My plan is to cover the ~20 or so digital boardgames I own and then do a Top X list of the ones I like the most, followed by some physical boardgame reviews/play sessions later on once I've got the setup and time for it.
Gigantic "eat your face" snake is probably my favorite Spirit. Desperately try and hold the line long enough to grow into an unstoppable menace. You just wreak absolute destruction and havoc on anything that dares exist. Pretty sure it was from one of the expansions though.
Yay! Spirit Island! 1) You are not a Kaiju in this game, but a force of nature. Basically the things animistic religions revere. Ocean's Hungry Grasp for example is not a sea monster, but the manifestation of the oceans desire to drown people ;) 2) It's not unfortunate, that all the adversaries are European countries. This game has an anti-colonial theme. It's intentional.
Out of 300+ Board games, this game after the Jagged Earth expansion is my favorite. Unfortunately that expansion is not on the steam app yet, unless you're playing the tabletop simulator mod. Concealing shadows will never prevent blight, only dahan destruction.
Great to see you play the game, had a lot of fun playing it. FYI Blight is whenever there is '2 damage' to the land. Explorers do 1 damage, towns 2 & cities 3. If there is 2 explorers/1 town/1city undefended then the land will blight.
I've played the physical version once with the guy who owns it and really liked it. I do find Keep the Heroes Out to be my favorite solo/co-op game, and it's faster and easier to play than SI is, but they're both excellent.
A houserule we play with is that you don't need to choose minor or major when gaining a power, just draw 4 of whatever and keep one. Still need to forget for a major though
Agreed! The art isn't strictly bad, but it doesn't mesh with the game very well. It might have been one of those situations where they didn't have a proper art director when making the original game, and haven't bothered to hire one to give it a facelift for the digital version or expansions.
@@wanderbots I think that's fair. Digital board games generally don't sell well enough to justify a huge budget for a facelift (Wingspan excluded, going by Steam reviews). Doesn't hold it back from being a great game though!
I don't feel like Spirit Island is really that complex, the base mechanics are fairly simple once you get into the turn order. The complexity comes from the spirits and while Fractured Days, Finder and Dances up Earthquake are real mind twisters the rest are fairly easy to play decently😊
Thanks for the review!! This made the whole team (all 8 of us) super happy :)
I would love to see you guys play more of this or even other board games this was really fun to watch
My plan is to cover the ~20 or so digital boardgames I own and then do a Top X list of the ones I like the most, followed by some physical boardgame reviews/play sessions later on once I've got the setup and time for it.
@wanderbots Wingspan and Terraforming Mars are games I prefer digitally compared to physical, so would recommend those for sure
My favorite board game ❤️. You don't even need to buy several copies, one copy and play together works
Oh boy, my favourite board game being played, gotta watch this
Gigantic "eat your face" snake is probably my favorite Spirit. Desperately try and hold the line long enough to grow into an unstoppable menace. You just wreak absolute destruction and havoc on anything that dares exist. Pretty sure it was from one of the expansions though.
It was a promo , but now you can buy it.
Wow wanderbots is playing Spirit Island, my favorite game of all time! I'd love to see you tackle a few higher difficulty games eventually ❤
Yay! Spirit Island!
1) You are not a Kaiju in this game, but a force of nature. Basically the things animistic religions revere. Ocean's Hungry Grasp for example is not a sea monster, but the manifestation of the oceans desire to drown people ;)
2) It's not unfortunate, that all the adversaries are European countries. This game has an anti-colonial theme. It's intentional.
Some spirits are Kaijus though, like Devouring Teeth
Out of 300+ Board games, this game after the Jagged Earth expansion is my favorite. Unfortunately that expansion is not on the steam app yet, unless you're playing the tabletop simulator mod.
Concealing shadows will never prevent blight, only dahan destruction.
Love that you play my favorite board game its for me so much fun to see more people enjoy it.
Great to see you play the game, had a lot of fun playing it.
FYI Blight is whenever there is '2 damage' to the land. Explorers do 1 damage, towns 2 & cities 3. If there is 2 explorers/1 town/1city undefended then the land will blight.
Good to know!
The other thing is that the invaders deal damage to dahan and the land not 1 or the other. When you add defence it will protect both.
Absolutely love spirit Island! Jagged earth has some awesome and weird spirits to mix things up
I've played the physical version once with the guy who owns it and really liked it. I do find Keep the Heroes Out to be my favorite solo/co-op game, and it's faster and easier to play than SI is, but they're both excellent.
A houserule we play with is that you don't need to choose minor or major when gaining a power, just draw 4 of whatever and keep one. Still need to forget for a major though
But you would either think a minor or a major is the best choice so I cant see myself ever going for a mix hmm
You gotta try the branch and claw expansion!
Great to see Spirit Island. I prefer the board version.
Yay! My favorite board game!
omg this is my favorite board game, i have the newest expansion: nature incarnate, coming soon in the mail (I kick started it)
Hey kicking european colonisers off of islands before they enslave or genocide the locals is a fine idea by me (a European)
The invaders do damage to Dahan and land . Dahan doesn't prevent damage to land.
Love this game, I got into it a couple years ago. (The board game, not the digital)
This game is my obsession! I have all the expansions, and digital version (without the Horizons)
Love Spirit Island and the Steam version is neat, I just wish it was less ugly
Agreed! The art isn't strictly bad, but it doesn't mesh with the game very well. It might have been one of those situations where they didn't have a proper art director when making the original game, and haven't bothered to hire one to give it a facelift for the digital version or expansions.
@@wanderbots I think that's fair. Digital board games generally don't sell well enough to justify a huge budget for a facelift (Wingspan excluded, going by Steam reviews).
Doesn't hold it back from being a great game though!
I don't feel like Spirit Island is really that complex, the base mechanics are fairly simple once you get into the turn order. The complexity comes from the spirits and while Fractured Days, Finder and Dances up Earthquake are real mind twisters the rest are fairly easy to play decently😊
This game looks quite cute
Tbh, I have not much idea what was going on here...