Lands of Galzyr Review: A Whale of a Tale
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Mike, Camilla, and Zee discuss their thoughts on this clever and vibrant story-driven game with persistent elements from session to session!
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Such a delight to see so positive words said about our newest game. Glad to hear everyone liked it so much! 😊
Now to see how to put three seals on the cover for the next print run... 🤔
Well deserved! In a time when many games are overwrought, Lands of Galzyr is a breath of fresh air.
I hate when game covers have seals and awards, especially on the front cover. I’m sure it sells games and everyone will keep doing it but it always looks worse
@@codym6376, while I'm generally pretty informed before making a purchase, but knowing it's had good reviews from people I trust will always make me take a chance on a game on the occasions when I'm browsing.
@@17thknight Agreed!
Guys, thank you so very much for making this awesome game. My family and I, we had a blast.
My favorite game of the year. Absolutely charming, with the single best save/set-up and campaign system ever made in a board game. Everything about this game is an absolute delight. It's pure, effortless fun.
So another case of Saami innovating clever tweaks on existing mechanics(Legacy in this, deckbuilding in DoM), rather than simply following like many others?
@@revimfadli4666It's not a legacy, the game's world can be restored to the beginning and it doesn't have stickers for a map or something.
@@Zoitful and that's exactly the clever tweak from "true" legacy?
@@revimfadli4666if the app or website gets take down are you screwed then? Was interested but scared of that happening and making a useless board game. Is that how it works?
SUPER!!!! Congratulations to Sami for designing such a marvelous world!!!!!
Excellent review. Sami Laasko is not just an excellent designer but always seems to go out of his way to provide a good service too. Dale of Merchants is also an amazing deckbuilder.
What an excellent & professional review, guys!!!
Wow wonderful!!! I can't wait to play!!!!
Been on the fence about this one - waiting for this review. Ordered! Thanks guys.
It's almost as if Sami Laakso felt like plain paragraphs weren't enough to describe the world he built around Dale of Merchant so he made a game for it. His standard for production perfection and forward thinking in Dale of Merchant reflect equally in this game.
I like the vibe of this trio reviewing ☺️
Thanks for the review. Yes, this is a great game and fun to play.
Absolutely agree! Great review! One note... kids can play this however just note, they will be making a lot of sketchy decisions... many times theft, burglary, and intimidation are common (almost encouraged) options in the game. So just take that into account for your family. :)
Glad to see this. I have it and need to play it. Thanks!
Me Too!
Like Camilla said I was tempted but it felt like a gamble and I'm sad I lost lol Will look for it in the wild eventually, sounds really neat.
for sure there is more coming, probably to GF, with reprint (or, they will have it in retail anyway)
You can order it from the publisher website now.
There is an expansions planned so it most likely will be reprinted and available again
This was absolutely one of my favourite games of 2022, my wife and I love it. It feels such a relaxing experience
Thank you very much. You guys doing a great job! I was at the point to order ist from Spain (my wife is peruvian) and before I hit the button I´ve decided to look for some reviews. I appreciate the work they´ve done here, but Im looking for an adventure game with more mechanics (like Pandemic Season 0).
A big hug
I absolutely love and adore this game. It is just so much fun and entertaining with a story that sucked me in entirely. For me, it is food for the heart and a cosy vacation packed into the body of the River Kingfisher I never knew I wanted to be.
I was on the fence about this one, but after this I think it's a great fit for my house. I appreciate the effort that went into producing this. Thanks a ton, y'all!
Sidenote: I really enjoyed the three of you as a review team. Great energy there.
This new studio looks and sounds really nice!
Was so hyped for this game and this review makes me even more hyped!
lol I just asked Tom about this. when you would review it. he didn't say much but smiled. He knew...
Such a fantastic game and I was one of the lucky ones to back it!!😀
I had to decide between this and Arydia: The Paths we Dare Tread back in Summer of 2021 and I chose the latter. Glad to hear this one came out alright in the end.
Great review, but I would have liked some comments on player interaction. To me it seems like everyone is pretty much playing their own little adventure with little to no interaction at all. Is that accurate?
There is a setting in the app to have everything read by the app. You don’t have to read everything if you don’t want to.
I always surprises me when people have a lot of difficulty with anthropomorphic animal characters. I grew up watching cartoons with talking/anthropomorphised animals all the time, it was common. For me picturing anthropomorphic animals is basically like harking back the nostalgia of childhood, it comes easy. I guess its what you grow up with :)
I don't believe I heard anyone mention the point system. I felt it is something I use to gauge the amount of successes I rolled during my session but not the degree to which I "won" the game.
What’s the goal of the game? How do you win? Heard someone else say there’s a coop mode and a competitive mode. Don’t really understand the goal or when the game ends.
