How it Plays: Lost Ruins of Arnak Full Gameplay and Review

hi and welcome to ant lab games where we give you our real impressions while we play i'm your host anthony and i'm francis and today we present lost ruins of our knack lost ruins of arnac is a highly thematic exploration game where players compete to discover artifacts defeat guardians hire assistants and research a long-lost temple it plays one to four explorers in about 30 minutes per player and has been regarded highly by many of our gaming friends is this game worth the glowing praise what are you doing with all these commas i'm about to do it right now you're gonna you're about to see what i'm doing with all these or should it remain lost like the ruins themselves oh and i can't even go anywhere else ah find out now as we show you how it plays all right we're back welcome to our ruins welcome to the ruins so what is the lost ruins what are the lost runes of arnac that's a question we hopefully we will go up this research track and find out we will so in the lost ruins in lost rooms of our neck i keep wanting to say the loss i know yeah but it's just lost rooms of our neck so in lost rooms of our neck we are us thinking um explorers on an expedition right expedition discovers a mysterious secret island called arnac where we have just landed on the shore and we're setting up our base camps and we're going to start exploring inland and doing research to try to discover the lost temple exactly right so a pretty pretty exciting journey yeah we get to be archaeologists or explorers are we thinking of dinosaurs well [Music] so take a look at the board ah our sideways board our sideways board so this is the recommended setup sideways actually just because this board is so long having it go i actually had it set up the opposite way and it did fit on the table it fit but we would have had to actually like i think i would need an extension so we would need that stick yeah that stick to move like at a crafts table i'd have to move stuff around but i don't think that would have worked for all you but here is the setup for lost runes of arnac uh we could go over the board real quick yeah let's just do it you want to go over the top section i'll take sort of this area and then we'll get to it absolutely so here at the top we have artifacts and we also have um items or tools that are going to help tools yeah on our expedition i guess you call it equipment equipment yes um and we also have this staff here which will denote which round we are in so this game is going to be played over five rounds and uh as we move uh down from round to round more artifacts are going to be available to us and fewer tools will be available to us um as as would be the case if we were actually out on an expedition that's to signify as you push further into the island we're going to be getting less and less support from our boat mainland yeah from the boat as you'd call it the mainland right yeah um cool excellent we also have a few decks up here to serve as a discard or exile um piles for these cards and we'll explain how that works a little bit later um and then i guess why don't you take from down below up towards the top okay so down at the very bottom it's just our supply right so that's just where all of our items are in this game all the resources are coins tablets compasses arrowheads and gems well they're called gemside so they could be rubies they look like rubies um this is our supply for our uh our discovers our ruins or our sites you'll see that in a little bit um then we have our guardian stack which is scary and crazy we have assistance that we can recruit into our expedition that can help us along the way up here on the top half of the board is the temple research track so we're going to be just researching in order to find the lost temple on this now this is a double-sided board yes so for this playthrough we actually thought we'd take you to the through the advanced side of the board i guess you want to call the advanced because the other side is the bird temple and that's the side that's recommended you play for your first game right till you get comfortable with the game flip it over you play on the snake temple it's a little more complex yeah i think so it's just a little more challenging so it's more puzzly i think which is good i think you should we want to give you sort of a a little bit different experience yeah hopefully then what's going on outside right now so um in the center is really the island right the inland so this is where we're going to be exploring now there's two different exploration sites there's site one which is right here identified by that symbol and then there's site two which is these four locations up above right it's a lot more expensive to get out to site two just because it's so far inland so we're gonna probably be focusing on site one down here is really our base camp uh sites where we can actually um just uh perform actions here and it's a lot cheaper because it's all within walking distance right and we're kind of like all right we just got to the island hey there's some cool caves around the ocean yeah you can kind of explore and start getting more artifacts and more clues to what's actually happening happening and i would say strategically and you'll see this throughout the game uh in the beginning of the game obviously you'll be able to you know reap these rewards and it's going to be great but as you work through the game we're going to be hopefully building some engines that do us even better than just you know wandering around the caves close to base camp for sure for sure we'll see okay so that's the whole board and all the components now each of us has a base cam right this is our player board and our player board we have two explorers uh we started with uh different goods because um i'm a player two your player once you got two coins i have a coin and a compass now up here uh we each have six cards now keep in mind that this um this is a deck builder this game it is as much as it doesn't look like a deck builder there's a definite deck building component component to this so each of us starts with the same exact cards you're going to have two which you want to call funding cards two exploration cards and two fear cards now these fear cards are good for getting around but that's about it at the end of the game they're working worth negative points you're going to want to thin your deck of these cards at some point but we each start with these six we're going to start with a hand of five cards to begin with um and on your turn you can do a number of different actions so you can and they're pretty pretty straightforward you get one action and then you you're done and you're just going to keep going until we all pass yeah so the way the uh the turns go is basically um like i said you take your action and those actions can be um dig at a site so you can dig at one of these sites um or one of these sites once they've been discovered you could discover a site you can overcome one of the guardians at the site and we'll go into that later or you can buy an item card or for the cost of gold coins at the bottom or you can buy an artifact for the cost of compasses now compasses represent exploration yeah it's kind of like how much time it took you to actually find that artifact yes so um and then finally you can work your way up this research temple track so um yeah i think that's pretty much it and as always we'll go over this yeah and the one last thing you gotta really keep track of in this game is that cards there's two types of cards there's cards that have uh like these they have an action that you can take which it costs your action for your turn right the cards that we start with have this lightning bolt symbol which means it's a free action so i could i could spend this card just to get that coin right that wouldn't cost my turn yep anytime you see that uh lightning bolt and you'll see them like on the assistance as well sometimes um we can take that just as a free action whatever it happens anytime in your turn in any order just like any other free action rules right so let's draw off our one two three four five cards we will get into this exploration all right all right um well this isn't great yeah yeah as as as a young explorer of course we have we are early in our expedition we've got like nothing but fear and a little bit of cash yeah that sounds about right so for my first action the way this works is again like anthony kind of alluded to your cards are can sometimes be dual use so uh you'll have an icon in the upper left which will it depict usually a a symbol that is going to be required to take the actions on the board and you also have that lightning bolt which you can actually use as either a compass or a gold in this case and then you've got these fear boots which is just basically you walking around in fear yeah it's very scary business stuff um and i think i will start off by i'll play my fear card so i'll play a boot um and i'm going to place my um archaeologist out here boom in this boot spot and i'm going to get two compasses for that now uh important to note that when once you place your archaeologists out on the board very seldom can they move only under certain circumstances if you have a card that lets you replace their you know move them somewhere else relocate relocate them can you do that um so once they're out there they're pretty much stuck yeah you can't pull them back so yeah for on your turn they're out there they're pretty much going to stay there unless like francis said you have a