Board Game Wrap Up | 52 Games Played | August 2022 Board Game Reviews

forgot to press record okay are you ready me too do you like my shirt where's your shirt like this we could have been trained and yes here we are not being twins this sweater has a spot on it too yeah it's paint it's paint looks like poo but it's not i've i've noticed i've worn the sweater in the past and there's always the dot there and i've always wondered why no one's ever asked about it it's paint this sweater is like a towel i love this sweater we're together winners i was just been waiting for the sweater to one baby mine but he hasn't shrunk it yet so comfy i don't think he'll ever shrink it it's like wearing a blanket or a towel [Music] hello everyone and welcome back to foster the meatball a channel all about board games yawns yawns yeah you on a lot oh we are here today to do our monthly wrap-up and this wrap-up is for the month of august and what a month it was literally it both flew by and went very slow all at the same time how does that work how could it fly by but also what feels like it went by some parts went fast and other parts went slow i bet it's because the first part went by really fast because we were away we were traveling and now this second house been really slow because you're anticipating moving into the house yes we played a total of 49 games in the month of august 49 different games 73 plays couldn't get to 50.

apparently we're one game away geez louise just like usual we're going to fly through some of these games we've already talked about them numerous times we actually did an entire wrap-up of our trip to edmonton we didn't really dive into a lot of these games though so maybe we're just going to pick a few that we're going to talk about today and you'll probably see some others pop up in a future board game snapshots and plus other videos probably probably probably now i apologize in advance if we suddenly become quite bright like this we're sitting in front of a large window that doesn't know when to quit it's very bright the sun is i even put the curtains up and the sun is just like let me in i don't know what the solution is piece because we're sitting in front of a window and it just is what it is so the lights gonna fluctuate once again we are not professionals if you are here for professional quality you like professional quality videos you're in the wrong spot in the wrong spot let's get into the games we played we have been dabbling we have been a doing too much without further ado let's jump into it the games we played in august we played parade amazing yeah we didn't mention that in our the video where we talked about all our also wonderland games yeah that was our bad we played scout a classic a favorite in this house we played ahoy which we would talk about but we'll have stuff in the future in the future we'll have coverage on that in the future we played ripple rush five times i don't know how that has such a low rating on bgg people that's a fun little game let me tell you we played wild style which is a new game coming from pandasaurus which we did cover in a board game snapshots so you can go check that out i played inhumane conditions with ilia and that was a bunch of fun we played herbaceous and then we played hadrian's wall which is a game that we were maybe hesitant to try for more more so jeff than me because it is a heavy flipping rate i have a tendency to not overly enjoy super heavy roll rights and flipping rights so i was hesitant to try hadrian's wall but then we played and i was like no this one makes sense for some reason i didn't find i got lost in the combos right because three sisters i'm not directly comparing these but just give you an example of why i tend to not like them so much isn't three sisters you can have like bonuses that you can take at any point right and i always forget about them but in hadrian's wall everything's connected so you do everything in one flow it's not like oh i have this thing that i can do at some point but i'm not gonna do it right now i really like that so hadrian's wall is basically like this massive rolling right yeah with meeples that you take and it allows you to do certain actions and fill out certain things and you're basically just protecting a kin kingdom you're protecting a wall and you're kind of doing that on your own yeah it's a very kind very independent solo-esque experience even if you're playing with other people you're doing your own thing i also really enjoyed hadrian's wall i felt really overwhelmed when we first sat down to learn it there's a lot going on in this game and like three sisters fleet the dice game like that's my speed of rolling right this is definitely like a pretty big i think it is in terms of complexity three sisters to me is straightforward there's just a lot to track in terms of the combos and the bonuses this there's like freaking 50 different sections that you have to fill out so it's a lot i think this is one we might add to our collection yeah i think so too i do think it's good to have that's hadrian's wall then we played calico which we love botnick just one it's just a classic then we played athenian athena mystic library and i will just touch on this briefly um because it is a game that i was excited to play i think for me it's such a beautiful game essentially in this game like you are stacking books on a library shelf and it's all the books are like have really funny titles it's like mystic so it's like a fantasy type of world yeah i didn't enjoy it as much as i wanted to it was fine it was fine i think i feel like it should have been way better than it was i might have been cranky yeah i might have been in