut this list like a million times. And I just like it's it's insane. There's so many great games that coming out and they and you can buy

0:51 for this list. We we're trying to focus on the games that are actually being released literally released or just about to be released in this like coming up to spiel. Of course, you can buy a million games that came in came out before and stuff that we covered already on the channel, but this is kind of like the new new. That's why a lot of these games we haven't really played it yet. It's kind of like games that we're going to put our money on. So,

1:16 yeah, we're putting our money on. Yeah, we're we're basically betting on this

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1:45 Rolling dice, feeling nice. Got more dreams and games. Click subscribe. It's a vibe for stupid all we need to be game for you and me. Here's what you should play and see. We're starting this. Um, of course, Wayne wanted to put this game. Uh, of course, because he's it's a it's a Dr. Kitia game.

2:20 Say something. I knew it.

2:23 It's just like we can't do any list where there's no Kia at least been named once. It's in my contract. Just like, yes,

2:29 it's in my contract. Contract. I don't know what, but yeah. Uh, but we're talking about um a remaking of a of an older game. the older games was Queen

2:41 Chin

2:42 uh Chin Queen Quinn Chin I don't know

2:45 Q I N

2:46 you you'll tell us

2:46 comments tell me how to say

2:48 uh but um the new the new version is

2:50 gazebo gazebo by bitewing gameswing games seem to have some sort of arrangement with the good doctor

2:57 I think I think they they chained him in um in a

3:00 put him in chain design work yeah no they're coming up with a lot of the new kinesia stuff and this This is one of the this is one of those and I love that because bitewing games are making beautiful looking great production games which is really cool and what's also very exciting that bitewing are doing are they are reimplementing some older designs that Dr. Kichia has done in a new package and this is going to

3:27 and a refined rule set

3:28 a refined rule set yes in some cases as well uh and this is going to be uh part of their new travel line which is very exciting because if you go and have a look at the Beautiful. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a It's a picnic board game. Exactly. A very beautiful product that is going to come with a little travel bag that you can take it around in as well.

3:47 Uh and a really fabulous game. It is going to be almost a domino like game. You're going to be placing dominoes on a shared garden map uh to try and create contiguous terrain spaces of the same type uh which you're then going to put one of your gazeos on top of uh connecting it and then getting points. So, some really really nice stuff. But however, because it's a Canitia game,

4:08 of course, I was gonna say, it just like it sounds so nice. So, but Kit always put that a little bit of mean element of chaos. Yes.

4:19 Larger nooks, so the bigger collections can absorb smaller ones and patios can be stolen by your arrivals. So, uh, which is really exciting. I mean, it's going to have that bit of magic that I love about Ginia Designs, one of my favorite alltime designers. Uh, so I'm very excited to get this beautiful looking product uh and add it to my shopping bag at Shiel.

4:41 Yeah. And you can uh take it for a picnic.

4:43 I can take it for a picnic.

4:44 Yeah. Whatever you want to whatever you want to go

4:46 with with Dr. Kit.

4:49 Yeah. I think it will be your your dream like

4:52 Yeah.

4:53 You wake up sometimes in the night thinking about like

4:56 I go down to my shrine in my lap

4:59 and I bow then I go back to bed. Gaze

5:04 Matt, the next one on this list is a very zen feeling.

5:08 Yeah, we're staying on the garden kind of like feeling. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um we're talking about koi.

5:16 Love the koi. Beautiful fish.

5:18 Absolutely. Very expensive.

5:20 Love the koi. They are very expensive. And in koi, what you what you're doing in this very zen way, you're building a koi pond. Uh you're building all the features of a koi pond and then you p putting koi pond and trying to make it as beautiful as possible.

5:36 Putting koi in your pond.