card that allows you to do that which is yeah it's not not common so um i'll i'll follow suit i think and move my guy here and take two coins and we're the reason we're playing a card so you play a card into your play area and you play it for the transportation cost like you said right so the base camp just crossed the boot right now you can pay any so there's there's four different movement transportation types there's a boot there's a boat a car and a plane right plane's at the top of the house a plane can be used for any movement boats can be used for boats or boots cars can be used for cars or boots boots can be used for just boots yeah in the two-player game this weird little water symbol is basically covering up the double boot cost spot which is what you would have in a higher player count game and two players you cover all those so it tightens up the board yeah there's also some missing tiles up here because they're only for three three plus players right uh all right so i think i kind of want to go on like an expedition oh you're going out already i think i might you know but i'm thinking about what i want to do here so um i don't really like any of this stuff that's out there for for purchase yeah at the moment okay but that's okay all right so all right so what i'm going to do is i'm actually going to play this card for the compass so essentially i'm getting that compass and then for my action i'm going to pay three compass three compasses three complaints so you're going to do a discover a new site actually right and i will pay those so the three compasses is the cost and i'm gonna place my archaeologist out now again this is where these symbols come into play because i have to look back in my hand again and figure out okay what kind of mode of transportation do i have i have boats in this case and i also have cars um so i could take cars cars cars boats boats boats i cannot take planes and i can't go to this spot that takes double boosts because i like one boot lift so i could go um and so maybe i'll go up there i'll take the boat all right because remember even though she paid the exploration cost i still have she still has to get ferry her explorer out there i know so i'm gonna go out here and now because i went out here i get to claim this idol um idol token i put that here i automatically get what's depicted which is why i was kind of thinking about what i wanted so i have my little tablet this immediately gets flipped over and put down here with all of my suitcases and my other stuff don't really want it to get like lost up here because like it's really confusing i will be able to use this up here i can put this here to activate one of these uh free actions to get some resources or something later on but the downside to doing that is that this is worth three points if i cover up this i'm actually losing that endgame point so you want to be smart about when you're using those right now i'm just going to leave that there now next thing that's going to happen if you could pull me out number one number one yeah because i get to see so go ahead and see the whole thing oh it's a ruby okay oh cool that's pretty cool so i get a ruby i've discovered this cat thing um and now it's very cool but next most importantly it doesn't go without barrel so the guardian comes out and this guardian looks like a giant some kind of scorpion or something so what we see on this card or this uh tile i guess uh is a couple of things so this is what's going what i need to pay or what someone will need to pay eventually to get rid of this guardian and then up in the upper right hand side of that tile is the immediate effect that that guardian will be able to grant me or whoever i guess it's the yeah it's kind of like you can use it later on yeah for killing it but you can use it later so um the the caveat to defeating him is first of all it's not something i can do right now because you do have to take an action to do it your archaeologist does have to be on site with that um with the the guardian so at the end of the round if i haven't defeated that not only am i going to get a fear card but my archaeologist is going to come back kind of running from the hills afraid i guess because he didn't defeat him and um and then it's a free spot open uh for like anthony could jump on there and not only get the ruby but also but overcome that guardian defeat the guardians and they're worth five points at the end yeah exactly so you do want to charge them you definitely want to get them so here's the end of your turn all right and nothing that's all that guardian does all they're going to do is give you fear cards if your cards just clog up your deck if you're wondering what the big deal is that's the big that's the big deal not a big deal all right so let me see what my options are here they're not great yeah this isn't my options are not looking great right super no they're they're actually quite bad um yeah i guess i don't know if i i don't i don't know if i necessarily want to do that then uh the the costs are so much higher yeah on this side of the board it is very very expensive and they're not really giving me anything good so i'm going to go ahead and i'm going to play this card to get a coin that's a free action and then i'm going to spend my four coins as my true action i'm going to buy the the binoculars all right so this when you buy an item i mean this is very important because everything you buy is a different you treat it this is the deck building buy an item it goes face down at the bottom of your deck that's it everything slides towards the wand the staff yeah no refill that and then you refresh and that's the end of my turn okay all right i would like to defeat this thing but i don't have ah a compass or one of those things uh so i'll do this then i'm gonna do oh i can't see i don't have any more that's fortunate [Laughter] um that's not good let's put these sides outside anything below your player board um this is not good no ah wow yeah oh how am i supposed to get an arrow then you're probably not uh all right well i'm gonna stall and just do this i'm gonna pay ruby and could you push my magnifying glass up so you're doing research yes so the way that this research track works and you'll see this as we do a little bit more research is uh you have a magnifying glass and you have a book and the magnifying glass indicates kind of what you have discovered your book is kind of like your log so that's you writing it down uh you can't write down stuff that you haven't discovered yet so you always have to have your magnifying glass on or ahead of your book um and that's kind of why the the um bonuses are a little bit heavier for the books so your magnifying glass earns you give me a coin one coin for that level okay and that's it uh man yeah i guess i could kind of do something similar but yeah so what i'll do is i'll play my fear card take my other explorer out here to get two tablets and it's your turn oh i don't like this yeah i mean i could like i have this idol that i could use to get some stuff but i don't have enough to get like a compass and an arrow i just don't so i may be out of luck for that um ah yeah because even going up this track i'm only going to get two coins if i could manage to get a movie all right so what i will do instead then is i'm going to use this as a coin to get a coin and then you've got four points and now i'm going to pay four coins to grab this aeroplane as an item this is so good for later i'm so happy this came out early airplane is good yeah all right that's your turn and i'm going to sturdy boots spend a compass and two tablets to move my magnifying glass up here and get a coin your turn yeah this is so bad i think i'm gonna have to pass you pass well i have a fear card left all right and it has a stay in my hand i'm not happy about it it doesn't you can discard it yeah you know you don't have to keep it when you go into the next round you can get rid of any cards oh i thought i had to keep it i'm gonna no the thing is the favorite cards are okay in the beginning because you need them like you don't want to spend your good cards to go and do this stuff the boot stuff you know what i mean true so it's okay it's better to just not have fear cards at all all right so you passed yes so i'm gonna do a free action which is just getting two compasses for these guys [Applause] um and then i'm just gonna pass as well okay so that's it so at the end of the round the first thing you do is you bring back your explorers and if you happen to be on a space where there was a guardian you earn yourself a fear card he ran away afraid yep in peril yes he did so then you take your um your cards that were in your play area only and you shuffle them up this is very important this is how the deck is built that is right and now you draw five so you're always going to get what's left on top of your deck to play for the next hopefully not a plus a lot of crap a lot better stuff um so that was the end of round one right so what we do have to do as well is you go to the um the wand the staff and then you discard the card on each side of it yes and then slide it over to round two and bring out two artifacts so as it slides more artifacts gonna come out ah there it is items what do we got wine [Music] all right so we are ready to begin round two round two all right the last thing we do is pass the player one pass the clock so i am player one all right what to do what to do so i think um there's some good stuff out here that i can do i'm gonna go ahead and take a boat i think take a boat out to no that