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Welcome to Kovray! A channel all about board games and finding you you're next great one!
Our names are Ilya (he/him) and Tylor (he/him) and we are a couple who loves board games. We hope to inspire the world to play games by sharing our experiences through videos, blogs and photography.
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Our names are Ilya (he/him) and Tylor (he/him) and we are a couple who loves board games. We hope to inspire the world to play games by sharing our experiences through videos, blogs and photography.
Check out and follow us on social media!
Instagram: kovraystudios
Twitter: kovraystudios
Facebook: kovray
Email: contact@kovray.com
Check out our website and make sure to subscribe to our newsletter for monthly updates!
www.kovray.com/
15 Must-Try 2-Player Board Games for 2025 | Our Top Anticipated Picks!
Welcome to Kovray! We're a couple who adores board games and seeks to share our joy and passion with you. Today, we're here to share a list of 2 player games we are SO EXCITED to play this year! Which of these are you anticipating? Let's share our top anticipated picks!
We love playing two player games, as we don't always have access to more folks so our two player collection has been growing significantly over the years. We're over 100 2-Player ONLY games, should we re-do our top ten?
Question of the Day: Which two player game are you anticipating most this year?
🥰 Enjoyed our content and want to support our work? Please consider checking out our:
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Thanks for watching our anticipated list! Have questions? Please ask us in the comments as we're happy to chat about any of the games mentioned with you!
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Time Stamps:
0:00 We Play 2 Player Games
1:14 Honorable Mention
1:52 Shrine: Duel of Light
3:09 Madcala
4:15 Iliad and Ichor
6:14 Capybattle
6:56 Gatsby
8:00 Floristry
9:46 Ace of Spades
10:25 Living Forest Duel
11:11 Furnace Duel
12:00 Azul Duel
13:20 Rival Cities
14:10 Legions
14:57 The Shadow Theater
15:57 Lairs
17:08 Thanks for Watching
17:25 Question of the Day
We cannot wait to play ALL of these!
#BoardGames #Top10 #2PlayerGames
We love playing two player games, as we don't always have access to more folks so our two player collection has been growing significantly over the years. We're over 100 2-Player ONLY games, should we re-do our top ten?
Question of the Day: Which two player game are you anticipating most this year?
🥰 Enjoyed our content and want to support our work? Please consider checking out our:
Patreon: www.patreon.com/kovray
Discord: discord.gg/mqwR9PPpdr
Thanks for watching our anticipated list! Have questions? Please ask us in the comments as we're happy to chat about any of the games mentioned with you!
Follow along our social media to join in on our adventures!
📘Facebook - @Kovray kovray
📸Instagram - @kovraystudios kovraystudios
🩵 Blue Sky - bsky.app/profile/kovray.bsky.social
🕰️Tiktok - @kovraystudios
Time Stamps:
0:00 We Play 2 Player Games
1:14 Honorable Mention
1:52 Shrine: Duel of Light
3:09 Madcala
4:15 Iliad and Ichor
6:14 Capybattle
6:56 Gatsby
8:00 Floristry
9:46 Ace of Spades
10:25 Living Forest Duel
11:11 Furnace Duel
12:00 Azul Duel
13:20 Rival Cities
14:10 Legions
14:57 The Shadow Theater
15:57 Lairs
17:08 Thanks for Watching
17:25 Question of the Day
We cannot wait to play ALL of these!
#BoardGames #Top10 #2PlayerGames
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Finspan Board Game Review | Full Game Deep Dive | Comparison to Wingspan and Wyrmspan
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Welcome to Kovray! We're a couple who adores board games and seeks to share our joy and passion with you. Today, we're here to discuss Finspan, the newest game from Stonemaier Games. We've had the privilege to play this game MANY a times, and we're eager to share our thoughts with you! Finspan is designed by David Gordon and Michael O'Connell, illustrated by Ana Maria Martinez Jaramillo and Mes...
Finspan | 2 Player Full Board Game Playthrough | Birds, Dragons, and now FISH!
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Curious to see a full game of Finspan? Well you've come to the right place, join us on this oceanic adventure and let's learn about some aquatic species together. Finspan is designed by David Gordon and Michael O'Connell, illustrated by Ana Maria Martinez Jaramillo and Mesa Schumacher, and published by Stonemaier Games, who helped sponsor this playthrough. Did you know this video ALSO exists on...
