Tag: medium playtime
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Kittens + Beasts (The Isle of Cats): My Favorite Expansions
One of my favorite expansions is Kittens + Beasts for The Isle of Cats. In Kittens + Beasts, kitten and beast tiles are added to the game (surprise, surprise). Kittens are smaller than cats, so they take up less space on your boat, enabling you to fill difficult spaces. Beasts want to be friends with…
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Viticulture World: Peaceful Game Series
Viticulture World is a cooperative expansion to Viticulture, a game about making wine in Italy. Instead of competing against one another like in the base version of Viticulture, players are working together to have the most prestigious winery in a particular region of the world.
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PARKS: Peaceful Game Series
PARKS is a board game where you are hiking trails and visiting national parks in the United States. The object of the game is to get the most points. You get points by visiting parks, taking pictures, and achieving personal bonuses.
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Sunshine City: First Impressions
In Sunshine City, you are moving your city away from being powered by fossil fuels over to solar energy. To do this, you have to build a certain number of solar farms (the number differs based on the game mode). When playing solo, Angus the anti-environmentalist is going to be working against you trying to…
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Wingspan Cooperative Variant: First Impressions
Wingspan is super popular and a lot of people have heard of it, but I’m not so sure if the cooperative variant is well known. The rules for it are in the Automa rulebook of the Oceania expansion. However, you don’t need any special components to play, so you could play it with the base…
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Everdell: Peaceful Game Series
Everdell is a board game where you are the leader of a band of forest critters tasked with building a city in the valley of Everdell beneath the ancient Ever Tree. On your turn, you will either be placing a worker, playing a new construction or critter card, or progressing to the next season.
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The Isle of Cats: Peaceful Game Series
One of the first things you interact with when you play The Isle of Cats is a big cloth bag filled with tetris-shaped cats. You need to take cats out of the bag in order to populate the island where they live. However, these are not ordinary cats.