location get that gym you can defeat that thing at some point this turn that's my hope i really kind of wanted that see if i can except to discard a card a compass and an arrowhead that's a lot of goods i need to get that's a lot of stuff yes um all right well i'm gonna do this fear and go back out here and get two compass against okay um i guess what i can do is play my binoculars so now that allows me to activate any level one site interesting so i could get another gem you could that's pretty good i want that right now i don't know i want to hold off on that for now and wait and see what else comes out yeah because there might be some better exploring to do here so instead i will play this exploration card for a compass okay which now allows me to do a travel action right sure so what do i want though i'll discover a site yeah i want to discover a site so i think i'm going to spend my three compasses i'm going to take a car and i'm going to drive over to this guy okay and take this and that'll give me a compass as well and let's see what it is i'm eager me too oh two more compasses or i can get a item for free yeah i want to look at those items first what do we have okay so we've got an army knife so you can choose two different options and you can basically grab a bunch of stuff we have a whip exile this card to buy um an artifact for a discount of four compasses which is basically getting it for free yeah a steamboat which is going to be instant two compasses okay and sturdy boots eh i will take i will take the swiss army knife okay because that gives me the most options okay yeah for free um and we have to bring out a guardian yes you do to see now i'm about to you are just wow okay owl guardian stone all right you're up what are you going to do um well i think that i am also going to go out and discover a site so i'm taking my aeroplane which allows me to take the site action with a discount of plane which basically gives you a discount on anything because planes are are king if discovering a new site which i will be you also have a discount of two compasses so i'm only going to pay one compass to go out there yup and discover a site and i think i will take maybe one of these exile ones so maybe i'll take the boot yeah i'll take the boat one and i'll take this guy and that allows me to discard or exile get rid of um any cart and i'm going to get rid of the sphere card any card in your hand or in your play area right so goodbye all right so you have a site oh well that's just perfect oh that's nice so you're gonna earn yourself an arrowhead and a compass oh that's so pretty okay and a guardian oh boots and a ruby yikes that's expensive yeah yep okay and we've got some pretty dangerous sights out here i don't like this one bit all right our investors are just gonna no yeah like you need to get lost i'm gonna pay a ruby because my move is actually gonna be to move my book up this path so i don't go past my magnifying glass i'm okay but that gets me a reward of one assistant and i'm to choose any one of these i will take the captain oh the captain who for a free action i can earn i can use him as a boat to drive me somewhere or to get a compass yeah that's my turn very good i would like to go up that track too um but i have to defeat i have to defeat this guy [Music] ugh but i can't oh this is so bad this is like actually really not good at all oh my gosh i'm so stuck this side of the board is so difficult um i need to find a way to get a ruby oh my goodness i'm gonna have to you have the tools oh and i can't even go anywhere else ah i don't have the tools i kind of do you do have the tools yeah i do i just don't want to i just don't want to do it um so i guess i will uh i'll do this and i'm gonna get a i'm gonna have to get a compass and a coin what'd you do i went here oh this is like free i'm doing free actions here so you locked your in the top and these these start to cover up points you could get into this but they give you some good stuff well yes and no if you can not really afford it's great but if you can't then yeah then it's not good i'm giving up three points right now i don't like it i'll do this to get myself a ruby why are you launching i know i had to and then for my action now i have to think i could either move my book up right which could give me an assistant and one of those assistants could let me like draw a card and just discard a card [Music] which is good or compass but i think i just i really need to get rid of this guy because i don't want any more of that fear so for my action i will play fear card and this ruby so for the boot you're playing if you're for the boot yeah sorry and a ruby and ruby that defeats him defeats him i defeats him he defeats him so i get to keep this um thing that's a bird thing this bird inside the board actually if you keep it tight no yeah i think you can see that i'm looking at the screen so um yeah so there's that now again the cool thing about this is that up in the upper right there's this airplane i could flip this if i ever need an airplane or any other kind of travel token yep but for now he just stays there yeah that's it you're good all right so then i will i'm going to play my binoculars now and activate any site and the site i'm going to activate is this one to get a compass oh of any site yep yeah and that's exactly what you need an arrowhead you're trying to defeat that thing and this is not a free action so the text on the card is the action oh that's good oh yes oh that's great actually [Music] um uh yeah okay yes this i'm gonna do okay uh i'm gonna spend three compasses and i'm gonna buy this the pathfinders sandals so you're purchasing an artifact yeah so the way artifacts work is instead of them going into your deck immediately you actually get to take the action right away um for free so there is a cost associated with these artifacts if you want to use their actions later on but when you first receive them you could take it for free right now so i get to relocate a placed uh worker to one of the base camp spots and activate it so i will take for example i can just take this guy right and i can move him somewhere else and i think i'll move him over here there to get a ruby all right all right and then there's your ruby thank you and this is already down so now you slide it towards the oh towards the staff right everything slides towards this oh there's even a little there's a little arrow to tell you if you look for it it's there all right you're done all right so i'm gonna do a um overcome a guardian action okay because i had to get rid of one of these guys because there's too many so i need to discard a card which i have and i need to pay a compass and a arrowhead and arrowhead and i get this guy he goes here and i think i'll use him now okay his free action is straw card so i'm just gonna use him i can do it any time keep me in the game one more time so we'll see what happens one more time uh great so okay so i have some options here actually i could i could move my book up right yeah which would get me an assistant which is great um or i could use my ruby with my um like my parchment thing and uh and move my magnifying glass up another notch and get two coins but i think i should probably move my book because i kind of want one of those assistants okay um i just don't know which one maybe that plain person like the assistants aren't that great these ones they're i mean they're not bad they're not terrible um okay fine i'll pay yeah i'll pay the just the ruby and i'll move my book up to meet my okay i'll see you thank you all right so you get a coin one coin no i don't know oh no you don't i'm sorry you get you which one do you want uh i'll take the pilot the pilot yes all right there you go all right so my turn so i'm gonna i'm gonna actually move my idle up here like you did i'm gonna take the arrowhead and for my action i'm going to spend the arrowhead the coin and the compass arrowhead coin compass to move my magnifying glass up here and this will earn me a tablet good good work no it's your turn oh and two coins yeah don't forget that your turn all right um i'm gonna pay this just to get a compass okay so i'll take compass and i'm gonna activate her for a coin [Music] and i am going to pass i can't do anything else all right you passed excellent that's exactly what i wanted to hear that was my plan actually the whole time let's get you to pass just now um uh yeah this guy doesn't give me much so what i'll probably do is i will spend my two coins and buy the whip the whip wow you're like a regular indiana jones that's what they call them so i will take that okay and it's you passed i did so i just keep going until um until you're done yeah i wish i had another coin i would have bought that too so i'm gonna exhaust him for free take a compass this round you want to use them because they reset every round right they refresh yeah all i have left is a fear card so i can't do anything else so i'm going to just pass okay sounds good all right so we are in the round first thing we do is we bring our our explorers back i bring him back from a baddie so i'm going to get a fear card at some point he comes back we trash this card and we trash the steamboat so yeah you can refill that and this gets slid down okay um yeah these guys get shuffled i have so many fear cards i know refresh this i guess technically i should be sliding this down there we go which one came out just now these two okay yeah all right so once we're shuffled back under the deck draw five pass the clock hmm all right all right you lead us off the pathfinder's