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Off The Shelf Board Game Reviews
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Приєднався 7 жов 2011
A UA-cam channel dedicated to the growing Board Game Hobby!
Off The Shelf Board Game Reviews seeks to give you the viewer an Ala Carte' view to the board gaming hobby. Want a quick game rundown? Check out the Overview. Want to learn how to play the game? Got you covered! See the game played? Videos for that. Just want to get to the bottom of things and get a review? Check out the review video!
My goal is to bring you at LEAST 2 games (8 videos) each month!
Off The Shelf Board Game Reviews is self funded, please consider supporting the channel over on Patreon www.patreon.com/OTSBGR
Thanks for watching and thanks for your support!!
Off The Shelf Board Game Reviews seeks to give you the viewer an Ala Carte' view to the board gaming hobby. Want a quick game rundown? Check out the Overview. Want to learn how to play the game? Got you covered! See the game played? Videos for that. Just want to get to the bottom of things and get a review? Check out the review video!
My goal is to bring you at LEAST 2 games (8 videos) each month!
Off The Shelf Board Game Reviews is self funded, please consider supporting the channel over on Patreon www.patreon.com/OTSBGR
Thanks for watching and thanks for your support!!
How Do You Play... Portals?
Portals is an abstract strategy game for 2-4 players that also offers a solo component which plays more like a logic puzzle and slightly modifies the base rules for the game.
"A long time ago, the great wizard Dominick Dey discovered a way to travel between different worlds. He learned how to open portals using elemental magic: air, earth, fire, water, and time. Dominick spent many centuries visiting the most incredible corners of the Universe, bringing home all manner of amazing artifacts, strange fruits, and exotic creatures. But one day he did not come back home. Whether misfortune befell him, or whether he found a place that he did not wish to return from - his fate is still unknown.
Portals is an abstract game that is easy-to-learn, but the path to mastery is harder than it seems. In this game, you get Key cards and fill them with Elemental stones taken from sources of power.
When all icons on the Key card are filled with stones, the card can be activated to transfer stones to available Elemental boards. Players get victory points for matching colors and color adjacency.
The player to earn the most victory points by the end of four rounds becomes the most skilled wizard - the one to solve the mystery of Dominick Dey’s disappearance."
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"A long time ago, the great wizard Dominick Dey discovered a way to travel between different worlds. He learned how to open portals using elemental magic: air, earth, fire, water, and time. Dominick spent many centuries visiting the most incredible corners of the Universe, bringing home all manner of amazing artifacts, strange fruits, and exotic creatures. But one day he did not come back home. Whether misfortune befell him, or whether he found a place that he did not wish to return from - his fate is still unknown.
Portals is an abstract game that is easy-to-learn, but the path to mastery is harder than it seems. In this game, you get Key cards and fill them with Elemental stones taken from sources of power.
When all icons on the Key card are filled with stones, the card can be activated to transfer stones to available Elemental boards. Players get victory points for matching colors and color adjacency.
The player to earn the most victory points by the end of four rounds becomes the most skilled wizard - the one to solve the mystery of Dominick Dey’s disappearance."
This channel is 100% SPONSOR FREE!
Your subscriptions DO MATTER!
Like, subscribe, share, and think about supporting the channel at www.patreon.com/OTSBGR just $1 in the tip jar is an awesome way to say "Thank you!"
Thanks for watching!
#crowdgames #portals #boardgames
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What Is... Portals?
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Portals is an abstract strategy game for 2-4 players that also offers a solo component which plays more like a logic puzzle and slightly modifies the base rules for the game. "A long time ago, the great wizard Dominick Dey discovered a way to travel between different worlds. He learned how to open portals using elemental magic: air, earth, fire, water, and time. Dominick spent many centuries vi...
Is Portals Worth It?
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Portals is an abstract strategy game for 2-4 players that also offers a solo component which plays more like a logic puzzle and slightly modifies the base rules for the game. "A long time ago, the great wizard Dominick Dey discovered a way to travel between different worlds. He learned how to open portals using elemental magic: air, earth, fire, water, and time. Dominick spent many centuries vi...
