Jay, you're a great presenter and I wish more people would experience your videos. Heading to Taiwan in 2 weeks so watching your "Best of..." vids has been helpful! Do you have any leads on the best board game shops in Taipei to find these gems?
陽光 is where you wanna go. They have two locations. Taipei though has over 1000 bg cafes. Just Google 桌遊 and you should find plenty. You’ll get the best deals on Shopee though, which is an e-commerce site. You could also contact publishers directly. I’d recommend doing so on FB for the fastest response 👍
18:15 NO WAY!!!!! I made the comment that the publisher of Dadaocheng probably also did Formosa Tea and I wasn't going to look it up, but wait and see, and boom I was right. I had never heard of this game, and The Dice Tower did a best board game covers bracket video and this game was in there, and did very well. Literall watched that video and found a copy to buy. Sadly still haven't played it.....BUT I can't wait too! Very excited.
I was really impressed with how smooth the gameplay felt and how smoothly balance of popularity and pollution were integrated in to the gameplay. Great game.
Hey!! I own 5 in this section too! 8,7,6,5,1! Ok, technically 4 since one hasn't delivered from kickstarter yet....and one we just got at Gencon and there may be an unboxing going up on my channel this week! 😊
@@CardboardEast Nice. Hopefully it will be released here after TMG closed. I'm so glad I picked this up when it was still available. Also, I appreciate your replies on the BGG forums with rules clarifications. :)
@@CardboardEast hi thank you for the reply. i have a lot of the asian games. and a few of them i can not understand the rules, so they become unplayable. for roundhouse i know the rules but somtimes i forgot a specific thing. and the specific thing is not clearly mentiond in the rules and then its gues work.. even asking it on bgg does not always help. well if i have a question about roundhous i gues i could ask you. a other thing about roundhous, i wanted to get expansions but there unoptainable. my main source of asian games is Essen. are you gona be at essen this year? if so, hope to see you there.
@@Dawn_Mage Sadly I will not be at Essen this year, but if you want the expansions for Round House I’d suggest reaching out to EmperorS4. They may have some lying around their office. I’m sure they’d be more than happy to sell them to you.
these top 10 is amazing!!! i make learn modern games to my wife with Round House (if i remember it was our really first game together), she loved it , my Mini Express is still in Taiwan in family in law house, fot mini WII, im waiting the new edition with Total Domination , Joraku is a must have like Hanamikoji, Electropolis, Formosa Tea and Pathogen are games im really interested.
I have a special place on my shelve for boardgames from Asia. Here in Europe it's like pure economics when it comes to boardgames. I get a more energetic vibe from Asia, more passion and love for the boardgame. @@CardboardEast
The best part is that games from Taiwan are SOOOOOOO much easier to find than games from Japan. Also, Taiwanese publishers often license games from Japan!
Excellent question! Worthy of its own list! Jiangnan & Mini Express both have AI bots allowing you to play solo with multiple players. Rescue Polar Bears is a coop game, so it naturally lends itself for solo play. Not featured in my Top 20, but I’d recommend Pocket Master Builder as a strong solo game.
@@CardboardEast Well, it seems that the rules I have are the same, unless I'm missing something. I went to the link, clicked on the most upper (recent) file, and I read it all with the rules I have in my hands. I see the "Score Victory Points" section is slimmed down to simply say, "score one point for each tile the new one is connected to" which is probably the change you are mentioning. There is a visual change regarding step 7 of the setup, and the tiles on my copy are shown face up, even though it says to ranomly place them. And in the BGG file the tiles are facedown. If that is it, then thanks for sharing!
@@robertcrist6059 That’s it! If you read the description of the pdf you downloaded, I believe Tony (the designer of Iberian Rails) wrote the changes down there.
5:28 sparks joy for me. I apologize for my childish editing. I could not help myself.
Hello from Chile, i LOVE Formosa tea.
Awesome!!! Hello from Tennessee!! Then, you’ll be happy to know there’s a 2nd Edition coming to Kickstarter this year!!
Jay, you're a great presenter and I wish more people would experience your videos. Heading to Taiwan in 2 weeks so watching your "Best of..." vids has been helpful! Do you have any leads on the best board game shops in Taipei to find these gems?
陽光 is where you wanna go. They have two locations. Taipei though has over 1000 bg cafes. Just Google 桌遊 and you should find plenty.
You’ll get the best deals on Shopee though, which is an e-commerce site.
You could also contact publishers directly. I’d recommend doing so on FB for the fastest response 👍
18:15 NO WAY!!!!! I made the comment that the publisher of Dadaocheng probably also did Formosa Tea and I wasn't going to look it up, but wait and see, and boom I was right. I had never heard of this game, and The Dice Tower did a best board game covers bracket video and this game was in there, and did very well. Literall watched that video and found a copy to buy. Sadly still haven't played it.....BUT I can't wait too! Very excited.