sandals oh man oh cool i feel like these were like the sandals that were in style like a couple years ago gladiators it's so ugly they are pretty ugly um all right hmm all right i'm gonna do this one two your turn my turn yep all right um i think i'm gonna play the whip to start and what this does exile this card so i'm gonna get rid of it entirely okay to buy a artifact with a four card discount of four yeah we've got a crystal earring just card i'll put that up there yeah i'm going to take the crystal earring now this effect goes into um effect right now so it says draw up to three cards right one two three and keep one ah right so let me look at these three all right i'll keep one you may return one of them to the top of your deck and then discard the rest okay oh keep what this is kind of weird the way it's written actually i think i think that's wrong i may keep one right so which which is the one i return and then discard the rest which would be these three yep is that how you would do that draw up to three cards and keep one you may turn one of them to the top of your deck discard the rest which would be one card wouldn't it right technically oh up to three cards yeah so if i only drew two so i think i actually think i get to keep the one in my hand right yeah yeah yeah all right so then i'm gonna do that the right way this one i put that on top and then discard that okay okay i think that's i think that's how it's that looks good to me um so that goes here in the play area and i'm done that was a crazy card that was crazy um oh wow that's good do i don't have enough of those things what things are you looking for huh oh don't you worry don't you worry um yeah that's good i'll just wait i'll wait on that even though i want to do it i'm going to send this guy here with this car okay he's driving out there so what do you what would you like um i can get two compasses or i could get an item for free um the lantern is kind of nice activate any base camp site yeah that's pretty good and we have sturdy boots with a discount but that's like the one cost yeah it's not worth it it's like not really worth it um or again i could get two two compasses compasses which is pretty good as well it's all so tempting um but i think i think i'm gonna take the compasses actually yeah do compasses yeah i mean that's where the thing is the cards are worth points too yeah they are all right i'll take the ultimate it's under your deck yeah all right all right so slide that gold pan down okay gold pan oh okay so that's your turn yep wow you got all your guys out already you didn't waste any time i didn't didn't waste any time all right so i will play uh the binos and i will activate any tier one site i'm gonna activate this and grab two compasses okay your turn i am going to defeat that guardian okay for one two three three tablets that's expensive it's very expensive one two three all right um i'm gonna play my army knife which allows me to trash a card exile a card which i will do for this fear and i will take a compass as my other one your turns oh i forgot i needed a tablet in order to do that [Laughter] whoops um yeah the rope is pretty cool too just start a card to draw two cards oh yeah um [Music] two boot discount isn't too bad either sturdy boots yeah actually um but what i think i would like to do is uh but i don't get cause i don't have the compasses turn it man i didn't plan that well i should have grabbed that other thing and the other thing and the other thing i should have that was not not well planned at all so this is like placement with double boots is fine mm-hmm but it's like with double boots the only thing or i mean you could take these too i guess right and it does give you a compass yeah it's not terrible man this is not great all right i guess i'll just spend a dollar um and take the sturdy boots take the sturdy boots there's nothing wrong with a good sturdy pair of boots i'm gonna go away too i've been eyeing those boots wow that's good let's hope you bring out something good for me you've got an automobile exactly what i was looking for perfect taken perfect absolutely perfect i want to know how we get that like thematically like do we find it the automobile yeah no you're you're calling it in it's on the show she's just calling it in airdrop what ship airdrop our ship is right off the coast of arnac okay all right uh okay you know what i could do that and get that is that worth it one probably not yeah it is actually it's probably more beneficial to do that um yeah so if i put a boat card i can move my dude and actually just go here and take two compasses okay yeah that's good oh this is not great at all this is so bad um i've only got like one coin's worth of money here it's not good oh what a puzzle [Music] see i i screwed up well i didn't really screw up but what got me was i need a one of those tablets to play this card and i can't it's like not worth it otherwise you know i could play this for a compass but that just gives me two compasses and i could play this for a gold i get two two gold it's like the max i don't have another gold you know so i guess i'll start by just playing that for gold [Music] and maybe i'll buy a gold pan why won't you buy the rope that's a good card i know but it's just like cycle through cards i guess all right fine okay i guess that's a good idea tap this yep so i get two coins two coins buy the rope buy the rope you're gonna have a great next hand i'll tell you what yeah you're building for the future [Music] i'm about to do it right now you're about to see what i'm doing with all these compasses compasses all right so i'm going to spend six compasses okay oh you're going big i'm going big i'm going to the second what the second region i'm going inland so it's going to take me six explorations just to get out here yeah it is and i will have to spend i'm gonna spend an automobile and a boat oh okay so i will spend my automobile so you're like driving out there and then like taking about and then my captain is gonna give you the boat take us in the rest of the way so i can acquire both of these with my explorer right so i get that plus a free coin okay right there um and now we're bringing out a level two yeah exploration time nice wow that's pretty cool sweet so that goes here i'm going to earn an arrowhead and what is protecting that ruin just a guardian a very weak one actually a beetle okay a giant what is he metallic beetle at least you got the arrow you need to kill him um yeah i do actually so you're up i've got nothing i got nothing um yeah i'm so stuck i'm just gonna get a compass there's your compass thank you and it's a pass you're gonna pass yeah i can't do anything with this thing okay um so i'm gonna just play that to get a coin and then i'm gonna pay two coins and an arrowhead very good to defeat or overcome the beetle [Laughter] there he is uh your turn i passed oh you passed my goodness uh i'm trying to think if i want to do more i could do so much more you could go up that track again i could but at what cost at the cost of a ruby and a tablet actually that's actually a pretty good cost but the problem is i don't have a card worth burning right now because the reward for my book would be oh i see that's the only thing i can do is move my book i don't have two of those in an arrowhead and that's also a burn-up book yeah it is i burn a card so okay all right so that's not gonna happen so i'm gonna pass i think i accomplished what i needed to accomplish all right so let's bring them in okay so come on back wow so there's no more guardians on the board right now they've been overcome they have um so yeah i'll let you manage that i can't reach it get rid of that sorry no gold pan yeah at least my car is still out there yes for now yeah a stone key oh i love stone keys okay all right so let me shuffle these up um one thing to note with this um snakeboard setup that's a little bit more there's a couple of like little thematic things going on with this research track yeah explain that they've got some our second assistant doesn't just get acquired throughout the track they actually have to be rescued so it's going to cost us one idol that's not been locked so you have to discard it from the game so you've given up three points just to get that second assistant um because they've been they've been taking prisoners so you have to receive free them and then later on as you get further up there's like distressing news and disgust stressing uh tails that will earn he you'll actually when you get magnifying glass up there it will earn you a fear card which is terrible that late in the game if you can get up that high yeah uh but if you can discover the the hidden temple then you get all sorts of goodies so you need to refresh your little adventure i get the player oh yes one token yeah i get to kick us off for round four are you ready yeah i'm ready you're up so what are you gonna do oh my goodness i don't know there's so much to do here i know and uh and i don't really love that card oh my gosh this is terrible oh my god this is terrible um wow yeah this is actually quite terrible so is it though it actually is i'm going to put my nose to start and uh i'm just gonna take two compasses i thought you said your rhinos my rhinos i was like yeah my my rhinoculars what do you used to see right now really is that your joke with yeah oh my god oh dear all right anyway uh okay my turn i'm just going to do that i don't want to lock up one of my people that was fun yeah um okay i'm gonna go i'm gonna use my lantern this might be a bad idea oh that activates