5:37 Yes, exactly. So what um each player is going to do is going to be like it's going to be um um it's going to have a sensei that kind of like help them build it with different powers. Let let them actually build the pawn. So during your turn, you can decide if you want to expand your pond, build your bit be featuring on your pond like little um uh bridges or all this kind of like very Japanese Japanese um culturally like

6:05 interesting

6:06 interesting bits or or you can um um meditate. So you can draw more cards that will let you put more pieces down in the next turn. you can earn coins where you can go at the market to buy more tiles or buy the koi that you're going to you're going to put down. Um all of this in with this beautiful production where all the koi has got this acrylic um tiles 3D elements.

6:31 So yeah and uh there is going to be this like puzzly things about cuz each koi is going to have a a different kind of like tile um size that you need to think about. Okay, I'm going to put my koi here. is beautiful but takes all the space. I can't put all the or is a weird shape. So there is a towel placement. Uh there is this this building mechanisms. There's going to be um end of different end of game scoring mechanism. Um so it's but all in this like very zen way.

7:02 Stunning as well. I mean this is one of the games that really caught both of our eyes just for for the production value alone.

7:07 Yes. Uh this is the very interesting one.

7:10 And he's he's from um DV game, the same guys that um brought us uh Bonsai a few years ago. They still keep this like this this zen

7:22 this vibe that is um it's really good. So since we are in the era of coziness, this is Japanese coziness. I'll buy into it.

7:31 Matt's going to buy it. Koi, one game that we managed to play the prototype at um UKGE this year and it's going to be finally ready to be to be bought bought and take home and played. uh is this uh is the new CGE game tower placement family plus game that has a lot to say because it's not just family plus I think it's really interesting stuff there and it is

7:59 whisp so tech games edition they tend to come out one game a year and it's typically a banger uh have as they have done for the last couple of years yeah exactly and then a few years ago but Whisp is doing um the poly polyomino game. It's their take on a polyomino game but done in an interesting way. Max norally you'd be drafting you know specific different polyomino pieces. No, in this game you get sort of individual tiles which you need to place into polyomino shapes

8:30 uh where you're trying to attract the wisps into your forest into your area and they're going to form part of these polyomino shapes. Um, and what's interesting about this game, one of many interesting things is each round you're going to need to create sort of slightly bigger squares. Yeah. Of the shapes, right? You get obviously bonuses for completing your squares.

8:50 But between each round,

8:51 the wisps stay the ones that were part of those polyomino shapes that you created, but the the individual blank tiles would disappear, which means you get a new puzzle every round because you need to try and link them up again.

9:04 Yeah, exactly. So you got really cool. Yeah, you got these things about the the wood itself keeps growing cuz you I think you start from a from a a 6x6 grid then you go like 9 by9 and it it goes bigger and the fact that you got um each rounds you need to reset everything beside the tiles with the whisp. That means that you're going to be like oh wow um I'm not really sure which which tile I need to put. And then you got this central uh market tile where you gonna pick up the shape that that you want to do.

9:36 Different scoring each round. So it's different scoring cards. Really?

9:39 Yeah. We we really enjoyed it um our play through last time and um that's why it's a game that we we think it's one of those that you can play with a a bunch of different like people. Yeah. You can play with ball gamers because it's they the the parts there is different enough from a lot of other games. They're going to be interesting, but at the same time you can play with family members. You can play with non ball gamers cuz it's uh it's very easy. You got the market there. You need to select which t which one forest you need to build that specific things with the with the smaller pieces and off you go and next round. So

10:17 this is uh really interesting one and we've played it. It's very good. Uh, and if you got a spare a few quid, uh, then you could do worse. It's a really good puzzle.

10:26 Yeah, exactly. And it's not one of those heavy games. Uh, by the way, all the prices are going to be here up up here on the on the graphics, but it's not going to be breaking the bank. It's something like if you got a few pounds left.

10:38 Check it out. It's just really, really good. The production, of course, the CG is really good. It's a very,

10:45 it's very well done.

10:46 Yeah, exactly. This one's got a lot of potential, and it's Whisp Matt. love a tag team.

10:55 Anyway, you knew it's coming. So th this is the next game on our list you should go and spend some money on. And it is of course

11:02 Yeah. Stark theme from Scorpion Mask.