Portals - Full Play Through
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Portals is an abstract strategy game for 2-4 players that also offers a solo component which plays more like a logic puzzle and slightly modifies the base rules for the game. "A long time ago, the great wizard Dominick Dey discovered a way to travel between different worlds. He learned how to open portals using elemental magic: air, earth, fire, water, and time. Dominick spent many centuries vi...
Fabled The Spirit Lands - Review
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Fabled The Spirit Lands is a competitive 2-5 player game or a cooperative 1-4 player game that plays in under 75 minutes. "The End of Times is at hand. Soon the worlds of humans and spirits will be reborn, and the Universe will be created anew. For thousands of years, both worlds were ruled by higher beings people used to call Gods. Now it is time for the Gods to depart into oblivion. On the ve...
Fabled The Spirit Lands - Gameplay
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Fabled The Spirit Lands is a competitive 2-5 player game or a cooperative 1-4 player game that plays in under 75 minutes. "The End of Times is at hand. Soon the worlds of humans and spirits will be reborn, and the Universe will be created anew. For thousands of years, both worlds were ruled by higher beings people used to call Gods. Now it is time for the Gods to depart into oblivion. On the ve...
Fabled The Spirit Lands - How to Play
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Fabled The Spirit Lands is a competitive 2-5 player game or a cooperative 1-4 player game that plays in under 75 minutes. "The End of Times is at hand. Soon the worlds of humans and spirits will be reborn, and the Universe will be created anew. For thousands of years, both worlds were ruled by higher beings people used to call Gods. Now it is time for the Gods to depart into oblivion. On the ve...
Fabled The Spirit Lands - Overview
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Fabled The Spirit Lands is a competitive 2-5 player game or a cooperative 1-4 player game that plays in under 75 minutes. "The End of Times is at hand. Soon the worlds of humans and spirits will be reborn, and the Universe will be created anew. For thousands of years, both worlds were ruled by higher beings people used to call Gods. Now it is time for the Gods to depart into oblivion. On the ve...
Scarface 1920: Bloody Business - Expansion Tutorial and Rundown
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Scarface 1920 allowed you to take over a criminal empire in the 1920's era of prohibition. Three years later, the competition is heating up, as new blood joins the fray, it's time for a little Bloody Business! "The city's main criminal gangs have amassed enormous fortunes and gained tremendous power. However, the city has become too small, and the ambition of people like Al Capone prevents them...
Scarface 1920: Bloody Business - Red Dragon Tong
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Scarface 1920 allowed you to take over a criminal empire in the 1920's era of prohibition. Three years later, the competition is heating up, as new blood joins the fray, it's time for a little Bloody Business! "The city's main criminal gangs have amassed enormous fortunes and gained tremendous power. However, the city has become too small, and the ambition of people like Al Capone prevents them...
Scarface 1920: Bloody Business - Golden Oaks Gang
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Scarface 1920 allowed you to take over a criminal empire in the 1920's era of prohibition. Three years later, the competition is heating up, as new blood joins the fray, it's time for a little Bloody Business! "The city's main criminal gangs have amassed enormous fortunes and gained tremendous power. However, the city has become too small, and the ambition of people like Al Capone prevents them...
Scarface 1920 Bloody Business
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Scarface 1920 allowed you to take over a criminal empire in the 1920's era of prohibition. Three years later, the competition is heating up, as new blood joins the fray, it's time for a little Bloody Business! "The city's main criminal gangs have amassed enormous fortunes and gained tremendous power. However, the city has become too small, and the ambition of people like Al Capone prevents them...
Evolution: Another World - Solo Teach and Playthrough
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Evolution: Another world is a card game of... Evolution for 1-4 players ages 11 and up that easily plays in about 30 minutes and offers a challenging AI for solo gameplay! 2:05 How To Play 24:22 Gameplay "We know a great deal about the evolution on Earth (and we hope that Evolution: New World helped you with that too). It's an exciting story of various creatures acquiring defensive & offensive ...