the campsite that's pretty good i like that card it's a really good card i'm just hoping i don't need a car in the future oh okay i don't have any cars i don't have planes though planes will trump everything um i'm going to get two compasses please all right there you go thank you two compasses to you okay okay i'm gonna spend my capital and take a compass okay i'm gonna spend two boots to walk my little dude right up here very nice to take this and then exile there what am i fighting my fears good face your fears without hesitation all right so what are you bringing out i'm gonna bring out a level one site okay oh draw a card wow which is get a coin that's good get a coin and get a tablet there's like little rosetta stones they do i love them and we are facing an airplane arrowhead giant rodin bird okay yikes okay very nice not loving him but yeah well what are you gonna make a deal i can deal all right my turn yep all right i'm gonna take my airplane out so i can place a archaeologist with a discount of plane uh if discovering a new site you also have a discount of two compasses so i have four compasses i'm gonna go here and i'm going to put out my boots you get a discount off how many two all right so pay your four yep one two three four all right get these now i get to upgrade what did the cost of get out there a booth and a plane yeah that's such a weird like you drop him off and then he walks the rest that's what i'm thinking yeah um so i can upgrade my spear uh to become a ruby yeah so that that symbol is upgraded a tablet to a spear or to an arrowhead or an hour ahead to a ruby i don't know if i want to though because a lot of times to kill these things you need you need your help so i'm just going to not do that unfortunately we'll see just watch he's gonna need a ruby some for some reason uh so i need to bring out a level two please you can can you grab me one little two yep up here oh yeah yeah i did discover this site just give it my hand please oh wow that's good wow he's cool yeah these level twos are really good they give you something there's like the art is just so pretty like you want it i'm putting it out there that's just so bizarre you just did that oh that's cool uh is it though see spear yeah you needed it or an arrowhead arrowhead well because i picture it's an arrowhead but you're like building a stick like a you're building a spear with it spirit but it's it's only this big that's a really small screen sphere okay one thing you should note is that you um you at any point we never mentioned this but at any point you can spend two coins to hire an airplane so if you ever need the entire pilot so if you ever need to do an airplane symbol you can just spend two coins to do that um just to keep that in mind good point good point yes um i'd love to finish out the way these guys going but i'm going to play this crystal earring and when you play an artifact card and you want to use the text you have to pay a tablet that's the cost every time and it's gonna allow me to draw up to three cards yep one two three remember like i did before keep one put one down here and then leave one at the top of your deck so that's it that was my turn oh okay all right so i'm thinking oh well i guess well i'll deal with this first i think it's what i'll do so i am going to oh i can actually i could use this as well see what do i need okay so i need a boot a tablet and a spear okay so here's what i'm going to do i'm going to use my pilot but i'm going to use her for the plane which i'm going to use in place of the boot okay you know what i mean you can do that i can you can use a plane a car or a boat to play for pay for a boot yes so so i'm like flying in with my plane over top of this dragon and you're dropping it and then very good and he's dead so you took care of him okay very good um and that's it that's my turn all right that was good thank you it was actually really good epic very efficient it's like a dragon thing um yeah it's cool no i don't have an airplane to do that um yeah you don't do you so i'm just trying to think of what makes the most sense here for me and i think what i'm going to do is i'm going to spend three compasses and a boat and drive my explorer right here uh right here actually boom and i'm gonna take this and get a coin one coin and bring out a level one site wow oh yeah all right so that's going to give me fear card fear card when you get a fear card you put it right in your play area that is very creepy yeah that is really creepy yeah i get a compass and another ruby okay and we're gonna bring out another big giant ant wow a giant head it's the ant it's the ant okay so now i got both of my explorers are locked in mortal kombat right now okay that's interesting but you've got i've got a lot of resources to get out of this so i'm hopefully going to do that but girls um yeah great okay so i'm going to um i don't really want to do that so i'm going to spend this ruby and this tablet oh i still have a person here yeah i'm surprised you're not using that person interesting i kind of forgot about him so i was so excited about this thing that i had going on that i didn't even do anything okay but i'm going to pay this tablet in this ruby to go up this track anyway i know how i'm going to the middle so i'm not going to get any you just get two points i get two coins yeah take your two two bucks okay so i'm i think it's probably prudent that i start fighting i would say some of these guys off right i'm ready for this battle you guys are like locked in in like the same area too like that guy couldn't like come help like he just had to go uncover something else he's got priorities um i think what i can do is this doesn't do what i need it to do though yikes okay so i'm what i'm gonna have to do unfortunately is um is get an arrowhead because i just don't have one so i'll spend i'll lock one of those guys in to get an arrowhead which is very inefficient but i need to pay an airplane which i don't have one so i'm gonna have to hire a pilot to fly me out to this guy with two coins and then drop my arrow on him to defeat him which is a reward as a i can at any time instantly exile a card which i will do right now okay to start getting rid of some of this fear that i've been accumulating so that's my overcome the first monster yeah now it is your turn i'm thinking about what i want to do this thing is like this the track here it's interesting with the with like your second assistant because it's like great you get a second assistant however is it worth giving up your idol you know i mean yeah i don't think it is and it isn't i guess but uh because i'm thinking now like what i want to do but for right now i'm just actually going to spend these two and i'm going to grab this two coins and arrows buying a bonus one bow several arrows and that goes yeah these look like french fries to me yeah so those those help you actually kill these um overcome these these guardians wait what yeah well actually no they don't they give you bonuses uh exploration for the guardians that you either are you're located with you or they're on your thing because you've both narrows that's right now you're right you're right you're right um okay so you're good there this goes on the bottom yep bottom of your deck so that was your action um so i have to try to get rid of this dude and i will i'll take care of that in a minute but for right now i'm going to spend a ruby and a tablet to move my book up here and that will let me exile another card so here's my second fear card okay exiled nice your turn that's good yeah interesting [Music] um all right so i will place this guy maybe down here because i do need tablets for like lots of stuff two tablets oh i could uh here's what i'm thinking right i could grab tablets or i could go here never mind take a tablet okay all right um so i'm going to defeat this ant but i need two boots so i can pay one boat and one car to pay for those two boots and one compass he's defeated very good nice your turn okay oh wait i went there but i didn't pay a boot you need to pay a boot i'm gonna pay this plane instead that works too so just keeping it honest here no somebody will keep you honest if i know i'm sure there's already a comment she didn't buy the boot sorry [Laughter] uh okay so i will do this i think i might use my path finders sandals and relocate this guy here and activate it that i do not need to pay a boot for but you do need to pay a tablet to use that order yes i do that's fine here you go all right thank you i'm gonna play my army knife choose two different options and i get to choose to exit a card which i don't need to but i will take a tablet and a compass very good your turn okay i'm going to uh first do this i'm going to exile you know what make it a coin sorry okay coin not accomplished i'm going to exile a card and exile this for your card and i'm going to get a compass and i'm going to make sure i don't want any of these oh move one idol on your player board from a slot back to your supply crates that's good oh i really wanted to explore next time but i guess that's so good yeah but it's i mean it does give you it's pretty it would give me a point i would give me two points back so it's kind of like worth two points in a way potentially more um but this is worth getting three points so yeah i'm just going to save i'm going to save my my moolah does that mean you're going to pass yeah i'm going to pass all right i shall pass as well okay so that's it bring her guys back nobody gets any more fear we are we're fearless shuffling oh you got a trash you should have