11:04 And the Scorpion Mask we love for a few reasons. But

11:07 yes. So this game again was the hot stuff a few months ago. It's uh it's not going to be released at Spiel. It just been released now. So just a few weeks before. So we kind of like this is going to be really big just like yes exactly. So um I I think this is going to be one to be one of the games they're going to have cues or people running to you to buy to buy a copy. Um what we're talking about is um um it's an autobler deck building.

11:38 Yes.

11:39 Where you playing with two characters each is a one versus one game. Two character each that you can you can take from a roster of different the Street Fighter style.

11:50 Yeah, exactly. And everything is like very Street Fighter,

11:52 Marvel vs. Capcom, that sort of stuff.

11:54 Each each um each character will have its own deck of cards that you can mix together to create the to create the deck and uh they will have their special special powers, special moves, and stuff like that. Um the very interesting things about this this game is that um you're going to start with a deck of two cards.

12:12 Yeah, two cards. That's it. Uh so then being an auto battler that means that you're going to place those cards in a specific way and every round you just flip the first card, the second card, you apply the effects and then the second card. At the end of the round you you can insert one extra card in this deck, but the sequence is going to stay the same. You can put that card as first or in the middle or or

12:38 the other two they don't change. You need to sort of

12:40 Exactly. And then you go again auto butler. you you flip one, you flip the second, you flip the third. Um, now the very interesting things is the is the deck building elements because if you got all right, let's say attack attack attack on my on my two cards and you know that you want to have on your two cards first, you want to have defense defense. So, you're going to counter me, but then you're going to be like, oh, did he took another attack card or did he took another defense card? Where did he put it? and then effect and then you're going to find it in the next round cuz again you adding one card every time to this um to this auto battle. So you're going to flip those cards. There's a little bit of like reverb sub psychology player and also the combos between the different uh fighters. Each fighter has its own specific deck and the combinations that you can have obviously are many many uh depending on how you blend them together. And that sounds amazing to us with great artwork, of course. Very exciting game uh that we can't wait to buy.

13:41 Yeah. And now I should not say it, but um because I wanted one for myself, but you can actually pre-order the game. You can have a um a special characters added to your pre-order. I should not say because I haven't done my pre-order yet, but do pre-order. I should do by pre-order. Um I really want that you've got two special characters, but only one with the pre-order. But maybe if I beg enough, they're going to get me another one.

14:06 Stop your mask, please.

14:08 We do love Portugal, isn't it? We went we went on holiday together in uh in Portugal and I got a little bit of sodi of Portugal. Do you know what saji is?

14:19 No. What saji?

14:20 Saji is that words in Portuguese, more Brazilian Portuguese, but Portuguese in general. Um that is like that feeling of like missing home or like you know like being homesick. Sal and Sali.

14:35 Yeah.

14:35 Did you like my Portuguese?

14:36 I did. It's very good.

14:39 Um is um it's one of the the theme um that the um the father's musician plays course. So I throw you like this link on a computer cuz the game we're talking about is

14:55 is of course FO by Eagle Griffin Games and the mighty Valera. Now, don't be scared. You might have heard the words vital then and went running under the covers.

15:06 That was the first thing that I did because when when like oh there is the this new game house of fo and um is is uh is super cool. It very interesting team is a lassera game. I was like not for me just like it just I did not have the capacity immediately started crying blood

15:26 immediately. But then we we've been assured that this game like complexity is possibly one of his lightest ever designs.

15:34 Yeah. So which I am but still it's still like

15:37 still very interesting. Still still very but exciting. So as you say Matt Fo beautiful music style native to Portugal about love loss about heartbreak about longing for home that bittersweet feeling. And this is running a FO restaurant a fo place where you want your customers in. They want to them to enjoy the music. if you want to enjoy them being served. And this utilizes and makes most the most of this worker placement type element, but worker bumping, which we've seen in lots of other games in the gallerist and other design, but also in games like Galactic

16:08 Cruise. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. In the more than Yeah.