Finspan | How to Play | Learn to Play in 6 Minutes!
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It's ofishial! I'm ready to dive into Finspan. Learn how to play Finspan in just 6 minutes! Finspan is designed by David Gordon and Michael O'Connell, illustrated by Ana Maria Martinez Jaramillo and Mesa Schumacher, and published by Stonemaier Games. Learn More: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/436126/finspan In Finspan, you'll take a role of a marine researcher. Your goal is to introduce fish to yo...
10 Must Play Games Before The End of the Year! | Will We Play Them All?
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Welcome to Kovray! We're a couple who adores board games and seeks to share our joy and passion with you. Today, we're here to share a list of games that we MUST play before the end of 2025. Will it happen? I think it's fairly likely as we do have 11.5 months left! We usually end up playing 25-40 unique games on a monthly basis, so surely we can get these in? Our goal of playing 365 different g...
Cascadia Junior | How to Play | Learn to Play in 4 Minutes!
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Let's match habitats and wildlife. Learn how to play Cascadia Junior in just 4 minutes! Cascadia Junior is designed by Fertessa Allyse and Randy Flynn, illustrated by Beth Sobel, and published by Flatout Games and Alderac Entertainment Group. Learn More: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/433007/cascadia-junior Cascadia Junior is a standalone game that helps teach pattern building, set collection, and...
Kovray Awards | 2024 in Reflection, Statistics and ONE GOAL
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We're back with more celebrations of board gaming! Today, we're reflecting on all the gaming adventures in 2024 and highlighting an incredible year of gaming. In this video, we’re diving into the STATS - how many games we played, how many players, our win percentage, and including some comparisons to the past years. We’re also setting ONE GOAL for 2025 and giving out fun superlatives and awards...
Top 10 Anticipated Board Games of 2025 | Unique Themes, Renowned Designers, and Curiosities
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It’s that time of year again! Together we sat down and reviewed as many games as we could find coming out in 2025, we've created a shortlist of 80, and finally narrowed it down to ten each (with some honourable mentions)! These are games we're excited to check out in 2025! Now, we have not played any of these games so the anticipation is purely on speculation, the art, the designer, the publish...
GiiKER Super Ludo | Reimagining of the Classic | Board Game Preview
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GiiKER Super Ludo is a twist on the classic Ludo with a digitized die and universe events that will keep you on your toes! Will your space ships survive their journey? Check out GiiKER's Super Ludo here: giiker.com/en-ca/products/giiker-super-ludo In Super Ludo, your goal is to get your three ships into space and around the board landing at their destination. You'll roll a die to get your ships...
Top 5 Board Games We Played! | We Love 2 Player Games | December Edition
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Click A Tree | How to Play | Learn to Play in 8 Minutes!
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Horrified: World of Monsters + Krampus Overview & Holiday Giveaway!
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Top 10 Board Games of 2024 | The Hottest Picks Ranked!
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50 Games in 50 Minutes | Azul Duel, El Paso, Crafting the Cosmos and More | PAX Unplugged 2024 Recap
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Catopomp | How to Play | Learn to Play in 6 Minutes!
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Catopomp | How to Play | Learn to Play in 6 Minutes!
4 Perfect Games to Start Your Board Game Collection | 4 Years of Kovray + Giveaways!
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Fromage | How to Play | Learn to Play in 9 Minutes!
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Top 5 Board Games We Played In November! | 45 Plays of 22 Games! | Getting Ready For Year End!
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Monkey Palace | 5 Essential Strategy Tips to Win! | A New LEGO Group Board Game
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2024 Board Game Holiday Gift Guide: Best Picks for Family Fun, Strategy Lovers & Stocking Stuffers!
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10 Must-Play Board Games Before 2025 Hits | I Only Feel Shame About 1, Maybe 2 Being Unplayed...
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Cascadia: Landmarks | How to Play | Learn to Play in 10 Minutes!
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Top 5 Board Games We Played In October! | Seattle Disney Lorcana Challenge | Many Cooperative Games!
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Monarch | 2 Player Simultaneous Movement Butterfly Board Game | Preview Video
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Kelp | How to Play | Learn to Play in 12 Minutes!
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Kelp | How to Play | Learn to Play in 12 Minutes!
Ruins, Oddland, Vegas Strip, and Money! | Four Unique Gaming Experiences | Kickstarter Preview
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Game Night Battle! | Head to Head Board Games | Who's Game Night Will You Attend? Croissants!