drawn a card first because oh yeah that's right replacing this here we go these all slide down and they all right here we go one two three four five hopefully i've got everything i need to make this work i think i do do you well all right okay you finish this off all right let's see what we're working with here oh nice well it's not that nice i guess i really like to upgrade because i'm not upgrading my uh person i don't think i'm not in that point of my research i guess you know yeah i got a rope maybe i'll maybe i'll use my now ah that stinks oh actually i don't think that bad i think it's very ambiguous um well the thing is i have this rope which is great but it's a boat card lets me it lets me trash a card and draw two more cards but i feel like i'd rather just use my boot okay and get compasses five ugh or i just like hope for the best with this one all right i guess i'm just going to do this and try to see if i can prepare a little bit better so i can use my rope to trash a card well not trash it but put it in my discarded card yeah discard a card i'll discard this card uh actually i don't want to discard the fat or the fear the boot so the only reason i'm really hanging on to this boot to be honest with you is because of that but yeah i would describe the fear by the boot so just create a card now i can draw two okay that's my action very good all right oh yes that's fine as activate any tier one site i'm going to activate this one to get draw a card get a coin and get a tablet your turn awesome i'm gonna do i'm gonna do my bows and arrows so i gain a compass for each guardian on sites i occupy and each that i've overcome max of three i have three other three compasses three compasses there you go thank you um [Music] i'm going to dang it this is so painful it's pretty rough yeah this is actually a really difficult decision but i think i need to do it what do you do oh that's pretty good that's actually pretty good hold on thinking here yeah wow that's a that's brutal um it's just so tight it is very tight right now so i think i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna discard this to get a compass i want a compass and i want another compass two compasses for free to come by come by but my action is gonna be to buy that third one for two yeah the inscribed blade yes what this does is i get to research with a discount of either an arrowhead or two oh nice tablets so i'm gonna just i'm gonna research now with the discount of of an arrowhead so i'm gonna pay two tablets and just slide him right up here oh that's good and you get to no i don't have any i could you the the um the rules on this are you may get rid of a card i don't have to from your hand to your player so i didn't want to do that but i also get to draw a card as my reward from that okay your turn if if you at any point you have to draw a card you get to draw cards and you have none left you don't get to draw cards yeah so there's no like reshuffling yeah just to be clear um all right so i'm going to go up here and explore a site on that site okay and i'm going to pay six compasses so expensive we need lots of calls yeah um and i'm gonna pay i have to pay two boats so i'm gonna pay a boat and i'm going to pay a plane okay my third guardian here and i will get these i can upgrade something and i will upgrade this tablet to a sphere which is the next thing or yeah arrowhead and can you bring me out a level two site please and what do we have at the top here what is that oh it's like a weird medusa owl head thing all right but most importantly look at all the stuff i get yeah that's really nice yeah that's nice uh yeah where's your your explorer oh he's over here a coin a compass a tablet all right and what do i have to fight you have to fight oh that guy's easy the frog the giant frog yeah he's weird he's like yeah he's very weird okay all right all right that's your turn oh boy what am i gonna do now so i just did that so what i'm gonna do is i'm actually going to pay one of my idols to move my magnifying glass up here and rescue and you get to pick from yeah so i've got one that turns boots into i'm gonna do that boots and arrowheads and leave him for you so i just freed that one okay your turn all right so i guess i'll start by killing this thing or chasing away or whatever's happening so here's a car and an arrowhead so you took care of that yep took care of that problem yep okay i'm going to spend a ruby and a coin and move my book up here oh nice take that coin and use upgrade and i get to upgrade so i'm gonna upgrade this archaeologist guy to a gold so now he where he was spend a boot to get an arrowhead now i just get an arrowhead with him nice so it's your turn okay okay uh i could like make a ruby if i want to um or i could play sturdy boots which lets me place this guy with a discount of boots oh that's kind of nice just count with two boots that's pretty good [Music] hmm yeah i'll do that so i'm going to do this um discount of two boots or i could oh or i could just get my ruby that way oh it's all coming together for me hold on sorry um yeah i'm gonna do that instead so i'm gonna pay my car and this boat on my lizard thing that i killed to go here and get an arrowhead and a ruby and a ruby yes sounds good yes okay um i'm gonna pay a plane and and a car okay and move one of my explorers here and take two tablets and a ruby all right i'm going to pay a coin and a ruby to go up my magnifying glass can you push them up there and that lets me draw a card you get the draw drawcard yep i'm going to pay another idle to move my book up here and now what that gives me is a free artifact oh my gosh this one what this one allows me to do is i pay one coin to activate any two different campsites wow that's good so i'm going to take i'm going to take um i'm just trying to see what i'm going to need i think i'm good there yeah wow you need so many of those sneaking tablets so i'll take i'll take this one where i just discard a card and get a ruby okay i've got two of these and then i'll take the should i take the double tablets tablets are good are they though they're pretty good one two yes and no i'll take tablets here i'll take two tablets i'm just trying to see if how efficient this is gonna oh i can't do this darn it did i want to do that yeah i guess so so difficult once you lock up your yeah it's really tough no you know what i'm not gonna do the tablet i'm gonna take the arrow head i'm sorry i'm gonna take an arrowhead okay go ahead my turn yep all right i'll just start doing this then um i'm going to move my book up two spaces which is going to get me um can you move my book up to that thing so i get to draw a card and exile yeah yours thank you all right you good yep um i'm going to now get spin this guy to get an arrowhead and then spend two arrowheads to move my magnifying glass up here and that's going to gold him doesn't really do anything because he's already spent but yeah either way that's so good though your turn um it's like i could theoretically i could move my magnifying glass up there to get that other guy but it's not really gonna do anything it'll get me like basically one extra point because i'm paying three i'm getting four and i get that guy but that would give me essentially three coins and i could buy that journal you know what i mean there's another point so maybe i will do that maybe it is worth it it's just like that trying to figure out like stuff at the end of the game is it worth it you know because it's just kind of like a point for point thing um i can't play my airplane because i have no more workers to place and i can't play my sturdy boots because i don't even work in place darn it and explosion okay well thematically i guess it would make me feel a lot more fulfilled if i rescued that poor guy with all his money okay um so i'll pay an idol pay an idol move my magnifying glass up please no you have thank you this is miner and i will cash them all in for money it's like three months yeah all right good yep that's my third what sorry um okay good so i'm going to spend a ruby and a tablet and move my magnifying glass oh my goodness i get a compass from gosh you've been up so far on that thing yep oh yikes so again good uh yeah i'd be giving up too many points though if i did this in order to get a ruby yeah rubies are tough it's really really tough um yeah it's not it's really not worth it i mean unless i get a fear card by the way what oh okay why but because you get a fear card for being an arrow but i'm just gonna get rid of it for free um okay so here's what i'm thinking now do more math in my head i could i could do this and get a ruby right for one of my coins which would essentially i'm giving up three points to do that if i but if i could move my book up one i could move this guy oop like that that gives me one point and then i could get that thing which another point so i'm still not making my points back by doing that so what's your point my point is i'm i'm gonna lose a lot of points if i do that okay um so i'm just gonna buy that journal all of that for just by the journal just all that just so i could buy a journal um yeah here you go just thinks that your stuff isn't really worth anything at the end of this i know like i'm never going to use this you were up oh look at that [Music] it's a theo delight i can't see it from here oh i'll say tell us okay oh yeah we're so close here i know i'm just gonna i'm just keep pushing up this track because that's what i need i'm trying i'm really really trying believe me um see i could gold him really trying here so what i could do is