16:11 Exactly. Which we love because it gives you this great positive interaction where you're going to be placing your workers around to enact effects, but also trying to place them in a tactical way where you're going to be pushed off to then trigger another bonus, which we love in games. And I love the idea of this nice interesting game with an interesting theme um with beautiful artwork uh with positive interaction but is actually for a Lerta game is going to be accessible.

16:34 Yeah. And that is that is great. It looks really cool. It looks like well the setup is going to be each player is going to have his own restaurant that is going to face on the on the street where all the people the customers are moving around. So that you're trying to um uh get the the best musicians to to play in your in your restaurant. So you need to manage like the like resources resourcing the the um the musicians that they need to play the right songs and to get this the that or these or that um customers. They're going to come to your house and and and eat. Just like it's it's really really cool.

17:13 It's really lovely. It's a beautiful an interesting theme. Uh, and Eagle Griffin do beautiful games. Uh, so I'm very, very excited.

17:19 Yeah. So, House of Fo, I think, is going to come back home with us, isn't it?

17:23 I think. Yes. It's It's in my shopping list.

17:26 There's not many themes that we like more than Pirates.

17:33 No.

17:33 It's such a badass theme.

17:35 It is.

17:36 We love cyberpunk. We love sci-fi, but Pirates is right.

17:39 Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. In the in the top three. Top three. And um I'm I'm always sad because uh there is a lot of like piratey team is always taken more like on a on a party game pirate.

17:52 There's less of like a not serious but yeah being a pirate. Yeah. Um but luckily this year we got Fortunes of Scoundrel Bay. Yo ho ho.

18:05 Where you can really be a pirate.

18:08 Sounds like it.

18:09 Yeah. going around, conquering Arbers, seeking hideouts, delivering crates, digging up for treasures, gaining reputation as the worst pirates of the seven seas. Uh, this this is sounds amazing. I have to be honest, I just pre-ordered this because I pre-order. Yeah, cuz I couldn't I couldn't afford to not have it in my collection. Um, so what happening in the game is of course each one uh each one of player is a captain. uh is a pirate captain. H So during the game, you want to try to to build up your crew. So you can recruit all the uh all the characters that's going to give you like more more action that you can possibly do uh with your ship. You can navigate, you can go around, dig up treasures, become famous, fighting fighting the Kraken or something like that. Uh you can invade ports and pillage and doing all those all those kind of things. Um but the very interesting things about this game is uh so you got this this deck of like unique 84 unique cards. All of them they're multi-use. So you get you can use those cards to do different kind of action. So there is this hand management um pieces and then these very interesting things about action selection because you cannot repeat this the same action that you took the the round before. That's why you need to be really clever about, okay, if I'm moving

19:41 here this round, that next round I can't move. I might be like in in the middle of a fight or

19:47 if I if I shoot this monster and don't kill it. I can't shoot it again. So, it might it might it might kick me out. Um, so it's uh it's really good. And on top of that, there is of course you want to be the the most famous pirate. That's that's all it is cuz that's that's the pirates. Um and uh you basically the game ends as soon as one of the captain cross the fifth reef but that doesn't mean that that is going to be the winner because you can race to be the one that does the that complete that as a as a first but you might miss out on a lot of things. So there is going to be a lot of nice tension beside around the table like am I close to the game right now but do I have enough resources? Do I have enough fame?

20:34 Kind of a variable game length.

20:36 So driven. I think it's really good. Sometimes other player will be like, "No, I'm just going to cut everyone and just go for the victory and even with just a few points, I might still come up victorious." Really in a pirate way.

20:51 It's a pirates life for me. It's definitely a pirate's life for that.

20:55 Fortunes of Scoundre Bay are one game that we are really, really excited. Again, we are excited about a lot of caves, but this we are really, really excited. Um, it's the new Mine Clash game. Uh, we had again a sneak peek in the last few months. So, we saw a few little things and we're talking about Ember Heart. Ember is the new game in Mind Clash's play line. So, they got Mind Mind Clash Play and the last game they released in that line was Ironwood.

