Autumn - Playthrough & Review

hi everyone my name is Monique and I'm navine from before you play and today we're going to be doing a two-player playthrough of a game called Autumn yes this game is designed by Maria and Enrique Blasco and published by d games it is Autumn time and the leaves are falling and this is a two-player only game where we are trying to have the largest contiguous area of our leaves of our color right so I believe this is a part of a season series Bo says uh Four Seasons on it and I have covered the Winter game which if you wanted to check that out that's going to be up here and now we have autumnn so we're assuming two more are coming our way yeah so the winter one was all about snowflakes we were building them and then melting them and here leaves will be falling and so today as usual we are going to just teach the game as we play it I think because it's a very very quick game and then we'll give our thoughts at the end so we'll include time stamps in the description below now we just have to mention that this is a review copy sent To Us by deir games uh lastly if you like these kind of videos and you want to see more in the future please consider subscribing and with that we are ready to begin so if You' please direct your attention to the center of the table we're all set up here for a two-player game of autumn real simple setup yes and honestly also a very simple game yes so what we have here is a deck of cards I believe there are 18 including this one and they all just have variations of four squares of leaves and in this deck there are only two different colors of leaves there's the orange and the yellow and just so you know this is a one or two-player game so this does play solo so the first player is going to flip over the top card and I guess I'll just be the first player what do you think why not okay and then on your turn you're always going to place a card now when you when you place it you have to cover uh cards you can never tuck under and you have to cover at least one leaf up to two Max and that is honestly the entire game we're going to be going back and forth doing this and no rotating horizontal no rotating horizontal that is right you can go complete 180 but it always must be uh vertically placed so I'm just going to place this like this okay and now that naven is a second player before you draw your card nin gets to decide which color he wants to be okay uh I will be surprisingly light the yellow color you're gonna be yellow yeah I'm gonna go yellow oh all right should have positioned it differently I'm going to draw so uh basically I'm going to do this and then I'm going to do this I'm going to cover you up you're going down uh the goal of the game is at the very end once the cards are all run out you want to have the longest contiguous grouping of like type leaves right so we do calculate points at the very end you're going to uh identify the largest contiguous group and then it's one point per Leaf space and technically supposed to play this over the course of three games but I think today we're justes going to go sudden death what do you think simple one yeah just's a one one match winner stay home yes the winner stay home all right it is back to me you said you're yellow I'm yellow okay so I am the bright orange leav this is good looking I think let's just let's maybe try to go this way what do you think navine I don't like it so I'll do that I'm covering up two spes for leaves two of yours back to you yeah yeah no okay okay oh well there you go that's a nice that is card looking card plop that down right there wow H it is on okay still looks about tied right now so this is a 50/50 card I think I'm going to flip it around and do that all right back to you yeah yeah yeah okay oh oh I'm going to do that oh so these are two separate they are groups yeah but maybe now just maybe maybe oh no look that what are you going to do this is awful well seeing as both separate groups are about the same in size I think I'll just do this sure yeah all right gives you opportunity to cover it up later so I get it okay okay okay okay if I tuck this here that's not very good but if I tuck it here okay I'll go with that oh that's nice M we found our way to connect to all of it so good how do we disconnect this oh no it's just more of more yellow mine yeah that means more of yours are coming yeah it's true hm I've got to break in somehow I guess let's do that good spot yeah yeah and you broke up this little patch yeah so that was technically minus four I guess y instead of just two okay all right wow this is so much yellow oh no bring this in here that seems pretty good wow yeah let's do that so I'm only covering up one but I'm filling in the Gap here okay that's nice cuz you're making a nice thick column thick you can only cover two squares H that's okay I mean my problem is I'm not even connected anywhere time to make a connection all right well I think if I just go like this at least I can get something going this is looking real bad real bad all right well there you go that looks good for you but it's in your hand it is I could just cover up what you already have here it'll still gain me one burn well it'll gain you one oh it won't me anything it'll gain you one for this group but you only score your greatest group this seems like a good place to put that oh this is so bad that these all came out at the very end oh 5050 this stinks okay guess I'll go there yeah all right is a good one back to you right oh boy I you guess you still have your own I do have some good ones all right so if I go here then that would be a good play there we go if I go here I'm doing it yeah yeah it's only that's that's two spaces that's fine it's fine wasn't a part of my okay master plan your grand master how we disconnect you disconnect me I guess I can do something like this I don't know if this is still seen we're just going to go ahead and readjust and we'll be back all right