oh and then i could go there that's so brutal oh i might yeah i might do this yikes ah it's like you get to the end and you think you're done i know and then you realize there's so much more you could do there's a lot more i can do surprisingly there actually is quite a bit i can do here um i'm gonna use this this may be the worst move ever okay um but i'm gonna go i can't wait to see what it is i'm gonna go here and get two compasses that doesn't ruin my game do i want to do that no i want to go here and get one compass and one arrowhead your turn yeah i'm thinking about like i just had this flash go through my head of like what i can do oh wait i play it i paid a car i can't go there that's a boat shoot hmm shoot no well then that's not gonna fail well then i'm gonna just take my extra compass here call it we'll call it call it a day call it a day all right um so i'm like i could move my magnifying glass up because i could still get that stupid ruby by covering this up but i'm i'm going to be minus three points right you know moving up to that thing's only going to give me an extra one point but it'll make one of these people gold and refresh them so i could get three dollars and get that weird telescope but that only gets me another point so i'm still technically negative one point oh what that's funny that means that he's refreshed because when i golded him i didn't refresh him yeah my bad yeah so i wow that that changes everything that changed my whole last move yeah i'm gonna take put these two back and i'm just gonna go with my boat here and take an arrowhead because i need the arrowhead more than i need those things does that help helps a ton okay that just won the game what oh sorry why because i read the rules i forgot that that refreshes them yes yes um oh or i could move no i can't make my book because i have i don't have money yeah see yeah what was i thinking so i was like i could move that up there i don't know i don't know i don't i don't think it's worth it i could probably uh yeah i'm not like thrilled about this but i think i'm gonna have to pass hmm it's just not worth it where i'm at on the track it's not worth it to like because i would have to like spend this to get a ruby i'd be giving up these three points just to move this magnifying glass up it's not going to do anything like i don't need these people really upgraded or refreshed at this point and like i could buy that thing if i got three dollars but again it's gonna give me like one point at the end of the game so unfortunately my and all i have i have my airplane which is awesome and i have sturdy boots which is also awesome but i have no workers and both of these require workers so that's it i pass you're going to pass yeah i'll get a compass just for consistency because why not whoops it's rolled right across the screen all right and you pass i passed i'm done okay well unfortunately i have more to do let's see you finish this thing let's see let's see uh so let me start with playing my army knife okay and i'm gonna take a tablet and a compass we'll start with that okay um and then my next action since you passed will be to spend an arrowhead a tablet and a coin okay that will move my magnifier up here that will give me a fear card fear card okay that i have to kind of consider what i'm going to do with that i'm probably stuck with it actually and then i have an opportunity to take another tablet mm-hmm oh man you're really gonna make it up there or an upgrade action so what i'll probably do is take the i can't believe you did that why no i'm just saying like it's a hard track like you did a you did that well yeah i wasn't really pushing that was tough yeah um i'll probably take the see the thing is i want to do you are like suspiciously close to the supply what do you mean oh for taking my stuff [Laughter] do i want to upgrade an arrowhead to a to a gemstone why would you do that why wouldn't i do that i mean i mean i could right do you i guess are you not planning on going to the top of that thing what i mean why what what would the difference be if i do that so if i turn an arrowhead to a gemstone right you won't have an arrowhead to go up to the top who says it won't have an arrowhead i mean maybe you will i don't know will you i just need one arrowhead so let's do that i'm gonna do the convert action okay so that's gonna turn my arrowhead into a gem right now i can't go to the top what is happening right now now i'm gonna actually spend my gem and my thing to move my book up oh okay and that's going to refresh ah i see okay and get me more points nice right because that's the reward so now if i use that and i get my free arrowhead yeah i can spin an arrowhead a gem and a compass yeah and that brings him up to the top yes into the 23 spot now i get to look at these two and decide which one i want to keep so here's an upgrade or a tablet i don't have the upgrade so i'll have to take the tablet okay which is not ideal i was hoping for something better than that um now what are you gonna do so now i have a choice i have i can try to push up and get so i would need two tablets and a compass yeah another arrow yeah and a ruby these are all things yeah so the way this works uh for the folks at home yeah is that there are three like payment requirements that sort of correspond with actually they do correspond with these lower level two tiles and if you want to pay the corresponding costs then you can get one of those level two tiles if you want to pay two adjacent like this one this one you could actually get the six if you want to or this one this one will give you that six if you've got all those resources then you can actually get the top tile but only if you pay all of the resources [Music] which is problematic but i said it's problematic yeah for me but i can do this watch i'll be sneaky here i'll take a compass and a coin and a coin i'm gonna put him up here and get another compass and a coin oh now my three compasses i'm gonna buy an artifact oh okay this one the stone key or the rattle move your hand so i can read it uh this one because it's going to let me to bring him back okay to my splat crates and he's worth two points okay i'm surprised you didn't get this one that lets you reactivate this guy and get yourself another arrow that would only been two points oh yeah all right uh and i could pull it back so yeah these slides over for me um i'm also going to spend for my next turn these three coins and buy that this thing yeah okay what is that it's like a okay a theo theod theodolite it's like a surveying tool so this is gonna go this will go here but it's where the point yeah so it's good there i spent all my stuff all i have left is this silly tablet which is gonna be worth nothing you could take that home and like put it in your office i could i could do that that's what i walk away with so okay wow what a way to end that ah yeah that's crazy all right i'm not super excited to see how this went that's okay well let me get out the score sheet oh okay and we'll score this up okay i'm really impressed with how well you pushed up that that research track i raced up that track all right so okay let me do that do the honors here all right so let's move those over and then you can do that right there okay and we'll do whoops this is upside down and the scoring is so easy in this yeah so first thing is a try it's a research track yep so you get 23. 23 plus plus five oh eight yeah so 31 okay and i get a measly four five six seven seven okay yeah that's great tiles oh and the next one is we didn't buy any of those tiles i was just short of materials um okay and but i did discover the temple which is what i wanted your i like how you covered up my points on this nice try what is this one here um i'm sorry oh that's these yeah we're doing the yep these ones do these first your idols one two three four five that's 15 16 17 18 22. all right so i got 3 6 9 12 16. okay um your guardians i've got one two three four 20 points do i um all right and now your artifacts and your tools all right so basically take out your starter cards or just take out all the ones with points basically yeah i just everything else other than your starter cards is going to be points so oh yeah and then remember we're going to have to deal with fear if you have them in your hand two three four five six seven eight nine ten ten ten points all right and here minus one minus one okay so let's do some math easy let's do math yay uh 22 33 53 60. wow um 20 30 46 45 55 75 76 76. i was on the wrong side [Laughter] nice wow actually pretty close actually considering you pushed that it pushed up that track um and really good score for the side of the board that was usually we're like in the 60s yeah on the other side of the board yeah that's good this is good awesome all right let's go talk about it all right expedition done successful successful exhibition i would say um i'm really surprised you made it up that track this side of the board is so much more uh it's a bit more expensive i was going to say um i would say difficult but not necessarily difficult it's just because it's just as puzzling on the other side it is it's just it's not as expensive it just seems like on the other side it it it ramps up incrementally as you would expect it to right where this side you have to be a little bit more adjustable right in what you're getting you're not good yeah you're not you're not getting okay i need to get more con like you needed more and more compasses last time on the other side of the board i think on this side you needed more tablets yeah arrowheads