Evolution: Another World - Review
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Evolution: Another world is a card game of... Evolution for 2-4 players ages 11 and up that easily plays in about 30 minutes and offers a challenging AI for solo gameplay! 13:00 - The retail version is 1-4 players, but the Kickstarter version will be 1-6 players. "We know a great deal about the evolution on Earth (and we hope that Evolution: New World helped you with that too). It's an exciting...
Evolution: Another World - Gameplay
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Evolution: Another world is a card game of... Evolution for 2-4 players ages 11 and up that easily plays in about 30 minutes and offers a challenging AI for solo gameplay! Corrections: 11:35 - At that point, Charming triggers, and you could take another Energy from the supply. "We know a great deal about the evolution on Earth (and we hope that Evolution: New World helped you with that too). It...
Evolution Another World - Quick Overview
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Evolution Another World - Quick Overview
Scarface 1920 Solo Teach and Playthrough
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Scarface 1920 Solo Teach and Playthrough
Mosaic: A Story of Civilization - Solo Play Through
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Mosaic: A Story of Civilization - Solo Play Through
Mosaic: A Story of Civilization - 3 Player Playthrough
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Mosaic: A Story of Civilization - 3 Player Playthrough
Mosaic: A Story of Civilization - How to Play
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Mosaic: A Story of Civilization - How to Play
Mosaic A Story of Civilization - Quick Overview
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Mosaic A Story of Civilization - Quick Overview
Mosaic: A Story of Civilization - Review
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Mosaic: A Story of Civilization - Review
Bestiary of Sigillum - Full Playthrough
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Bestiary of Sigillum - Full Playthrough
Great video you should do more blood bowl
Thanks, very helpful, as we were playing in wrongly. Next time better!
Well, Legacy games being bad is subjective. I feel they could be designed smarter so they can be fully replayed, although this would mean a lot of work resetting everything. I honestly feel Legacy games are expensive throw away games that waste resources. This is a great guide. Small problem is I came from a link that shows this video as "the story of the game" which lead me to think this was going to be about the making of the game, and/or the game's lore. So this isn't what I expected the video to be and was less useful to me in this way.
Thanks for this. There is new content coming out for this game in November/December this year and looking forward to that.
I've been rewatching your videos, now that we are a couple months closer to the MARCH 2025 release/shipping. Did you ever do/(redo after your computer crash) the video Canooks vs. Rend Tong video?
GG, thanks for info. im just buy the mage knight with my friends, and its help a lot. can i ask you, how about the ultimate expansion, is that any difrent? and when we add elit unit board?
This is an amazing how to video, well done. It explained everything very clearly. Well done!
Your videos are much better when you slow down the talking to the speed you did in this video… maybe even a hair slower, but definitely no faster. Thanks for teaching this to me… playing in a couple weeks.
Great instructional video!! Watching this and your playthrough before I play.
fantastic playthrough! just getting into this. about to start our first game and wondering if we should add on the expansion for our first playthrough as we bought both.
The volume levels aren't always the same along the entire video but other than that... Awesome explanation which makes me wish that you'll do the same for so many other games. Thanks!
Great overview! Makes me want you to do the same for Fractal, Voidfall, The Warp, and so many other games :)
Thank you ,very good video playthrough.😁
I just wanted to say that your guesses for the final end product pricing was very very accurate. Good job!
Great playthrough, thanks for doing it, I pretty much learnt to play the game from the first one and this video. 😁
If ever a video needed chapters...
Only bought this version but does the booklet show correct? It shows in the example you move from land to land and skip the ocean area as adjacent
The ridiculous setup is what has kept this on my shelf for three years even though the game looks fun. Finally pulling it out. Thank you for the teach video. I like how you kind of made your own prelude expansion with your home rule card setup at the beginning.
What do you think about the balancing of the Heros from the upgrade kit compared to for example the indian scout or the gunslinger from the basic game? Or in other words are the new heros powercreeps?