21:28 Yeah. That we we liked just a little bit, isn't it? We love that game. It is amazing. So, of course, we're very very excited about the new one and they are promising in this a more sort of mediumweight worker placement type game, but still with that beautiful mind clash production which we all know and love.

21:47 And the idea in this game is you're going to be a champion of the king in this sort of fantasy realm where you're going to be uh sending various hirelings out to do tasks. when you send your hilings out, you're essentially going to be bidding on action locations, which I love the idea. I can go and send out a bunch of folks. Uh, but if I don't send enough out, you might send more and then you'll get more of a bonus than I will. So, in that round, it's quite very interesting. This whole like bidding for actions. Um, and there are different types of workers as well that you can also recruit. So, you've got versatile grunts who can go and do a bit of everything, but aren't particularly specialized. or you can go to like uh use your super specialist ones who are like single use only. They'll be super powerful. They'll definitely get you the thing you want, but you won't be able to use them again.

22:35 But the cool things about this game here is you got a dragon.

22:40 You got dragons. So you got dragon. You can train and you can make it bigger, better,

22:48 better. He can go out and helping out you on this worker placement. He can be one of of the party and that he can help and he'll give them bonuses.

22:58 Yes, exactly.

22:58 Which is really cool. And he can help you get more more heroes. You can crew heroes which will give you unique abilities as well.

23:04 And you can save all the dragons from the poachers or you can attack the poachers. We don't like the poacher will free the dragons. Exactly. Free the dragons.

23:13 Love this idea. Love the idea of training with dragon companion. That sounds super awesome.

23:19 Um yeah, we cannot be more excited for Ember. And if we're lucky, we'll get a little copy of that to play.

23:24 Oh, yeah. I can't I can't wait. I cannot wait to train my own dragon to be the best dragon.

23:30 Best dragon

23:31 between dragons. I can be a dragon.

23:33 You should go and buy this cuz it sounds amazing.

23:36 Dragons.

23:36 Ember.

23:38 Matt, on our Patreon, we had an amazing conversation with Spven from Brett Ballet. Yes.

23:43 Friend of the show. Lovely man. He was very excited.

23:46 Checking on the page.

23:46 Check it out on the pat. He was very excited about one game in particular. Uh, and that game is FA's Swamp.

23:54 Yes. Um, this one caught our attention cuz it looks quite pretty cool. It's got quite a quirky um

24:00 quirky looking word and uh once the board was just like, "Okay, interesting. Interesting." So basically what it um the game is, you are in this like fantastic realms. You are one of the faction that lives in the swamp. Um, and what you're trying to do, you're trying to contribute to the um to making the swamp um better and more glorious. And of course, the the more points you bring toward this m glorious swamp uh you are the winner.

24:30 Everyone needs points.

24:31 Um now this um um very interesting things. It looks like it's going to be more on the heavier tactical game. Um during you got um during the turn phase, you can unice your your unique character uh powers to um place your workers that are going to be these little boats that goes around in the in the swamp to do different action. Uh so getting points or fishing fish or um

25:00 trading with the other clans.

25:01 Yeah, exactly. or you can actually just upgrade your own your own clan to be to be better to be uh to be cooler than um every others. Um but again there is like a little bit of like a pick up and deliver um um territorial control

25:20 exploration blah.

25:21 Yes. And um and it's like a tech tree for your civilization as well. So it looks like heavier but I don't know. I'm just like so attracted to this game that I I need to have it. It looks like it's it looks it looks

25:37 It does sound very very exciting and I think this one is actually quite hyped by a few folks. So this is certainly one that if you do have your eye on I feel like there might be a queue.

25:47 So probably run for this. Um it's looks pretty cool. I definitely I'm going to run for it cuz

25:55 So you're going to have to beat Matt in the queue.

25:56 Yeah. Sorry.

25:57 Yeah. We'll we'll do a race.

26:00 I said it before. I'm going to say it again. Go on.

26:02 I know the games are really exciting.

26:04 Looks like it is. It is.

26:07 Oh, come on. It's like Christmas. It's Christmas.

