OFPG - Garden Club & Petal Preview (Get a Green Thumb!)

Hi everybody. I'm Stara. I'm Nick. >> And we are Games and welcome to our preview of Garden Club and it smallbox companion Petal sponsored by Chris Couch Games. >> Now family, these games are going to come out on Kickstarter on March 24th. So be ready to be doing some gardening. Now, here's Stala with an overview of both games.

[music] In Garden Club, players compete to grow the most beautiful and wellbalanced garden [music] in the neighborhood. With each tile you place, you'll arrange fruits, vegetables, and flowers into pleasing combinations that form lovely patterns and earn points. On your turn, you'll choose and place a tile into a shared garden, connecting matching icons to create combos and complete special objectives.

Then you'll select one tile to serve as a point multiplier for the features in your own garden. Thoughtful planning matters as every placement can create new scoring chances or prevent the perfect harvest. As your garden flourishes, you'll score points for completing arrangements, surrounding trelluses, and meeting your character's unique preferences.

Match, grow, and outloom your friends in this charming light strategy game. Petal is a delightfully competitive card game where you and a rival florist race to create the most charming flower shop in town. Each round, you'll build a shared window display of beautiful blooms, creating eye-catching arrangements for customers while carefully planning your own route to victory.

[music] >> All right. This is garden club. >> Yes, it's garden club. And we garden. >> We are garden. >> We are gardening. We are in the garden and we're harvesting, too. >> That's right. And you know, the theme really does come out. And the theme, you know, the whole game just talks about how you you're in the garden and you're harvesting fruit.

So, the theme does ring out. >> Well, not only fruit, but there's vegetables and you have beautiful flowers in the garden that you can use to make patterns and make your garden look beautiful. >> So, you're in the garden. >> Yes. >> You're in the garden and got the pretty flowers. Yes. >> And you know that goes to the artwork where the artwork is so nice.

Now, this is a prototype, so it it might even be better. But, you know, how you know, you're working with everything that's in a garden, like the trelluses that you put up, and you know, you have, you know, the uh the tools that you I mean, all the tools, the gloves, the spade, the, you know, the uh you know, the shovel.

I mean, everything comes into play that you would have in a garden is in this game. >> And it's very thematic. I mean, you're going to immerse yourself in the theme just from the beginning when you see the beautiful green colors and the colorful flowers and the fruit and the fact that you've got to place a tile in the garden in order to [clears throat] harvest something.

So, you first you got to place, then you can harvest. And I think that's great. >> It is a really strategic game. And you, you know, you look at how colorful it is and how beautiful it is and like it can't be that strategic, but it is. It is. >> It is. Don't let Don't let it fool you. >> But, but that's what I love.

I love a game that looks simple. Yes. >> But then it surprises you because once you start playing, you think, "Oh, I'm just going to put a few things in the garden. I'm going to collect some things." Then when the first round is over, that first season, and you're like, "Wait, I didn't do enough. I should have done more so I can get some more points, you know?" So then that next round, at least for me, I was going after trying to get more points, trying to get more things harvested so I could multiply my points at the end of that next season.

And and I like that cuz it fooled me the first time. It really did. And now the components are really nice, but I know this is just a prototype and you know the the cubes that are on the board now are going to be changed and you know some other things will be changed but for right now it is you know the potential of what we're going to see in the in the main you know game is really really nice >> and I love the double layer boards for harvesting and then these beautiful tiles.

You got your beautiful little fruits and you put them in their little place where you're harvesting >> where you're harvesting. You got the beautiful flowers that you use these to make patterns. So if you're trying to do something, you want to try to match the fruits and try [laughter] to make patterns with your project cards.

So it really makes you work at not only are you harvesting fruits and vegetables, you're trying to make patterns so you can get more money. I mean, excuse me, more points. More money. [laughter] >> So I feel I really feel like I'm selling my fruits and vegetables, you know, so get more points at the end.

And and I like the way that all works together. >> Yeah. And you know the the good thing about it is that it it it's a quick game. >> So So after you get through, you can play enough time and you want to play another time. Say, "Wait a minute." You know, I I need to play. >> I could have done something better.

>> I could have did something better. >> Especially if you lose, you want to play again. You want to rematch. See if I can do something different. >> And you want to always try to harvest and put the You know, it's a puzzle. And that's what is so cool about it, family. It's a puzzle that you're trying to figure out, you know, and trying to figure out better than your opponent.

And it's and you know, like it it makes you keep thinking and I like that. I really do. >> I remember the first time we played it, I didn't use any of my tool cards. I was like, I don't really need those. I I can do something else. But then I realized I I do need these. And then the next the next season, I was really collecting tool cards cuz I wanted to do more with it.

Be able to move move tiles around or turn them around. And it it really and truly gives you that whole feeling that you're in the garden. You're you're making decisions that's going to be better for your harvest for your plants and and vegetables. So, yeah, I love the way the tools work >> and I I love how the project cards give you, you know, two chances.

Either, you know, trying to match the the patterns of the flowers or how many pairs of fruit that you have in there that you can score off of. So it kind of makes you kind of think what do I need to do to get myself around this board quickly and get to these different spots that give you other project cards or you can choose you can choose between you know I'll get a project card then your opponent will get the other thing you don't choose.

So I'll say okay I want a tool your opponent gets a project card but those tools do work a lot sometimes to help you out you know and it just like you know moving things around to kind of make your your position stronger and I do like those. And then look at these trelluses. >> They are really, really cute.