38:00 We can play our starter cards that don't have prerequisites? The rule book doesn't say anything about playing cards in your starting hand or how many can be played, only buy a card and play if possible. The rule book doesn't give any examples, just throws you in and figure it out on your own. * I messed up and missed it during the set up.
First time visiting your channel and I have been pleasantly surprised by the quality of the explanation. Congratulations. 👏👏
This is the most unethical board game company ever. I pledged for hyperspace back in 2019 and no one has recieved it yet. INFACT all that we have gotten was an email saying they are going to use our pledge money to funs another kickstarter campaign. How could they think that is an ethical way of doing business. I WANT MY MONEY BACK
Is extinction the only expansion for this game? Would love to try it with different great old ones!
I'm really enjoying this video and it is so helpful! Thank you!
You rock man! Great video! Can't wait to dive into my new copy
I play Cthulhu Wars 2 or 3 times per year. This video is a perfect tune up for my understanding of how to play. Hopefully, I'll get off to a good start for a change.
Where did you get the dodo card?
Please either keep going or show us cool deck builds for each character
It's so late, but excellent review of my favorite game :) Indeed every time I introduce this game to new people I see that it starts with bloodshed and suddenly they realize it was not worth it at all. Few people mention it, but I think there is a bit of diplomacy and a lot of table talk in this game.
My copy of deadzone has been in the box for 10 years... just cracked it open and have assembled five factions.. opened all the cards...now ready to start on the buildings...I have a load of random stuff from the kickstarter including bonus building sprues, a mouse mat playing surface, mercenaries and forge fathers on motorbikes! Searched you tube and found your videos and also the Esoteric order of gamers vids for first edition really helpful. Thanks a million!
AWSOME VID! THX
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I know your video is 9 months old, but for someone who is new to Scarface 1920, and only want 1 of the 2 gangs, which one would you recommend (most fun, easier to learn etc)? My group and I will at max only be 5 players, so i can save some money (Price, VAT, shipping) by only choosing one of the gangs + Bloody Business. The Golden Oak gang video seemed to be more detailed, so I guess they are perhaps a bit harder(?) to play? Or is the Red Dragon better if someone wants the playstyle of being "winning in silence"? Great videos tho! :)
I like this game a lot and with your great video, its easy to follow the new rules/changes! Many thanks for this! 🏅👍🙂
HI, I appreciate a lot your content. Have you thought about doing a video of your top games? I would be curious to learn about them.
Very nice!
Thanks for this. Picked this up yesterday and had a few questions which were answered here 👍
What shelves do you have in the back? Looks like they hold more than the standard KALLAX option.
These can be found at costco! They're just metal shelf frames with MDF shelves.
The liquor board on the gamefound page looks like you can slot the cases into the board (like the cubes on the Boss board). I hope the final product does too if that's a prototype you have there. It doesn't look like you can on that. Is the Liquor track you have there double layered?
Really great How to Play video. Felt like it was almost done in one take. Good grief you must have been thirsty!
I loved this ! Thank you, this was very clearly explained and I got right to playing with my friends after this !!!!!!!!!!!! :D
This was helpful!
Guy rolls 3 6’s in a roll and continues like it’s no big deal. Bravo
On a playthrough more of the game and less of you on cam would be ideal.
So you can move your Angry Boss straight from District to Underworld/Authorities to boost your Muscle/Influence in plan for order?
Nice review! You really have a similar vibe to Bryan from The Dice Tower. It’s pretty wild how similar both of your inflections are.
I adore Firefly, so when I saw the board game at a thrift shop--opened by unplayed--I snatched it! However, after watching this tutorial I realize this is far too much game for me! I've package it up--opened and unplayed--to regift. I wanted to be Inara any way....
I just received this game as a gift and the first play through was rough. Thank you for making this video, because you have cleared up a lot of rules for me.
Picked up the 2nd printing, and this tutorial is pure gold! Absolute class! Thank u for your time and effort, dude 😊
At 16:00 in the Playthrough Stephanie's Bodyguards move 2 Police - one into Capone's District where ha has presence and the other into another Distict. Shouldn't Capone be required to pay the $2 bribe ?