a cranky mood or something because like thinking about the mechanics of the game like it's very puzzly and you're trying to place like certain book types in certain kind of especially for you like that is i know that is your bread and butter i know i don't know something didn't deliver on yeah there was just something there's some something missing on it i don't know then we played star wars villainous which we covered in our most recent four game snapshots so if you want to hear more about that you can definitely go check that out then i played pre-histories with tyler and ilya and i still need to show that to you which i actually liked so much more than i thought i would and this is a game from 25th century there is a new expansion or new version coming out to kickstarter soon but anyways maybe more on that later because 21st centuries did send us that game for a review so then i played happy city which i loved it's freaking adorable and it's on bga so i'm playing it on bga right now as well we played oh hanami cute it's like economy ohanami i don't know why i can't say it we knew that then we played the uve trio we're only going to talk about one of them because they play all very similar we played nova luna which is the og then we played sagani which is the second and then we played framework which is the newest version of this type of game from uve rosenberg so framework is a very puzzly framework building game where you are trying to match up different frame types based on what the tiles are telling you to do so it's like this tile wants to have three brick frames adjacent to it adjacent to it in a line so you're building literally building out the framework based on the tiles you're putting but the interesting thing is you put that tile out that's asking you to do three bricks the next towel that you're placing that has a brick frame also has a goal yep so you're really just kind of building out this framework of more and more goals trying to achieve as many as you possibly can yeah you might want three bricks in a row but then you play two that need gold or steel frames and then those kind of get clustered and then you can't actually branch out i really liked all of them they're very good puzzly games there's also a drafting element to these games as well so you're drafting the towels that you pull out and in nova luna the difference was it's like the patchwork system yeah which i love i love patrick so i liked the like you can only pick so many in front of the little marker i think they're different enough to have all three but that's coming from us of course we we just got to catch them all so the biggest thing is if you're wondering oh which of these three games to get just get whichever theme you think is the coolest yeah i played the road to canterbury which jeff hasn't played yet so maybe we'll talk about that more once we've both played it then we played next station london which is a really interesting flip and right game where you're building out like subway uh like transit lines yeah in different colors it's also on bga so if you want to try it out definitely go check it out there i'm in a game of it right now i liked it i thought it was really fun we played quinto which is very similar to ripple rush but not quite as good that's my opinion there i said it i played deep sea adventures with ilia which is an oink game which i thought was really fun and then we played come together which is a new game coming out from chile fox games which is a work replacement game set at a music festival this game has a lot going on it's a lot heavier than i anticipated it to be and if you want to learn more about it tyler and ilya did an entire video on it go and check it out if it sounds like something you might be interested in i think for us we would need to play it more i think i liked it more than you did yeah it was fine more complicated than you felt it needed to be yep definitely there was a bit of nuance in the game i was like why did you have to make it this way yeah i guess yeah the theme is really cool though yeah if the theme didn't resonate super high with me i mean it's it's like uh i think it's supposed to represent like woodstock it was fine and i could see a lot of people loving this game i'm not trying to put a damper on it by any means it just was not for me i really liked it let me play delicious which is a new game from pencil first games another flip and right game i think we were lukewarm on it but yeah see if you don't remember it means you're lukewarm the garden then you had to draw the lettuce and draw the carrots in the wheelbarrow yes it was all right it was fine then we played alice's missing it's a one-shot rpg that plays in 90 minutes all through text it is about a 16 year old girl named alice who goes missing but you couldn't guess that from the title and everybody that's playing plays a different person in alice's life i think you either just like randomly select them or you pick which one you want depending on the group so i played alice's secret girlfriend jeff played her brother tyler played her best friend and ilia played a friend that had moved away the entire game is played silently through text messages where you're all like talking to each other about how else is missing and then you're getting trying to figure out what's going on trying to figure out what's going on and everybody starts off with a motive and a secret you have to tell a story about yourself which obviously you make up because it's a role-playing game and then you have prompts that show up throughout the game so like at 80 minutes there's a clock that kind of takes down 80 minutes one person has a card that says 80.