>> How cute is that? >> And I hope they stay for the, you know, for the final or they might even get better. >> And they're wooden. >> They're wooden. >> I love it. And you put your little trellus out to multiply your fruit. >> Yes. You multiply it. Or if it's not a fruit on one side where it's blank, you then that now is fruit or vegetable.

>> Our vegetable. Yes. And what's so cool about it, through the seasons, you get more trelluses. And that's that that's really strategic because it also locks in those two tiles and you can't mess with them. >> Can't mess with that season because you know some of these, you know, some of these tool cars, they mess with the tiles.

They mess with them. But when you lock them down, they ain't going nowhere. Yeah. So that's also cuz I I remember one time we played and we had our trelluses out there and I wanted to move something and I couldn't move. I'm like I said, I want to move but they're locked. That's right. >> And I couldn't do nothing.

You got to think about that before you put that trellis down. Yes. And even for me, you know, I was like, "Dang, why did I lock that in?" You know, cuz I was so rushed to, you know, get those fruits and I said, "Wait a minute. I locked it in. I couldn't turn it and I needed to turn it or, you know, flip it." So, yeah, sometimes you got It makes you really think of what you need to do.

>> It does. And what I love about the harvest over on your board at the end of the season, if you have the most >> Yes. particular fruit or or vegetable uh in your little harvest bins of your opponent, then you can collect for it. So, if he and I both only have one, they zero out. You don't collect those points.

But, if I have two and he has one or if I as long as I have more than him of that particular fruit or vegetable, then I can get points for that. And I like that cuz that makes you kind of strategize on what fruits and vegetables do I want. So, I start looking at my opponent looking what does he have?

What does she have [laughter] that I need to go eat more of >> or or or try to get another fruit of vegetable? And then the other thing is that once you do have the most, you can get a multiply. So instead of just one, you know, just one times, you know, what you get out there in the field, it goes to two, then also three times what you get.

That's really multipliers each season. So yeah, this game again, it's cute, it's colorful, it's fun, and the strategy may seem hidden in the beginning. >> Yes. >> And you think, "Oh, there's no real strategy here." There is because you have to learn how to maximize where you place your tiles, where you place your trelluses, and do that better than your opponent.

And it's a wonderful two-player game. It gives you just enough meat to where you can kind of really have a battle with your opponent, but it's also to me a friendly game just because it's so pretty and you know it's about gardening and all that. It's kind of very friendly. But I I love the battle and what's and what's so cool about it, it's going to be variations through this so you can keep on playing.

It's going to be advanced, >> you know, so you can play some advanced play and then also a solo. >> So you can play, you know, I can play by myself. She don't do solo. I do solo. So I can do that. But it's so much that's going to come in that you can keep on playing. And that's so cool. >> And this is Petal.

>> Yes. >> Which is a companion game to Garden Club. Similar to Garden Club, but distinctly different. >> And you're really focusing on flowers now. Flowers. >> This is the thing cuz you're trying to be a florist. That's right. >> So, we don't have any vegetables or fruit. We have flowers. And you're really trying to use your little cards here, your little clipboards, and try to really see, you know, and count how you can put together clusters and, you know, just flowers right in your the tableau cuz it was a 4x4 tableau that we're going for.

>> And you're just putting flowers together, you're trying to match the blooms, trying to figure out how can I turn it to match it to make it work. And sometimes it's not easy. >> It's not easy. It's not easy. >> Sometimes not easy. You got to flip and like, okay, do I need, you know, the do I need the points or do I need to turn that over and see what I need to do?

>> You always want to try to match at least one. >> Yes. >> So, there you go. I've got one >> matching. And that and that helps you, you know, it really helps you cuz either you're trying to get, you know, the white flowers are going to help you or maybe one of these patterns that can help. So, you're really trying to build cuz you only got a 4x4, you know, to try to win and try to be the best florist out there.

>> Well, the best two out of three. >> Yeah. Each round you get a chance if you've got the most points then you get a chance to put your flower >> in the window. >> And what's so cool, you have these uh you know the folks with aprons on that give you a little bit of special powers that kind of help you you know in the you know in the with the flowers you know they kind of help you move around some stuff or or you know move things away and that's more strategy for you.

So this is it has the DNA >> of garden club but you know it's it own game. >> It's a different game. Yeah, it's his own game. >> It's a different game and and I love that. And it's one of those games again, it looks simple on the outside, but once you start playing it, you start figuring out ways to strategize on how to, you know, out maneuver and outwit your opponent.

And I love that about a game. >> And then also, it is beautiful, too. >> It is. It is really the artwork is just gorgeous. >> Yes. And how you can put together the flowers, you know, in the, you know, the, you know, the 4x4 tableau. I mean, it's really interesting how you can do that and how everything kind of comes together a little bit and how you're still doing that puzzle.

You're doing a puzzle. It's a combined puzzle that you're trying to make that puzzle look better for you. >> That's right. >> And that that's really that's a lot of fun. That's a lot of fun. >> Yes. So, this has been Garden Club and Petal. >> Yes. Now, family, don't just take our word for it, family.

Check it out for yourself. See if your family or game group will like it. Now, this is going to be on Kickstarter again on March 24th. And if you're looking at it, it's probably already going. So, definitely definitely take a look at these two really cool games. Now, Stala, where can you find OPG out there with all this flowers and fruit and everything harvesting going on?

>> Well, if you're looking for our family plays games, you can find us on Facebook, Instagram, Blue Sky, Threads, Tik Tok, on our website, and right here on YouTube. >> Right here. Now, family, thank you so much for coming out for our preview of Garden Club and Petal sponsored by Chris Couch Games. Now, if you have any questions or comments, please put it down below.

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