Sad to not see MEADOW on the list at all. Fantastic open drafting tablue builder with hand painted beautiful art, high replayability, and actually educative gameplay as animal placement requirements teach you about food chain or just nature in general, like Grassland - Caterpillar - Butterfly - Spider - Bird, or House - Fence (so you have a garden) - Birdhouse (if you also have a bird in your tablue). You build columns of cards, a new card bringing a new icon but also covering an older one, so you have to manage your available icons all the time because those determine what you can play from your hand, and that determines what you should draft from the open draft coordination system. Super simple family game, a true treasure not mentioned anywhere... but damn Draftosaurus takes a place.
Thanks for talking about Earth and rating it that highly, with all those great titles this is such an honour! I do agree that Life of the Amazonia is amazing as well, it's one of the best games I discovered in 2023. Seeing your top makes me think that we would like to game together, I literally own almost all of the titles you've talked about and enjoy them a lot :) Cheers from Canada!
I'm very much enjoying the diversity of themes that Wingspan has encouraged. It's helping change the face of our hobby, bringing people in who were turned off by more traditional themes (war, high fantasy, space, zombies, etc), whilst there's still no less choice for those that do like their traditional themes.
Jānis G, Civilisation has similar card system to Ark Nova. My favorite nature game has plants, bugs, cats, lions, dogs, turtles, dinosaurs, birds, fish and snakes. It is called Twilight Imperium IV.
I love your videos, i would love to see a gameplayvideo with dune imperium uprising with you guys! Or just more gamplay in general. You always make me so happy with your videos ❤️ keep up the good work!
Ok, so I didn't unsubscribe from your channel, but apparently I am unsubed? I'm very confused. This is the second channel I've seen this happen with this month. Resubscribed!
It can't have been easy to make this ranking, with how many games sometimes sell of with their cuteness and letting animals do typical human things. That being said I am surprised you didn't narrow down the criteria to effectively exclude these games that anthropomorphise non-human animals. Creature Comforts I've never heard have but looking at pictures of snowshoes and houses doesn't sound like it puts animal biology and ecology in the centre the way Earth and Wingspan do. Everdell doesn't convince me for the same reason, even if it might be fun strategising. Draftosaurus and Ark Nova are in a weird place because they still revolve around the anthropocentric perspective of managing the locking up animals for entertainment, but I prefer doing that in fiction over real life. What I'm saying is that I would have loved to see more games that a new person to the hobby like me, might consider playing that mix entertainment with education, learning about the symbiotic processes in nature through play
Great list guys, thanks. As you were talking about Ark Nova, I was hoping you'd mention our only complaint with the game. Right now it's our favorite game, having played it at least 10 times in the past two months. The one issue? Cards don't describe the animals, like they do in Wingspan. What a wasted learning opportunity! If they printed a set with animal descriptions, I would buy that. Thanks for the reviews. You guys are great.
You guys should try Meadow. It may kick a title out of the top 10 for sure 😂
YES.
Sad to not see MEADOW on the list at all. Fantastic open drafting tablue builder with hand painted beautiful art, high replayability, and actually educative gameplay as animal placement requirements teach you about food chain or just nature in general, like Grassland - Caterpillar - Butterfly - Spider - Bird, or House - Fence (so you have a garden) - Birdhouse (if you also have a bird in your tablue). You build columns of cards, a new card bringing a new icon but also covering an older one, so you have to manage your available icons all the time because those determine what you can play from your hand, and that determines what you should draft from the open draft coordination system. Super simple family game, a true treasure not mentioned anywhere... but damn Draftosaurus takes a place.
Thanks for talking about Earth and rating it that highly, with all those great titles this is such an honour! I do agree that Life of the Amazonia is amazing as well, it's one of the best games I discovered in 2023. Seeing your top makes me think that we would like to game together, I literally own almost all of the titles you've talked about and enjoy them a lot :) Cheers from Canada!
The game is Life of the Amazon, but it's not available in Brazil (where most of the Amazon is) ): it's hard to like boardgames and live in Brazil.
I'm very much enjoying the diversity of themes that Wingspan has encouraged. It's helping change the face of our hobby, bringing people in who were turned off by more traditional themes (war, high fantasy, space, zombies, etc), whilst there's still no less choice for those that do like their traditional themes.
Meadow is my first one. Forest Shuffle, Harmonies and Parks were missing, but good video!
Meadow and Forrest shuffle were definitely missing from the list, but it's a good list.
Root :)
just cute animals hanging out in the forest)))
True, Root is about nature, human nature. 🧐
@@viljums XD
Jānis G, Civilisation has similar card system to Ark Nova. My favorite nature game has plants, bugs, cats, lions, dogs, turtles, dinosaurs, birds, fish and snakes. It is called Twilight Imperium IV.
dudes, where's PARKS? it's such a gorgeous simple clever game with the best theme!
I love your videos, i would love to see a gameplayvideo with dune imperium uprising with you guys! Or just more gamplay in general. You always make me so happy with your videos ❤️ keep up the good work!
Ok, so I didn't unsubscribe from your channel, but apparently I am unsubed? I'm very confused. This is the second channel I've seen this happen with this month. Resubscribed!
Playing fast and loose with the definition of nature games there 😅 Surprised at the lack of mention of Root though! Are you guys not fans?
Guys...the best from there is Forest Shuffle. You just forgot it...😂😂😂
Try it...
only one I haven't played is Life of Amazonia, have to check that out. Thanks for the reccomendations
Ummm Parks?
You should try Paleo and Root. Great games, what also looks cute af.
It can't have been easy to make this ranking, with how many games sometimes sell of with their cuteness and letting animals do typical human things. That being said I am surprised you didn't narrow down the criteria to effectively exclude these games that anthropomorphise non-human animals.
Creature Comforts I've never heard have but looking at pictures of snowshoes and houses doesn't sound like it puts animal biology and ecology in the centre the way Earth and Wingspan do. Everdell doesn't convince me for the same reason, even if it might be fun strategising. Draftosaurus and Ark Nova are in a weird place because they still revolve around the anthropocentric perspective of managing the locking up animals for entertainment, but I prefer doing that in fiction over real life.
What I'm saying is that I would have loved to see more games that a new person to the hobby like me, might consider playing that mix entertainment with education, learning about the symbiotic processes in nature through play
Where is Isle of Cats??
draftosaurus???!!!????!!!!
yes!
Great list guys, thanks. As you were talking about Ark Nova, I was hoping you'd mention our only complaint with the game.
Right now it's our favorite game, having played it at least 10 times in the past two months. The one issue? Cards don't describe the animals, like they do in Wingspan. What a wasted learning opportunity! If they printed a set with animal descriptions, I would buy that.
Thanks for the reviews. You guys are great.
That's exactly why we put Wingspan in such high up the list. The animal descriptions are great addition.
Wow, exaxtly half of the games on the list actually are Nature games, good job guys! 😂
Cascadia would be my number one.
First! :)