Oh wow! I had no idea the Dice Tower had a board game cover bracket! That sounds too fun! Have fun with your copy! It's great!
@@CardboardEast They did two good cover brackets, and one bad covers and oh buddy watch that one for some terribly good bad covers haha
Amazing games, thanks for sharing! Hope to find some of them in Sydney next month.
Thanks for watching! I’d love to find out what you find down under! Please post a pic on socials and tag me! 👍
Electropolis is a solid game. Played it twice I believe and each time it had some good chunky decisions.
I was really impressed with how smooth the gameplay felt and how smoothly balance of popularity and pollution were integrated in to the gameplay. Great game.
Hey!! I own 5 in this section too! 8,7,6,5,1! Ok, technically 4 since one hasn't delivered from kickstarter yet....and one we just got at Gencon and there may be an unboxing going up on my channel this week! 😊
Great minds!
Formosa Tea is such a good game. Was there a mention about an expansion in the works?
The was talk of a 2nd Edition, but I haven’t heard anything after the pandemic.
@@CardboardEast Nice. Hopefully it will be released here after TMG closed. I'm so glad I picked this up when it was still available. Also, I appreciate your replies on the BGG forums with rules clarifications. :)
@@josyuen4207 🤞
So I still need Electropolis, Formosa Tea, Roudnhouse and Pathogen 😁 Let's hope Spiel has some of these for me
It should! I’m sure if you contact Taiwan Boardgame Design or EmperorS4, they would be more than happy to bring some copies for you.
Roundhouse rules leave a lot of questions left. Most are like: how does this power interact with that. Or am I allowed to do this.
I feel that. Although I didn’t have those issues, I understand many others did.
@@CardboardEast hi thank you for the reply. i have a lot of the asian games. and a few of them i can not understand the rules, so they become unplayable. for roundhouse i know the rules but somtimes i forgot a specific thing. and the specific thing is not clearly mentiond in the rules and then its gues work.. even asking it on bgg does not always help. well if i have a question about roundhous i gues i could ask you. a other thing about roundhous, i wanted to get expansions but there unoptainable. my main source of asian games is Essen. are you gona be at essen this year? if so, hope to see you there.
@@Dawn_Mage Sadly I will not be at Essen this year, but if you want the expansions for Round House I’d suggest reaching out to EmperorS4. They may have some lying around their office. I’m sure they’d be more than happy to sell them to you.
these top 10 is amazing!!! i make learn modern games to my wife with Round House (if i remember it was our really first game together), she loved it , my Mini Express is still in Taiwan in family in law house, fot mini WII, im waiting the new edition with Total Domination , Joraku is a must have like Hanamikoji, Electropolis, Formosa Tea and Pathogen are games im really interested.
Oh yeah! Total Domination! It’s crazy how it hasn’t been fulfilled yet! The submarine rules added just for Total Domination are really cool!
Bought Juraku last year at Spiel after seeing your review. It's really good
Glad you found a game you love! It’s sooo gooood! The deluxe edition blows my mind with how good it is. Easily one of Asia’s best.
I have a special place on my shelve for boardgames from Asia. Here in Europe it's like pure economics when it comes to boardgames. I get a more energetic vibe from Asia, more passion and love for the boardgame. @@CardboardEast
A lot of games that I'm very interested to try!
The best part is that games from Taiwan are SOOOOOOO much easier to find than games from Japan. Also, Taiwanese publishers often license games from Japan!
I had Pathogen as your no 1... :p
Close!
Are there any solo friendly good games from Taiwan?
Excellent question! Worthy of its own list! Jiangnan & Mini Express both have AI bots allowing you to play solo with multiple players. Rescue Polar Bears is a coop game, so it naturally lends itself for solo play. Not featured in my Top 20, but I’d recommend Pocket Master Builder as a strong solo game.
I own Mini Park! It is a neat little game.
Have you tried the latest version of the rules? It’s a subtle change, but much better. boardgamegeek.com/filepage/150044/mini-park-english-rulebooks
@@CardboardEast Well, it seems that the rules I have are the same, unless I'm missing something. I went to the link, clicked on the most upper (recent) file, and I read it all with the rules I have in my hands. I see the "Score Victory Points" section is slimmed down to simply say, "score one point for each tile the new one is connected to" which is probably the change you are mentioning. There is a visual change regarding step 7 of the setup, and the tiles on my copy are shown face up, even though it says to ranomly place them. And in the BGG file the tiles are facedown. If that is it, then thanks for sharing!
@@robertcrist6059 That’s it! If you read the description of the pdf you downloaded, I believe Tony (the designer of Iberian Rails) wrote the changes down there.
Both Round House and Formosa Tea are games I'd love to try, but one of my main gaming partners is colourblind, and neither game is playable for him.
Oh no! Hopefully a 2nd edition comes out that is colorblind friendly 🤞