26:10 Christmas early.

26:11 It's a It's a Christmas for ball games.

26:13 Christmas where I buy myself presents.

26:15 Yeah. Exactly.

26:15 Over and over again.

26:16 Exactly. With that and and you don't check your credit card for for a couple of months. That's the rule.

26:22 That's that's the future waiting to worry about.

26:24 Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's for

26:25 I hate that guy anyway.

26:26 Yeah. Yeah. Um but another one um this is from um from Mighty Board again is um it's one of those publisher that we always praise because they always come with with a lot of very good stuff,

26:40 cool ideas, great productions and good price points

26:42 and always different in their line of games. They don't they never had like this is similar to another game that they did before. Exactly. And this is another proof of these things where we going talking about

26:54 Pinched. pitched. It's a game of burglary or as they say in the game, wealth redistribution because burglary is such an ugly term. Uh and where you are essentially competing wealth distributors, burglars,

27:08 they're not thieves. Not thieves at all. Absolutely. Where you're going to be trying to create mastermind heists of the various locations around the table. They're going to be different locations uh which will be depending on the game that you want to play. You've got advanced variants and simple variants. And uh you're going to have essentially on your turn, you're going to be placing a card on the table simultaneously to which will uh tell everyone at the table which place you're going to go and burgle.

27:35 And what you want to try and do is be the only one burgling one of those places because otherwise if I know Wayne is going there, you know what? I'm going to tag along and I'm going to take some loot. Exactly. If I'm the only one there, I will get all of the loot. So, there's a lot of table talk, a lot of interesting stuff. And what's also very, very cool is each of the locations also has a special ability that you'll activate, which is very, very interesting. And that might combo with some of the other stuff that you might be interested in. So, people be like, "Okay, what have you got at your table?" Uh, there's some set collection. So, you might want to get points at the end with set.

28:08 Exactly. So, you I'm like, "Oh, Matt really needs some of these jewels. There's jewels at this location. He's definitely going to go there." But then we know

28:15 I know that I know that

28:16 that you know

28:17 might go somewhere else and activate a different power and stuff really cool interactive stuff that um it sounds absolutely amazing. I'm really excited about it. I've read the rule book recently and I can't wait to get my hands on

28:30 and I really like these things that that's got the game can be set up in different ways to be more advanced or more familyfriendly. So again, it's one of those purchase that you know you can play the same games with different kind of like like

28:43 and have a different experience. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It can be very very fun to play with with your kids if if you have kids or it can be really fun around around the table with with more experienced ball games. Um I I really love it as well. Beautiful production as always from Mighty Boards. Uh do go check out

29:03 but don't but don't pinch it. Just don't buy it.

29:06 Be like me. Go buy a copy.

29:07 Yeah. Don't pinch it. Pinch pinch. Pinch.

29:11 Don't pinch. Bye. One of our favorite games, I think you especially and surprising I I think and one that we were both late to the party to is of course the White Castle. And this is related to that game.

29:25 Yeah, cuz we're talking about the White Castle duel coming out to buy now. I was a on the dual things. I've been a little bit burned in the past cuz we burn people but there's been a lot of games this dual that attached to uh to famous like games

29:45 that didn't really work out very well cuz they tried to do the same game but um

29:52 yeah just

29:55 for this one um I was really surprised when it came out I was just like very skeptical again because of that then I started reading a little bit more and started seeing a few play through and something to say like okay no this this is this is a dual version of of of the white castle. So um if you play white castle before you know that is a very tight um dice placement dice work/worker placement uh where you just got a very few action you're going to do everything is really it needs to be really really well thought. Um, in this version of the game, you're not going to have dice anymore. And this is already the things that make me start thinking like, okay, I'm interested in the game. So, they're taking out that they they're changing that one of the main mechanics um to have this lantern mechanic. So, you play one of the two faction. You're going to have um a L certain amount of lanterns that are, if you remember, the the main games was the is a feature the the the lantern in the in the main game. Um but basically um um you're trying to get influence of course into the into the into the castle. Uh on top of that the games adds a new mechanics um that is related to to history. Uh that is when Portugal arrived finally in Japan and they they started trading with within each other. Um so what you can do as well now is going to be trading stuff that you can build with the Portuguese and you going to trains like flags, katanas, kabutos. uh all the all the the little dolls and and stuff like that.