let's just say and they flip it up and it'll tell them a question or tell them something that they have to do yeah and then they introduce that scenario into the story we don't have a ton of experience with rpg games besides d and i think this has been my favorite rpg i really liked that it has a timer so you're literally only committing to 90 minutes yes you know that after 90 minutes this game is gonna end if anyone plays d d out there you know that sessions can run for hours and hours and hours and it's really cool because you get to just text and like you can just kind of like lounge around and be some somebody to be someone different for for 90 minutes and really get into character and recent funny moments we're in the group chat someone would say something funny or like and it's not like it's supposed to be and it's not supposed to be funny and everyone in the car in their rooms laugh like kind of like yeah because you're supposed to be silent and so what was really funny that happened in our scenario is like tyler started talking about these rocks that he keeps a bucket of rocks at his door to throw at people and then like we kind of got into it and someone's like oh my god he's here he's here and and someone was just like throw rocks at him where's and it was also really funny because like i said everybody gets a motive and a secret and kind of a little bit about themselves and jeff was supposed to be like this job was supposed to be this really supportive i was supposed to keep the group together keep the group together and all he did the whole time was like i don't trust you you're the way like i completely forgot like like prompt kind of thing it was really funny i really enjoyed it it was very very good and one thing that i also really liked about this is probably one of my favorite parts of the game is at the very beginning every person goes into another room and they record a voicemail message for alice and then at the end of the game to close it out everyone's voicemail message plays with this background music and it's just so thematic i don't know i was a little bit moved by it at the end yeah it's a beautiful it's a beautiful kind of story and it gets crafted incredibly well and i think if you have the right group that can really immerse themselves into this it will be one of the best experiences you'll have i agree i highly recommend it i'm definitely looking for a copy of this then we played almost innocent which we have a full kickstarter preview on if you would like to go check that out we played it four times we loved it spoiler alert then kanban ev which we have already talked about in our last board game snapshots played it twice loved it kin fire chronicles we talked about a little bit in a video with tyler and ilya you should go check that out that is coming to kickstarter august 30th whenever this video is out i i don't know it's august 30th we played circadians chaos order in asymmetrical alien-ish game yeah a bit area control bit i kind of put it in between root and scythe like somewhere in that kind of realm it was very good needs more than one play for me my faction was kind of cool but also i wanted to attack people enough i thought your faction was really neat i wanted to be tyler's faction because all he did was attack if i play again i'd like to be them we played wonderland's war a few times which we also covered in our last board game snapshot i played then with ilya i also played codel with ilya which was fun jeff and tyler played twilight struggle a little bit so that he could learn so that he could teach me i played about half a game of twilight struggle so tyler taught it to me oh my god it's so good i understand why this game was number one on the bgg for so long i'm really excited to play it with jamie yeah so so so so so so so good we played dead reckoning of course a new john d claire game which we did talk about a little bit in our wrap-up from when we visited tyler and ilya i want to play the game more before we do i think maybe we can add this into a board game snapshot later sure this it's just such a big game there's a new kickstarter stuff that's out now yep but it's very good then we played wizards of the grimoire which we have in our last board game snapshot so go check that out we've played cribbage oh i want to show this yeah so for jeff's birthday jamie got me a custom board a custom crib board it's beautiful made of wood and resin and it has metal pegs jeff loves crib we call him crib jeff you guys know that we've played crib now three times i've only ever played once before in my life and as you all know i'm not great at math you're getting another oh we played last night it was a close uh i won by three i'm actually impressed that i've been able to keep up as much as i have then we played a game called fine sand fine sand is a friedman freeze game that jeff found on a discount shelf i had mission fun and games tell the people about feinstein jeffrey sure yeah i don't know when it came out probably i think it's an older game which i always think is somewhat interesting to talk about fine sand is actually a deck deconstruction game so you're going to start with a set a set of cards essentially the game we played we had the exact same hands and ultimately the end goal is to get rid of as many cards as you can and you do that by playing them in front of yourself so you have a bit of a tableau and each card has a different color that allows you to do a different action it