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nice playthrough. i played it twice tonight. i got to 40 at 17th round and then the 16th round.

This is an awesome game, glad to see a game a family friend and fellow Voices contributor (Marcus Ross) worked on get more attention!! Great playthrough! Love seeing that you had fun. - G

Am thinking this will be my 1st LOTR themed game. Thx for this play thru!

Great video, Ruel!!

Wooo Rebirth!

I wanna see the pugs more 😊 pretty please

Thank you for playing and showing Neotopia! 😊 I am glad you liked it - André Santos

enjoyed this play through- it reminds me of BABYLONIA also by RK. Another lo ely game to look forward to.

I think you've slightly misunderstood the spawn a walker action (which occurs after you Explore): for example at 09:25 and 10:59 you were supposed to spawn a walker directly next to the location card you placed (if possible), and not add another survivor. Adding a survivor can only happen if it's not possible to place the card so that a walker is spawned at the explored location, in this case place that occupant card in any valid location - if no valid location to add after these options have been looked at then proceed to scoring.

Thanks for showing would love to see you explain more buttonshy games

Thanks for this teach/playthrough! One question - at around 11min after you explore, I believe the next occupant card that comes out because of that has to be placed adjacent to a walker side on the recent location - not any side?

All thanks to you that we found out about Trio-- or, well, Nana, the one you introduced to my dad. Great stuff! Love a lot of the other ones here, like World Wonders! - G

Had no idea SW DBG had solo mode.

Great content! Go Dodgers!

Cacao is on BGA with a good implementation, so it should be easy to find a game.

I just got this game. I am intimidated because people say the rule book is vague for those that haven't played Gloomhaven before - and I haven't. Thanks for the walkthru.

Thanks so much for the kind words, I was so pleased to see you got to play a copy of my very first game ever! It's so amazing that you enjoyed it so much, thank you so very much for all the kind words. I makes my heart smile that you ranked it above so many amazing games!

I’m hooked on Donuts on BGA.

Cant wait to see the playthrough of Star Wars deckbuilding solo.

So much fun chatting with you, Ruel! Hope you had the best May the 4th and Revenge of the 5th. What a magical weekend! I felt so much love for Star Wars this past weekend.

I can see a bit of a runaway leader scenario, but there are also some really big single round scoring things like the one that gives points for money so there seem to be SOME chances of coming back. The lack of any hidden scoring makes the endgame super easy, but also can lead to an anticlimactic win that is pretty known a few turns out. Not too bad for a short game like this though.

The barking was a bit annoying, but having pugs on cam makes it all worthwhile. love the dogs. Our Papillon is super loud too.

I have seen the seasons comparison many times and I agree with that in that it has that 'feel' thematically and somewhat in what you are doing. This is SO MUCH more streamlined though. I have had Seasons on my buy list for AGES, but every time I am about to pull the trigger I rewatch a playthrough and just find it too fiddly and feel that would keep it on the shelf. This game has VERY little barrier to entry. I could see playing this with nongamers easily as well. I also really want to bling this thing out with really pretty stones and a holder to underline the 4 stone limit. Want this game so much, it is in the Kohaku level of game that is just super easy to hit the table. Now to get my wife excited about it, because she is the person I would mostly be playing with.

Thanks for the video I find it very informative, a huge range of games. Old and new 😊

Looks like it hits the sweet spot of easy to play, quick, and beginner friendly. Plus, it has some interesting choices and decisions.

I like this game, but solo is a real challenge. Invest in a dice tray, it is really useful when streaming dice games.

I wanna play this soooo much just cuz !!!

I love this playthrough! The A.R.T. Project is one the favorites in our household. You did great considering how the game is, in my opinion, EXTREMELY HARDER solo... - G

I've been hoping to try Knarr. Hearing so many good things. Strike has become a great filler game for us - something we can pick up, go a few rounds, bring in non-gamers and knock out the game. Captain Flip is another one that I've enjoyed playing quite a bit. Thanks for sharing, Ruel!

Great play through!😊 I love this game, I would love to see you play Stardew valley solo!

Thanks for the nice gameplay video. I really like this game. I play this on BGA solo, controling two players (hotseat). It's a simple game with simple and quick turns, so it's really easy to play for two players at the same time. Sort of really interesting experience, trying my best in two different ways at the same time and seeing which strategy and tactics combination wins me 40 points first.

I’ve only played this on BGA but do enjoy it. I enjoy the tension of when to add another card vs when to break up a nice Viking engine for one of the top cards. This is an interesting solo mode. I like how it isn’t just a beat your score variant and keeps the “race” nature of the game. I wonder if it might add something to it if, instead of counting rounds up, you set a limit of rounds before the game adjusting for difficulty and count down each round to race against the clock.

Hi Ruel (TVivD here)! Thanks for showing a solo variant for this game! Knarr was a big hit with the Thinker-Themer fan group at Dice Tower West this year. Love that this is available for play on BoardGameArena - they need to add this solo option there as well!

You aren't done when you run out of cards. That is when you rest and you get all of the cards back from your discard pile and then lose one.

25:10 - You don't have wind available to consume, so you can't trigger the extra ability on Skewer.

13:27 - You used the bottom half of each card. Also, if you had been able to use the bottom half of Warding Strength to give yourself 2 shield, that stays active until the end of the scenario so you don't get it back into your hand.

Seems it does not add much as part of the expansion - it increases the player count to 6 and add the landmark cards which help in getting more points. I don’t see it enhancing the gameplay even by 5%. Seems just an add on for name sake.

Great game, great expansion and great playthrough

This is one of my favorite dexterity games. Big game experience in a small box. The tension of the big collapses just builds and builds as you play. Haha!

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Is it available to buy yet?

Angela is awesome! Congrats to the 2023 WSBG Champion.

1st mistake at 4:22 as you sell a dragon for the price of a fire creature. This mistake didn't affect the game as you would have spent the resources anyway 2nd mistake at 8:11 as you sell a dragon for the price of a wind creature. This mistake affects the game in a meaningful manner. not a mistake but at 10:52 you once again change the orientation of the families. setting up for the next mistake. 3rd mistake at 21:41 as you once again sell an animal for the wrong value. Maybe you should spend more time on learning a game before you stream a how to play.

Thanks for having me on! This was such a blast!!

Happy Birthday! 🎉

Happy Birthday! Fun playthrough! I've had the same bad luck on a first turn as well. This game seems like such a mountain at first that you slowly start get better at climbing over time. Hope you have fun with the other 2 sets!

I think you forgot about advantage/disadvantage and resting only takes places after playing all your cards twice (A side and B side)

This game looks like its a airplane tray table game. Cant wait to get my copy.

Love the Ruby Dooby do🙂