31:27 So, it adds like um a different mechanics on top of that to the game. Okay. Um now putting all this together, uh I'm I'm I'm going to run to buy this one cuz it sounds super cool. I love the White Castle. It's not my favorite games playing just in two players.

31:46 It's better or four? Uh there are there are three additional rules that you do with the two players in the original game. You can still play it.

31:55 Uh but I feel this one's got more legs to be a better two-player version than the original one playing at two. I love the original one at three, but I love it even more at four play. That I think is the is the count. But this one, this version with these changes. Okay. Um, more more more more money more spending. Um, this one we're gonna spend money at the Osprey stand for the last game in in in a trilogy.

32:32 In a trilogy that explores ancient civilizations.

32:35 Yes. And we're talking about

32:37 AR Children of the Sun.

32:39 Children of the Sun. Sounds like a 70s rock song. does sound like, but it's actually about the Incan civilization. So, and this is um I mean I'm lucky enough to have played this. I have a a copy at my house right now, which I need to just try and find time for Matt to play. I have played it already. Um I think it's amazing. I think this is going to be one for me is one of my favorite games.

33:01 Okay, great. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

33:03 It is deep. It is interesting. It is fascinating. It has this brilliant selection.

33:09 We can play it as soon as possible. as soon as we don't have to actually have real jobs. So, check the page.

33:15 Check the page. Quick. Okay, there you go. But also, back to the back to the description. This game uses an amazing um action selection mechanism where you're going to be moving the the legendary AR brothers across uh like the the lands of the Incan lands. Uh and you're going to be activating different actions. And the actions basically take the place uh take the form of various sort of mini games. You've got a kind of tile placement thing. you have like an exploration thing. Um, you have a set collection game as well. Um, and you kind of want to do a little bit all of all of it because this game utilizes playerdriven scoring timing.

33:53 That's so cool.

33:54 So, it's really cool. So, if you don't plan right, this game will punish you,

33:59 right? And that's the kind of thing that anxiety I quite like about those Martin Wallace type designs where if you don't plan right, you get

34:06 you get punished for it.

34:07 Battered. So, some people likes it. Yeah, some people I like it. I like what can I say? And this game like uh because the players decide how the scoring happens and you can see publicly what's happening. Very strategic. So you need to have a long game and you need to prepare for when the scoring might happen and you can determine when that happens. There's so much cool stuff going on with that

34:25 in a beautiful production

34:27 with Tools. It looks beautiful. It's one of those things that you would probably want to get the board, get it framed and put it as a as an art. Yeah. Or the box art as well. incredible Iano doing amazing stuff with his uh great graphic design and his user experience stuff as well. Um a great rule set. Uh very interactive as well. Uh deep wide. Uh this is a very interesting game that I kept thinking about as soon as I played it. Um I think it's a tremendous one that you should go and check out and it's AR Children of the Sun. Children of the Sun.

35:02 Don't go away. We got more. We got more. If you still got a few pounds, a few euros in your wallet and or you just want to remortgage your house, we got more for you. We got more for you. Uh we're doing like a quick quick fire round. Quick fire. Just

35:19 legit quick fire.

35:20 Yes. Let's do Let's do very quickly a few games to give you a little bit of things. So, um I'm going to start with Compile Main Two. Uh, compile, one of our favorite one versus one card games. Amazing game. The the new the main two is going to bring two new protocols and

35:39 12 new protocols.

35:40 12

35:40 12 new protocols.