I hope everything made survived the move I'm going to place this here I think or was it here here you don't remember what you're covering up one of your own huh are you trying to cover up one of your own actually I'm going to place it here okay so it at least removes these three mine off from you and it still um elongates mine the last two turns here yeah all right oh look at this one oh look that oh what are you going to do Tu it right here where it belongs fine please give me a bar oh bad luck I wanted to I was hoping that it would be a bar then oh yeah if you could yeah that would have been dangerous actually it didn't glad out I'm just going to place this here you're going to do some damage to me huh away two from my big groupings two pieces all right that is it that's it no more cards no more cards so let's count them shall we yeah let's just count mine first your biggest group my biggest group so this is a group of four five five that's it right diagonals do not count correct so this is going to be my biggest definitely so 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 that's pretty good yeah oh okay and then I have 1 2 3 4 five 6 7 this is still here 8 9ine 10 11 we tied we tied we tied 11 11 what are we going to do there's a tiebreaker we got to play another one yeah there's no tiebreaker because you're supposed to play three rounds and then you tally your score at the very end sure um but even then I still don't think this tiebreaker but shall we just play another one let's run it back one more more right why not okay we are reset this is a random card this might be the same card that we started with last time but it's just random I don't remember so we are going to switch uh I will be now first player so I will draw mhm I will place oh what do we do that's kind of nice yeah let's just do this there you go what do you want to be orange definitely you want to be orange okay all right you know I just want to things change it'll be easier to keep track of it I mean I think we just we do this right yeah makes the most sense yeah all right by give me something good there we go I wish I could do this but I can't I cannot Le maximum two two Le spaces o if I do this though I even though I'll cover myself up ah this is good let's do this let's just break that up nice okay all right back to me oh okay there you go now you have control of your own yes so I think I'm going to go here right I got to break you up here okay back to you what we got here this is stinky stinky um like that yeah I guess that's not looking too good but I'll take it okay oh oh gosh I think I'm gonna go here o all right I'm a gon I think I'm a goner why there's things can change nine can change can there we go get started oh things are changing wow the winds the winds are changing all right oh my gosh that's nice that's not I mean keep on keep on keeping on right keeping on keep on how do I break up how do I break you up all right ooh this looks good it looks good in theory but what do I do with it mhm yeah that's the question okay I'm going to tuck it over here let's get something going okay there we go so this is your your group right now that's my biggest group I mean yours is connect them I could um maybe I know I'm covering up one of my own spaces maybe just doing that might be this is just a fortress here I can't break that up you can't break it up wey no I know for a fact I know how it works oh man look at this okay let's just do this there we go nice there there yeah there you go that's how I felt in the last uh game that we I know my biggest one is four four your biggest group good yeah it's not good at all well here you are there you go Monique where is your biggest group so you have one it's a four here oh this is this needs to be tucked it itself is my biggest group I know that's what so you just have to move the biggest group somewhere else yeah right like I can't risk you connecting there oh this is I could break up your stuff there huh I know oh well I'm just going to do it yeah just do it it's still something time to grow ooh that's not good no it still makes that's better nice yeah that is better okay we have more of a square oh hi this F this went to my hands this time there it is I guess I'll just put this one here okay I hope that's still on screen one moment we are just going to move this let's move it all right and this is the last one that I played so covering up my stuff boom all right what do we got here I can't I can't score Beyond this that's that's hard oh okay I just have to do this just to break it up yeah that's a very very painful very painful move all right you broke off basically like five or six leaves y oo I guess I'll just place this here okay oh my gosh yours is massive getting bigger what do we got oh I think that might have been a mistake oh no might mistake I just I didn't realize let see if I put this here it's 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 gosh that was better than the 11 I did last time so I'll take it wow well it that is it the end of the game you already know n score so your total right now up to this point is 11 plus yeah 23 so let's just confirm this 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 yeah 12 23 okay I don't think I have that I have one here let's go down here 1 two three uh four 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 12 that's another time we're trying to just play one game now we got to play three just the way the the way the rule book says oh my gosh all right Shuffle up we'll do another guess we're doing the full thing maybe we can edit out that hole we're only playing one game we lie all right here we go so it switches back to me again same card same looking card showed up maybe that's the problem yeah we keep having the same card okay I will place this here let's just try what color would you like to be I I will be the darker one I will be the orange yes so I'll be yellow this time it'll be yellow this