Episode 342: Rewild South America and The Culture of Play

Good morning and happy Wednesday! Let’s get busy with some of the great games the founders have been playing, including Echoes of Time, Dracula vs. Van Helsing, Dark Pact, First Giants, and Citizens of the Spark, along with a feature review of Rewild: South America from Bruno Liguori Sia. Then, after Tony T gives us the best gaming news he can find, we dive into the culture of play in your gaming group. We discuss a situation with a Cabalist from our BGG forum, how we schedule game nights, how we pick games, and our motivations for gaming together.

Timecodes

• Echoes of Time: 00:04:01

• Dracula vs. Van Helsing: 00:12:23

• Dark Pact: 00:22:34

• Citizens of the Spark: 00:31:43

• First Giants: 00:40:57

• Rewild South America Review: 00:48:05

• News with Tony T: 01:23:17

• The Culture of Play: 02:15:22

Opening Banter and Reviews

• Echoes of Time

• Dracula vs. Van Helsing

• Dark Pact

• First Giants

• Citizens of the Spark

Feature Review: Rewild South America

Rewild: South America is a unique, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game for nature enthusiasts with a heart for wildlife that can be enjoyed in 45-60 minutes. The thematic focus of Rewild is on the fauna and flora of the South American ecoregions Caatinga, Gran Chaco, Cerrado, Pantanal, Amazon rainforest and Atlantic rainforest. These 6 ecoregions and all their inhabitants exhibit diverse interrelationships and dependencies. One of the core concerns of game author Bruno Liguori Sia, who lives in Brazil himself, was to depict and convey this complex network in a game. In terms of game mechanics, Rewild has a straightforward foundation. On their turn, each player plays a card and chooses one of two depicted actions. After carrying out this action, the player can attract animals and plants on display to their ecosystem. As soon as a player has 8 (or 9) face-up animal cards in front of them, the end of the game is triggered.

Designed by Bruno Liguori Sia

Published by Treecer

BoardGameGeek.com Entry

Gaming News by Tony T

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