It’s a fixed number of rounds depending on the number of players. You’re constantly solving quests and little random encounters, and earn points for successfully closing them out. But the score is kind of secondary, just hearing how things play out is kind of its own reward.
The only real difference between competitive and cooperative is whether you compare scores at the end, or add them up and gauge success on the total.
Questions for those that have played it:
Does it work with players swapping in and out between sessions? Or is it better to have the same group each time? Also solo any good?
We designed the game with players swapping between sessions. It's best if the same players use the same adventurers from a game to game, but even that is optional. It was really important to us for the game to be as easy to get on the table as possible. 😊
@@SnowdaleDesign is the game's story kid friendly? Most of my games I play with my kids ages 10 and under.
@@cailin5301 Some stories can include quite heavy topics, but if you read them yourself, you can adjust them on the fly if needed. I've heard people playing the game with about 10-year-olds. 🙂
Think would love get this game. Can't wait one day maybe get it.
Had this game in the cart from the publisher's website for the last few days but couldn't pull the trigger for ~$110 USD with shipping. Told myself before clicking on this video, if it gets at least 2/3 seals of excellence, I'm in. Time to go donate some plasma to refill my gaming budget.
Another note is you will never upgrade your skills to become godly you can only adjust them from time to time. I usually spread them out so I get at least one or two colored dice for every check instead of focusing on one or two traits. How did you manage your skills?
If we said otherwise in the review, that was just a misspeak, but yes you only are swapping skills rather than adding them.
@@thedicetower My apologies I wasn't accusing you of anything, I just thought that was something I didn't expect and therefore possibly worth mentioning. Great review!
Wow triple excellence!
How does this play solo? Did Mike mention that and I missed it?
I've only played the game solo, so you can use my rating as an indication of that! (Mike)
Can agree 100% with Mike, it is a very pleasant solo experience.
Mike had mentioned in the beginning of this video that there was only 1 game of this kind that he'd place higher than this one? i fi understood him correctly...i kept waiting to hear that title wondering if it fits this theme or not because unlike Zee, this everdell redwall watership vibe is soo what i look for in excellent games
Ok, ok… you convinced me. So… when is that expansion coming out? 😅
Thanks for your fantastic review! Better than sleeping gods??
Zee was right about some of the location names sound middle-eastern. two of them, Yezden and Chabahr, seem to be derived of cities Yazd and Chabahar in Iran. also their relative position on the board is somewhat accurate compared to the real cities.
Yeah there’s definitely going to be an expansion, because the rulebook has 2 more playable characters that didn’t come with the game.
What ages is the story appropriate for?
I'd say it's rated PG. I'd compare it to the Wind in the Willows and Secret of Nimh.
Shorts? Man, I'm jealous.
I never realized a pole cat was an actual animal. I always assumed it was some kind of slang term for a stripper.
"Play this not that: Lands of Galzyr vs Legacy of Drangonholt?"
Legacy of Dragonholt started off great and within two hours disintegrated into boredom and repetition and some gnome wedding that never ended. I traded it out I was so annoyed.
Does anyone know if this is family friendly? Meaning does it have some adult themes beyond "fighting"
I don't really care about this game. I just like watching this channel and pretending that all of you nice people are my friends. Thanks!
I'm surprised this one wasn't mentioned in any of the top 10 lists for top 2022 games of the year as there seemed to be a lot of anticipation by some of the folks at the dice tower for it.
This was in both my Top 10 games of 2022 and my Top 10 Solo Games of 2022 lists.
Sounds like it would be great for/to play with kids.
I kept waffling about buying it because of the shipping, and now it's out of stock in the US. 😭
If the game is basically just reading for most part, is there any real player interaction? Sounds like a game most would just simply play multi handed.
Zee hates animals. There. I said it. 😆
How does it compare to Destinies?
Love both - this is a persistent world with "chapters" and no set story arc vs Destinies narrative campaign. Similar to Destinies in the movement/exploration/encounter mechanics and die rolling skill checks. Biggest difference is the tone - this is much lighter than Galzyr's animal character populated fantasy world. I haven't tried Galzyr competitively so I can't speak to that aspect.
I can't find this game anywhere
It's available on the publisher's web store.
it will also go to wider retail, in Europe it is available here-and-there already :)
I'm not interested in an app based game unless they provide a permanent source for the app so you can keep a copy and side load it instead of depending on the app store.
The companion app for Dead of Winter is no longer available. It isn't needed to play the game but it serves as a warning that a part of the game can suddenly disappear.
You can download the entire quest book to your device, so it’s not an issue.
@@michaeldilisio557 but can you download a copy to your PC for backup and side load it at a later time? I want a contingency for if I lose my phone or if it gets reset.
@@roberteltze4850 yes, that’s what I meant. It’s not an app that you download from the App Store. It’s a website. You can download the whole thing to your PC for use whenever.