definitely like if it felt like this this uh side was a lot more uh resource conversion to get what you need which i actually really like i really like that whereas on the other side of the board it was more like a more compass engine building just try to collect as much as you can yeah which you know is great in its own right because again the compass is obviously you know get you your artifacts and things uh which are really helpful um but yeah wow what a like what a puzzle this thing this was a real good puzzle i was really surprised actually because i was i mean again we go into these things knowing that knowing that the game is popular you know knowing people like it like all that kind of thing yeah um i try not to get sucked into like the hype machine or whatever um so i'm always a little bit more critical when i've like seen a game around you know when you hear a lot of talk about it right everybody's posting about it right we tend to try to stay away from a lot of the discussion from other reviewers because we definitely don't want to be influenced and that's something we really try to try to like be pure about with with what we're um yeah what we have to say and how we're how we're first examining a board game like i don't want to go into this saying well i would say especially before we've played it yes you know what i mean it's like if you if we've played it before and then we want to have a discussion about obviously we do that all the time but um but yeah i mean we want to go into these things kind of unbiased and so i was thinking that this was going to be a lot lighter than it was um and i was pleasantly surprised by the just the degree of com not even like complexity but the degree of puzzliness and it was really really satisfying but also i feel really accessible um we played this with um with one of your sons yeah um yeah aiden who's 12. he's 12 yeah and this game is 12 plus so it's like right at the right perfect yeah but he hasn't he this was like the first heavier game that he's played with us and he picked it up right away picked up the strategy figured it out and had a ton of fun with it yeah um and so we were just so happy to see that because it was like it was one of those ones where it was kind of introduction to real board gaming yeah to like work not just like roll for adventure and the other stuff that we play with the kids and so a deck builder as well which is a little bit more complex to explain to somebody that's the thing it has a little bit of everything right so you've got your engine building you have your resource management you have some conversion stuff you definitely have worker placement you've got deck building so i mean it really is a good introduction as you're as you're uh teaching the game or playing it with uh maybe somebody who's just coming into the hobby you can kind of teach board gaming as you go yeah through this game which was really really yeah when you've got a lot of mechanics but they're not overly complex and they're not um what you call it what's that word and they're um fiddly yeah fiddly that's the word you love that word so when they're not fiddly right and there's there's a lot of games out there that the mechanics are fiddly they're just like oh my god i gotta do this but if i do this i have to do that unnecessarily i have to remember to do this because this there's three different scenarios with you really lose a lot of people right who don't play these games all the time in that in those sort of fiddly rule sets and this one doesn't have any of that right and it's very refreshing sometimes to sit down read a rule book and then understand what it's saying and you're like is there anything else that we're missing here because it seems pretty straightforward and then it is straightforward and i do appreciate that well the first time we played we did miss a very big rule and that was you can only place your workers yeah you can't pull them back you can't move them to another location it's sort of implied that you can but you can't yeah yeah yeah we um the way that we usually go about learning games is like well we'll like read the rule book and you know we'll each read it and whatever we set the game up and then we kind of start playing just like based on our understanding right and we read as we go and it was like we were like halfway through that game we're like i'm like this doesn't make sense well it was taking forever yeah it was like an hour and a half in and we were like at round three yeah like this does not make sense so so but that's all part of the learning process right now it's super fun yeah but we enjoy that yeah um so what else you want to say about this one i think that um so i got to say look we we came into this um without any knowledge of what this game was about right um and we had high hopes based on some of the buzz but again we we try to be you know try to temper that a bit yeah but to be quite honest just um i'll be flat out i love this game like this game is is right in my sweet spot like it's not too complex not like we'd like heavy and like we can play any any level of complicated difficulty on a game right it could be the super heavy game ever and i'm fine with that but i don't always love to play that heavy right i like a good blend of theme and strategy yeah and this nails it right in my sweet spot yeah this is exactly where i like to be right for this type of game yeah and the art's beautiful it is it's so pretty to look at the components are top-notch yeah everything about this game for me is a plus a freaking plus that's really cool yeah yeah like i i you know i do like it's definitely in my top five right now yeah it could be top three oh wow yeah there's no question like i i really like we've played this a bunch of times in the last few days yes and i want to play with four players now like yeah we played it with two we played with three it plays one it's got a solo i'll definitely sneak away and play that at some point and it's got four you know so like come on now like i really want to see how tight it is it's four yeah yeah i think that what i like most about this aside from everything that you just mentioned again is that accessibility piece because more and more i think that we're sort of leaning towards these games that we can pull out and play with a wide audience um that a large part of that audience being the kids now yeah um so the fact that we can play like more serious heavy you know heavier type of games kind of pull them away from you know devices and all that kind of stuff and actually get to the table and spend some time with them um is awesome like and nothing nothing really replaces that so uh if we can pull out a game like this and have that happen for an hour or two um that's just that's great yeah and it's me right in my in my heart yes and this is hit you right in the fields it does rain all the time now this is the type of game where you can bring out a younger uh gamer yeah or someone who's just getting into it yeah who wants to try something cool because the theme will suck you right in oh it does yeah it's just so pretty to look at yeah and and i'm finding more and more lately the the kids are coming down one at a time saying i'm bored right because they're getting bored of these devices they've been playing these on these things for like the last year with covenant and all that so like this is a great so as soon as they come down on board i'm like all right well we're gonna we're just about to play a game so there's your seat i'll deal you in and that's it and this this game you know showcased extremely well yeah absolutely so to to kind of reiterate summarize this is by no means a kids game right um when we talk about the kids unfortunately now they're all like almost teenagers yeah cleaner right at pre-team right but i think that from an audience perspective i am more than happy to sit down with you and play this as very nice to heavy gamers but also um definitely one that will will remain on our shelf for a long time i think because we can pull it out and it has like a long time yeah forever yeah like yeah i have no plans on removing this from our collection so this is definitely staying around for indefinitely um okay sounds good so there's something else can you say about it no i think that's it so um as always we will leave uh lock the first comment yeah pin it and uh please you know asking if this video helps you to make a decision right whether to buy or not to buy if it makes you if either way if it swayed you either way thumb it up because we want to know that you know that you're actually you know getting value from that and if you disagree with us that's okay too so we want to hear about that we love to engage in that kind of back and forth in the commentary and hear kind of what you know what maybe missed the mark for you with this one um because that's i'd love to know that yeah i'd love to hear if you didn't like this one what about it what what was it about this game that you didn't like because yeah yeah i'm having a hard time finding something i don't like about this game yeah okay i really am like i enjoy it that much yeah so okay in case you didn't get that yeah all right all right so uh so there you have it the lost ruins yeah just lost no yeah just no thing lost friends of our knack uh really love this one definitely sticking around so hope you enjoyed the playthrough thanks for watching we shall see you next time you

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Length: 100min 59sec (6059 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 30 2021