might be draw cards might be play a card it might be build a sand castle or whatever because ultimately you're trying to build sand castles in this game playing those cards into your tableau in order to get rid of them all so they all have numbers and values and those numbers the higher the value of the card the harder it is to play it in front of you because you have to pay the cost associated with so if it's an eight card you have to pay eight in order to play it in front of you and to do that you have to build out your hands so that you have more ability to pay for cards to play in front of you and the other thing that you can do is actually pass cards around to other players i would say this game would play best at like three to four yeah it was fine at two player but there's a mechanic in it where basically jamie and i just kept trading cards back and forth so it kind of eliminated that as being like a variable in the game but i really enjoyed it i really loved the cute little like you'd see artwork the sand castles were super cute the little like workers and trucks were very cute i've not played anything like it yeah it's different it was his games are always different yeah it's very different i recommend checking it out if you are at a border game cafe and have a copy or whatever i i enjoyed it way more than i thought it would i bought it on a whim i was like oh freeman free is 10 15 games i just think that like there's something a little bit special about his games i don't know what it is i get that feeling too like yeah whenever we played fujiflush i always have a really good time playing fujiflush they always feel like comfort food yeah like comfort food games yeah for some reason i would agree with that we also played the whatnot cabinet with ilia was the last game before we left that we played before we left edmonton you don't remember it again there's a turtle in my cabinet yep then we played bunny kingdom which has been sitting on our shelf of shame for for no reason a year it was so easy oh my god so it's a richard garfield game and another area control game and you've been playing a lot of area control games yeah we have you're controlling areas with your little bunnies and you're building up kingdoms basically and it's on like this grid so you're playing different cards that are giving you like a specific location where you put out your little bunnies or allowing you to build your castles or collect resources it's a card drafting game like you are literally taking a card passing it taking a card drafting majority area majority makes more sense yeah you score your biggest areas by your castles which are your defense basically by how many resources you produce it's just a big point scorer yeah massive point scorer and it's very cute we played it too i would not recommend playing this actually we kept to our own size less interaction yeah if anyone's played area majority or area control games you know probably that they don't play super well at 2.

i would like to play this with jason and acacia i think acacia would like this game it's a very very very good game then we played harold county or harold county four times not gonna say anything about it coverage coming you'll see coverage coming we played claim twice which is a fun little creepy trick taking game that we now love we got to play merchants cove again which i freaking love that game it's very good you've haven't changed factions i've only ever played the blacksmith i got to play the oracle and i really liked her i don't know i have a hard time because i really love the blacksmith yeah i played uh three games of ugly at least three it may have been more that i didn't record but ugly griffin which is a solo button shy game i think we will be making a solo game video soon so i'll talk about it more then then we played flick of faith which was sent to us from awaken realms light yes a dexterity game and area control dexterity game it is so much fun it is so silly it is one of those it gave me similar vibes to camelot oh yeah if you have four people and you want to just have nonsensical laughter that's a game to play oh my god there's there's these cards that come out that change the dynamic of things so basically in flick of faith you have this big beautiful neoprene mat with all of these different areas on it that you're trying to flick your discs into in order to have represent majority in order to score points but there's asymmetric characters yeah with asymmetric characters though then there's these cards come out called laws and these laws break the game yeah so normally you'd flick one disk at a time but a law might come out be like now you have to flick three disk stacks onto the neoprene mat and it just becomes nonsense like hilarious the cards are incredible when you vote on those laws and yes yeah the group would vote so you pull two laws you breed them and then the top law the bottom law gets voted just like caesar used to do yeah but then there's also an expansion that they also sent to us called apocalypse and the cards and the laws in that game are just nonsense and it comes with a ramp yeah it's just pure chaos like we had so much fun i'm so so happy that we got to experience it i don't hear anyone ever talking about this i threw it up into our discord and then there was like a handful of people that reflected everything i stated yeah they're like oh my god we had so we have so much fun playing this yeah it's like just a fun like silly version