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Avatar: The Last Airbender - Aang's Destiny | How to Play | Learn to Play in 6 Minutes!
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Avatar the Last Airbender - Aang's Destiny | Appa and Katara Take On Box 1 | Kovray Playthrough
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10 Most Common Fears and Phobias | Using Board Games to Face Your Fears!
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Great job! Yall are some of the best teachers out there and your b-roll makes me want to improve mine, haha. Thank you!!
Ugh! You guys!! I pride myself in watching these videos and thinking, "Ah good, nothing interested me. My collection will not explode in 2025." But now I you've shown me two games I didn't know about that DO interest me. Living Forest Duel and Shine: Duel of Light. I don't have a lovely furnished basement that I can fill with games, I just have one room. What are you doing to me!?!?
Fun! Im definitely using some of these to trick my spouse in to gaming with me :) Have you two any interest in Star Trek Captain's Chair? That looks like a fantastic 2p heavy card game
@@zln25 I haven’t heard of it but seen it mentioned twice now! Will definitely take a look!
Excellent video, thank you. Very clear.
@@koraytugay glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
What did you say your favorite 2 player game was?
@@EltWilder Aqualin! We should have thrown up a picture :)
@@kovrayIts available on Amazon U.S. now!
heck yeah to this video's title! 👏👏👏
@@Kojimalosophy so many good two player games!!!
Ooooh Furnace Duel? That sounds very interesting! 🤔
Right? Looks quite elevated and different, I’m excited to learn more.
Speakeasy does look good
So good! Hope we get to play it soon!
Only played 1 of those 5. Any guesses?
Hmm Harmonies?
@kovray Cities
@ YESSS Cities is so good!
The platinum trophy is when the person you taught beats you consistently😊
Yes! The true sign of a legendary teacher haha
But did you hear about the two player game that released just today? It's called Dress like a UA-camr and I win... cause I was wearing the exact same sweater (well, I guess sweatshirt?) as Ilya! Shhhh, don't tell our spouses we're twinsies! Realistically I tend to avoid 2p only games. I have a bunch of good ones, but they just don't get played! Otherwise, most anticipated is definitely Star Trek Captain's Chair... kinda cheating cause technically it was released last year, but I've not yet seen it in stock in Canada. Also kind of a cheat as I anticipate I'll play this one almost exclusively solo. Otherwise, having just got and played (solo) Furnace, I'm quite curious about it. Also, we love Azul, so that one maybe... 2 player can be so mean!
I love Dress Like a UA-camr! How amazing, Twinsies indeed! Super fair, if they don’t get played then makes sense to avoid them. Play the player can be mean but there’s a few two player games that are quite friendly.
Great breakdown! My wife and I don't get the chance to play games with other people as often as we'd like so 2-player games are great. These all sound awesome!
Glad we can help! Do you have a go to that you usually play?
Question of the Day: Which two player game are you anticipating most this year?
Probably Azul Duel, Living Forest Duel and Gatsby. I hadn't heard of Shadow Theater before, so I will keep an eye out for that one, sounds interesting... And even though you mentioned so many already, there are 2 other 2 players games I'm looking forward to: Aquatica Duel and Monumental Duel!
Lairs and Azul Duel were both on my top 10 overall most anticipated.
Definitely excited for Lairs. Very glad I backed the KS.
Azul Duel! I've already reserved a copy. Speaking of two-player games, have you tried Botanik?
Gatsby, Iliad and Azul Duel for sure. Thanks for putting some other games in front of me too though. #walletbye
We played this game for the first time. Very surprised to see how close the score was at the end. (Within 10 point with 3 players) Everyone’s forest took a completely different strategy. One focused on trees and mushrooms , one focused fox and rabbits, and I focused on deer and bats. We were all surprised how close the scoring resolved. Very well balanced game with so many opportunities of play technique available.
@@HenHaven_Homestead It’s such a phenomenal game, adding the expansions makes it even better in my opinion!
I think we’ll run through this game a few more times before adding expansions. Personally I was a bit overwhelmed at first. About halfway through it started to gel. Looking forward to the next game.
Great playthrough sounds like a lot of fun ! As a big Wingspan fan, I did not care for dragons buuuut I am sold on the fish version !!!
Glad you enjoyed! Thank you so much for watching, hope you get to play Finspan soon!