35:41 Yeah. And uh can be mix and match with uh with main one. Um so it's going to give you more compile. So that is um

35:49 nothing wrong with that. Or you you don't need to main one to play it. So it can be standalone as well. So more compile, more happiness,

35:56 more good stuff. Um, another one that is a reimplementation of a of another game is Everddale Silver Frost. Uh, now stay with me because Everale Silver Frost is a completely standalone game. It's not an expansion. It's going to set up been set up on this mountains uh, village and there is this very cool snow mechanics. source while you're building your like in Ever, you're still building your tableau, but the snow could cover some of the cards and you not letting you use the power, but you can use the fire to to melt the the snow and and use it again. Again, fantastic production with this um with this board like vertical border represent the mountain. Um I just found that maybe could be only in German.

36:44 I don't know. We will see. But it's if uh it's coming out in English anyway shortly. But if you're SM, check check it out.

36:52 Check it out. And if you're German, buy buy that.

36:54 Yeah, exactly.

36:55 We also have uh General Orders Sangoku Jedai. So this is another Osprey game. So this was a uh re a new version of General orders which was released last year. It's a very small very travelable one versus one worker placement war game by uh the uh Undaunted team. So, David Thompson, I think, and Trevor Benjamin maybe. But this is a really, really great, very interesting competitive game. Very puzzly, very thinky. Way more than meets the eye when you look at this game. Very, very good.

37:24 Yeah. And the difference from the original one that this is set up in Japan in Japan. So, uh this is going to be very very good or industrial revolutionary Japan if I remember. So, and it adds is still standalone. So, you you don't need the the first one. It adds like waterways and ships. So there's going to be there's going to be na naval fights as well. So that is really really cool. Um another game that is a new version of reimplementation is a junk cart revolution. That is the new uh version of Junkart. Junkart is um iconic dexterity. Yeah. It's the same team that did uh men at work.

38:01 Yeah. you you basically trying to build pieces of art depending on what the cards that you come out the come out will tell you to kind of like build this uh sculpture. Uh Junkart is one of the games that you can't find anywhere. It's really rare to find these days. Uh Junkart Revolution is is kind of like a 2.0 version of the of that game. So don't expect much much difference but it's a game that you can actually buy cuz Junk Card as a dexterity game is very highly rated because it's really really good. This is but this is a version that you can actually finally buy.

38:37 Absolutely. And if you really like heavy heavy games or you want to get your teeth into something then we have of course Ants. So it's one that people are talking about. It's a very deep strategy game uh focusing on a little bit of worker management and expanding your territories. Uh you've got six actions on your turn to pick from which is uh you can dig, you can explore, you can gather, you can incubate, you can play cards or you can try and defeat your enemies. Uh and then like in Lerta style designs, you have what Lerta calls executive actions, but in this game we've got free actions. You can do any number of free additional stuff on top of all the main actions. Uh and as well as that, uh you need to guide your ant colony uh through cycles of growth, victory. Yeah, this this is more and conquest. This is more on the heaviest side from Cranio Creation is uh but it looks super interesting.

39:26 You need a little bit more of there is a lot of meat there to to get into it. But if that is your that is what you Yeah, if that's your bag, this is could be one of the best game this year in terms of that heaviness but still very cool cool games. Plus, if you love ants best game. So Matt, that was our chat on some of the best games to spend money on, the things that you can buy 2021.

39:53 Much money, but oh no, you know what? You know what? Um, if you go back onto the video, you will see that on top right, top left, there's going to be the how much the the the games are selling or or allegedly whatever MSRP. Yeah. Um, why don't we say challenge for for you guys for the viewers. If you got let's say €150.

40:16 Yes. €150.

40:17 Which game are you going to buy? Let's say you only have €150 all games. Of all the list that we gave you, of all these games, pick the ones that will come up to €150.

40:25 Yeah, why not? Let's see. Let's see what we can we can spend up to exactly €150.

40:30 Yeah, let's see. Let's see.

40:30 Uh or tell us simply which other games that you want to buy cuz that is got so many

40:36 so much. And we missed a ton, I'm sure, cuz this is stuff that we're interested in, but you might be interested in different things. and I want to know the things that you're interested in. So, let us know in the comments below. Uh, and of course, if you've got a bit of spare money, any change,

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