of crocodile with and i just love it because it's all like different types of gods so like there's zeus or there's egyptian gods or there's a mayan god it's so much fun i had a literal like how much fun was i having yeah i was having literally the best time it was awesome this is an easy one to just flick some discs around while you have a drink and yeah and chat and have a couple laughs i loved it yeah i really loved it it blew me away i did not expect that then we played over boss because sometimes you just got to go back to your old favorites and i lost and i hated it i played on a rim three times which is a solo game once again talk about that more when we go into those solo games but i really liked it we played mushroom sorcerer which will have a full review coming soon and then last but not least we played dominant species from gmt and let me tell you something i thought this game was about dinosaurs and it is not about dinosaurs there's no dinosaurs in the game just as an fyi we'll both have lots to say about this i'm sure but all i wanted to say about it to start is that i was very intimidated to learn this game because it's a gmt game if you are afraid to try this game do not be the rules are simple the rules are very straightforward this is a game of action selection and execution and where the difficulty of this game comes in because it's rated like a four plus on bgg 4.04 is within the strategy of the game but if you are intimidated to pick up dominant species to learn it do not be afraid i would compare it quite equally to a game like feast for odin where i think a lot of people see feast for road in and see how big it is and how many action selections are and be like oh that game's so heavy at the base level of it of the mechanics of it piece of rodent is very simple you're literally just picking actions and doing a thing where it becomes difficult is in order to score effectively and be strategic and understand what all the little nuances are in the game that's where the difficulty comes in but jamie taught me dominant species in 10 minutes how long did it take you to learn it half an hour maybe not even as long as they told me to read the book dominant species is absolutely incredible so where jamie said like there's no dinosaurs it's more so like worse it's like reptiles amphibians arachnids i think there's a food chain yeah there's no specific mammals species there's yeah there's no specific animals all species and you're just trying to spread your species around this board certain geography types because the map is earth habitats are more valuable than others like the sea is super valuable so if you can control the c and dominate the c you'll score a bunch of victory points at the end of the year another area um we played it too i'm glad we played it i wouldn't recommend it at two i can't wait to play this up it would be more radical at four i think i would love to play it at six to have to see how all of the different animals interact with each other but i think four is probably your sweet spot again gmt is one of these publishers that continues to knock it out of the park for me and dominic species was another one that just i i'm enamored with it i'm really excited to play marine i can't say enough good things about this and that's us playing it at two players which is not the ideal player count jeff absolutely crushed me because i didn't focus on the right things however there is so much to explore within this game strategy wise and that would change for every animal that you use so i played mammals jeff played as the reptiles i think the mammal faction or whatever would probably play better in a higher player game same as the birds same as the birds the iraqis the arachnids seem a little bit overpowered yeah the arachnids have a free like kill action basically a free action that's super yeah i've heard i've read that the arachnids are a bit uh op i don't know if anyone's ever said op i'm sure they are op but a bit different difficult to defeat i wasn't expecting to love it so i just think it goes to show what you can do with like really good mechanics yeah i would i would last thing i want to say quickly i would recommend trying to learn this with other people that don't also know the game i could see a new person playing this game with someone who knows it really well i'm getting absolutely it's amazing the only thing i wish is that it was cute i'm gushing over it but it's it's not cute so those are all of the games that we played in the month of august we are hoping that september will also be flush with games i want to play a bunch today me too we're going to stop filming and we're going to start playing it's what we're going to do we're gonna do another video and then we're gonna start playing those are all the games let us know down below what you think about the ones that we played you've played them we'd love to know all that good stuff if you're interested in buying board games like any of the 49 that we talked about today you should first start by checking your friendly local gaming store and for us that is quarter game cafe yes it is that is all we have thank you so much for watching if you like what you see please subscribe we hope to see you again soon and now we say goodbye goodbye [Music] sure i feel like this is really high up isn't it whatever and it's just worse because of the curtain do you think maybe because the curtains are very 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