Omg you’re both so cute thank you for teaching me
@@Pollenoverponds You’re super welcome!
Thanks a lot, gentlemen, for honoring our whole teams hard work on shuffling (sic!) more trees (and species) into Forest Shuffle :)
Truly one of the best games of the decade! ❤️❤️❤️
I like the idea of an insect span!
It would be so fun and educational!
Great video. Ready for game night. Здорово Илюша
Glad we could help! 👋
Actually it's a tie if I'm not mistaken. Tyler gave 25 points to Ilya for 4 schools instead of 24. Great video!
They also should each have had an extra egg, if I'm not mistaken - Ilya didn't tell Tyler when he activated an all players egg at one point, and when he did the dive where he almost missed an egg near the top, he did miss one further down.
Tylor won! I also missed giving him an egg at 31:52 ! That’s two points! Good catch!
Salamander/frog/lizard-span... Anyway, looking forward to the Finspan expansions with more water creatures... Totally agree with your opinions about the educational aspects! Wingspan and Finspan are documenting the beauty of the animal world on earth... Playing and learning together 😎
That’s the best! Have some fun and learn things together :) This is why board games are great :)
So cute!!
❤️❤️❤️
I don’t know how I didn’t know about you guys until today. Totally hooked now.
Yay, welcome!
I’d like to see an insect-span. Butterflies, dragonflies, damselflies, beetles, etc.
Most likely to end a friendship! Too true for Perch! Love it!
RIGHT! Those birds be dangerous
Great overview and review! Very thorough overview, used it as a rules tutorial basically.
@@Ole_Ev54 Amazing! Glad it was helpful :)
Is this just wingspan but with fish? Or does it add anything more to the game like wrymspan did?
@@fizzy965 I feel like it’s quite different. Cards are open information, you can place anywhere on the board, there’s a fish movement aspect that’s core to the game, and how you obtain resources is quite clever. I think it has a touch of the original mechanics but the game feels quite different. You can take a look at our review if you want to learn more :)
@kovray thank you. I always wanted to try wingspan, but never got around to buying it. Then everyone said Wyrmspan had a better flow/end game and didn't fall as flat at wingspan. Plus dragons are pretty epic so I bought that. I really love fish but not sure I can justify owning both 😄
Depends on the category but one of my favorites is the Pacific Spiney Lumpsucker
ITS SO CUTE! Yet a bit devious, I love it!
@@kovray I KNOW RIGHT?! and they are so bitty! only grow to be about the size of a small ping pong ball
0:05 they love more things than playing boardgames together - that's for sure!
We love lots of things! It’s always a joy to discover a new hobby or passion.
@@kovray Facts! I'm actually building a card-game with a foundation simular to Forest shuffle. I"ll send a copy when it's done :D
One of my favorites is the spinner shark. If you want to see a beautiful aerial display, check out a video of these sharks flying through the air!
Oooo very cool! Will definitely take a look.
haft to say this does not look good at all. but hopefully there next game will makeup for it.
@@Jueglar Oh, we really enjoyed it.
Have to agree with you. Unsurprisingly all the early youtube reviewers love it, wonder why.
@Jueglar im curious to know, What are the things you dont like about it?
@ they get a free game and most time says paid promotion LOL
@4alex2g the fact that it looks like Finspan Jr good art on the cards then they just throw in the cartoon looking tokens which are the only tokens as the cards themselves are used as tokens for payments it honestly just looks like they called it in like yourr playing a draft of what the game started as and they never did a final draft just said PRINT and called it a day. Pretty much this like what would of came out first before they worked out all the bugs they fixed the resource issue in wingspan with wrymspan but not they just took a giant leap backwards, Why?
Monsterspan! 😂
@@jkledis 👻
Question of the day: What would you like the next "SPAN" game to be?
Dinospan, of course 🦕 🦖
Something botany related with a little shop mechanic could be really cute
With so many video games being made into board games, I'm thinking that Pokémon a Wingspan game would be awesome!
@@jeffwmoore I recall reading that Stonemaier had reached out to the Pokémon company in the past about making a Pokémon version but they weren’t interested.
Literally the span series are becoming nuanced top trumps
Question of the day: What is your favorite fish?
Question of the day: If you were to dive anywhere in the world, where would it be?
It was so fun playing with you both at Pax U!