time okay so here we go oh yellow unbelievable okay I think I will just tuck it like this okay we'll see what happens and you're Orange right I am orange y all right well nice I'm just going to place this up here it's a good spot like that all right back to you okay let's see another one we're just burning through yours yeah that's bad all right let's just do this okay why don't we do that interesting oh there we go that's it there you go that's terrible okay I'm just going to go little up up Tuck up up cover an up cover yes all right ooh another one now the tables be turning that's better like that that's better all right so then oh these are always so tough all right I'm going to go ahead and place this over here just do that very you good okay okay oh I'm going to have to definitely do this oh no 100% oh that was a big go one of these yeah you fave man this is bad okay I'm going to go like this yeah break it up yeah it's going to break it a little bit I have no idea where I'm at I my score is four o this one if I do this that's good that's good that is good yeah we'll go with that okay oh we're playing this one much faster mhm seeing as my score is quite low um I think I should just focus on trying to take away from me take away right just do that that's a good one yeah that way I can look you have a you have a five 1 2 3 four five so far that's pretty good all right let's see what I'm going to get oh can I break you evil this is a good one yeah now your five is here oh this is bad this is so bad oh there you go I'm G to place this up here okay like that yeah I guess I think we're just at the limits there I hope that's still on screen okay very good I'm probably going to cover that up at some point there we go leave it alone leave it alone all right I'm just going to tuck this here okay yes you removed one but you added one for your okay so where are you gonna throw that away this stinks no you just throw it away yeah I got to throw it away yeah I'll throw it up here oh I can't rotate it in a way that it'll actually attach huh mm well depends on I guess if I do this yeah right yeah okay cool all right back to you last two cards last two cards oh so okay wait a second there's a way there's got to be a way Nan I think you already have it I think the way is now the way is here the way is here did you count your Le there we go actually there we go you're right the way is here the way is the way is here no ties come on ha the issue is your points are here in a square you can't you can't get there you know M you can't chip away at it so I guess I think the best thing is just to add the two leaves to my oh no that elongates yours it does I mean you can cover me up here add two to yours yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah there we go there okay okay it's done the whole we did all three games off the card so who do you want to score first sure okay we go 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 14 14 that's my best score so far wow right what do you got 1 two three four 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 that is it so the final scores are me with 35 35 to 37 37 you win you did it we took it to three though you were the best strategic Leaf uh ferer planner of the game and we did it we took it to three so that is actually a full game that is how you're supposed to play it yeah yeah what are your thoughts oh yeah well I like winter a lot so um that one was uh a game that was played in two phases where you kind of building out the lattice and then as the winter melt happens then you're just trying to hang on for a dear life um like we said there is a playthrough of that that we have done so we do encourage you to check that one out if you like these kind of games um I like this one uh in terms of which one do I like better I think I like winter more because of the two-part aspect of the game um but I do I do enjoy this one I think it's it you can definitely find yourself feeling like I'm crushed I only have a four and then all of a sudden the cards kind of turn in your favor which we kind of demonstrated in this game um so it's been pretty balanced every single time we play yeah I totally agree with that I really really liked winter because of the things that you just mentioned so the fact that it's two-part uh makes it so that you're planning things in the first half of the game that will affect the things in the second half of the game so the Str Str is just a lot more interesting uh with winter this one is really interesting because of the way that it is just so simple it's it's a very simple deck of cards the way that you play it it's the simplest game I've ever played maybe right totally yeah um could be yeah abstract wise abstract wise yeah this one uh you could even fit this like on an airplane I think if you if you play it horizontally you can actually get this on on to a tray uh on your flights or something like that um so this is easy to carry the the box is super tiny just like the winter one um really is just a deck of 18 cards it's almost like a like a button shy type of game where you can get a lot of different strategy out of just 18 cards and I think that is the heart and soul of this game you know it shines for its Simplicity but because of the reasons that we mentioned I do uh enjoy winter more but I still like this one yep so there's two more apparently coming out we're assuming uh because it does say the Four Seasons collection on the box so uh we still have a spring and summer to come out in the future we don't know when those will be coming out but um hopefully we can get our hands on it when they do and then we can do some playthroughs well there you have it that is Autumn uh we hope you enjoyed the video if you have any questions about anything feel free to leave them in the comments and as always if you like these kind of videos and you want to see more in the future please consider subscribing thank you thanks bye [Music]