@@Panda8ngel yessss so lucky that we were able to do that together :)
I preordered it and didn't get the promo. Wondering if it is worth it to buy it and sell a copy just to get the promo.
I don’t think we have the promo either, might be especially with how popular the game is, or share your copy as a gift to someone if you get the one with the promo?
@@kovray I thought about that! I have a friend I know would love the game!!
I still don't understand the last scoring phase, 1,2,3 ... whatever
Yeah that one is a bit tricky. You essentially get a set of points 1/3/6/10 for DIFFERENT feature tiles either on land or on water. So for example, if I have 3 different landmarks on water, I would score 6 points and if I have 1 different (unique) landmark on land I would only score one. This also happens for every land and water space, so multiples can be scored.
Im in love with this game!!
ITS SO FUN!
Great playthrough thank you ! The game seems great, not sure I will be getting it but it is definitely being considered .
Thank you so much for watching 🥰
Are all those shelves in your collection??!! 😲
They sure are! These and more!
😮@@kovray
There are so many to get done or try out i haven't been able to get to... some hopefully soon like Darwin's Journey, Unconscious Mind, Townsfolk Tussle.... also Civolution, Endeavor Deep Sea, Speakeasy as big ones. I played Barrage a while ago and love it but didn't add it to the collection because I'm not sure of that for primarily solo. However, if you're at GAMA, let's get a game in (I can even TRY to learn it enough to teach if it happens to be around but doubtful, I'm sure, haha).
Such a big one to lug around thoughhhh! We will definitely share a game at GAMA though :)
@kovray yes pleaseeeeeee 😁😁😁
Played and own all 5!
Woo hoo! ⭐️🌟⭐️🌟⭐️
Solstis is SO good!
SO FUN!
CELEBRATION OF SUCCESS for playing Stonespire Architects! My must-play this year is definitely from the "shelf of shame" because it was one of the first few games I ever bought (June 2022) and is still in the shrink: Dinosaur Island.
WOO HOO! See everyone says StonespiRe, I dont feel as bad now haha! We've never played Dinosaur Island, but have played Dinosaur World.
I hope to get Scarface 1920 played in 2025, I've had it for almost a year and not learned it yet ! Barrage is great, I wish we lived close so I could teach it to you !!! I do think it plays better with more than 2p but we play exclusively at 2 and I would much rather play it at 2 than not at all. I got the Duel map this year which is much tighter and greatly improves the 2p experience, check it out if you plan to play it at 2 as well !
Ooo that sounds very interesting, I'll look into it! I didnt know there was a Barrage duel map, but definitely sounds like we'll need to play at a higher player count. Excited to check it out.
Sankoré is fantastic! I would teach it to you, but we'd have to set up both our copies and then FaceTime since I'm in Helsinki. If you're up for that then so am I because I love teaching games to people. Games that haven't been played in my collection? I'd say that they are mostly expansions, but the worst one must be the expansion to On Mars. It's such a heavy game as it is, so before I play that I have to relearn On Mars and get others to play it enough before I can introduce the modules of the expansion.
We’re guilty for that one too, the expansion looks incredible but definitely daunting as we’d also have to relearn the game basically. Good to know Sankoré is great, even more motivation!
I learned how to play Stonespire Architects on Board Game Arena. Barrage is on there, too, but I didn't figure that one out there with my one play, but I also didn't try the tutorial, ha. Pax Pamir is on BGA as well, and I think it plays okay at 2, but more players is usually more fun with area control and negotiation.
BGA just doing all the hard work out there. I feel like we’ll succeed with Barrage sooner than later.
Never heard of any of these except photograph which is a great game and only takes about 20-40 mins to play you will enjoy it alot and catan which i just wont play after the first and only time i played it its beyond boring but thanks for a list that i have never seen, one of the reason i love you guys is you all show lots of different games not just the ones everyone knows :)
BTW if you have a target near you they are clearanceing there games section again this year 70-90 percent off.
We loved Photograph! Glad we could showcase some games you didn’t know about, and sadly as Canadians we don’t have Target :)
they had the full villainous star wars and disney sets the 50.00 ones down to 11.99 apparently one lady bought them all for a store she owns so i didn't get any either lol
last year thou i got like 10 lol including The Real Truth which is just a fantasssssttttiiicc game highly recommend
Oooo! Prodigal's Club is on our list to play soon too! Have you played Last Will? I love that one!
We haven’t! It’s in a similar line of games right?
@@kovray yes!