Cheers. There is certainly a place for long and detailed reviews. My thoughts were that this could become the channel people go to to get a first glance, and see if they want to dig deeper to a longer review or playthrough, or if the basic idea of the game was not for them so they can skip spending all that time.
Exactly! Just the right amount of information I need. I especially like the recommendations at the end - "if you like this and that, take a look at soandso..." Great!
Holy mackerel! I can hardly believe how good this video is. You told me *so* much at the perfect pace. You made the video about the *game* rather than about *yourself*. Other reviewers could learn from you. Thank you for such an excellent video.
Cheers J.W. One of my unofficial mottos/vision/core ides for the channel is "The game is the star". I'm way more interested in showing the game than trying to be a "you tube star". I leave the "me me me" stuff to the longer format vids I do on occasion. My "ten games I have played way too often" is about as personal a video as I think anyone has done in board game media. But i leave those for special occasions.
You are very quickly becoming one of my favorite UA-cam Channels, Tom Vassel will always be my favorite reviewer but I love some of the things you do that he doesn't, like suggesting similar games you may like depending on the mechanics, great job mate.
Cheers Daniel. I like Tom as well. Although i find myself agreeing with Sam's tastes a little more than Toms. Those guys are the gold standard in the hobby. That said, i have to skip the box drop thing they do :)
Thank you for these videos. I've had some medical issues which have caused me to miss work for the past year. I got into this hobby and it has really helped me stay positive and focused on something else. Can't wait to play this one and keep up the great work.
Cheers Jonathan. I've also had to take extended time off from medical issues and the hobby was a great help then. I did a video on it "top ten games I have played way too often". Talking with the solo community in particular, this phenomenon is way more common than you might expect.
Why is it so difficult to remember that enlisting a recruit gives you a bonus when you take the corresponding action, as well as when either of your neighbours does?
So Scythe, A near perfect hybrid of American games and Eurotrash, or a Frankenstein monster assembled from their parts? Lol sorry I couldn't resist. And didn't realize until I copypasta'd that it was the OP's comment hehe. Great review, super complex lengthy explanations everywhere and you nailed it in 3m? Beautiful. And I'll echo others and say thanks for the recommendations. To answer your clearly non biased question :p I would say yeah, definitely leans more heavily on the euro stuff, which is great for Yankee peeps like me who could never really get into games like Warhammer. Plus the whole clever upgrade system is just sooo cool. It's like a video game but, like, on my table :D
Wonderful channel and good video as always, I get that for the full info you need a 15 - 30 minute video but sometimes I just want to know in a very short video how a game works, what it is and so on before delving into one of those larger reviews
Not much in common asides from the resources you gather. There is no real randomness for starters, no dice rolling and no trading and you can attack each other directly.
The quality of content in this video is staggering. The measure of ones knowledge and teaching ability is directly related to how quickly and effectively they can get the concept across. 3 mins? Phenomenal. You were so respectful of my time I will be checking out the Lords of Hellas video you made also, smashing both likes, and beating the sh*t out of that subscribe button. Thank you good sir.
Love this comment Russ, absolutely love it. I started the channel for exactly that reason, I wanted to find out about games but didn't want to spend ages doing it, i figured I wasn't the only one thinking that way, and as the content didn't exist, i said "f*** it, i'll do it", and here we are :)
Unofficial 5p language dependency meter - should you pick a copy in another language? 2p. Icon/colour/number dependent, 1p text dependent, 0p reading dependent - 1.5 (almost no text) 1p Minimal verbal communication / Full cooperative - 0 1p Available rule book in different languages - 1 1p Zero cultural/political agrresion - 0.5 (fantasy version of real cultures) -1p Multiple modern mechanisms - 1 Final language dependency: 2p May work for experienced board gamers, if everyone can recognise the alphabet, and if there are no heavy cultural tensions.
Having now played Scythe twice, and played solo, I really can appreciate how much you crammed into three minutes. Having only played solo mode, I would love to see a solo video. Which reminds me, it's time to support on Patreon.
Good series of reviews. I see Scythe far more as a Euro with a little bit of safe combat than as a wargame. Eclipse is far more the hybrid, or even TI4. I think the engine building is quite fun & the art is of course superb but not the best thing ever.
The hybrid aspect i'm thinking of most is the production values. Mechanically, its mostly a Euro. Presentation wise, its a bling bling, dollar dollar game.
@@3MBG The books were reccomend to me but I've not yet got round to reading them yet, I've looked into it a bit closer now and they don't seem to be connected.
@@BIGNOIDS Ah yep, i looked them up as well. Totally unconnected. Scythe was based on some art work showing mechs hanging around early 20th century peasants.
I loved the way you explain the game in gist. I am new to this industry and was research. Was reading the comments below and it seems like gamers have some complaints with this game. I am curious to know what you think about this genre of board/card games: Catan, Scythe, Civilisation...What are the major problems you or you heard people experiencing with these?
@@3MBG So for example, in case of Scythe you heard someone saying "Combat hardly occurs". For Catan and Civilization - what are the common complaints you heard off or experienced? Is there any common line of complaints or source of dissatisfaction?
@@MachineLearningforMentalHealth Ah, for Catan its that with experienced players, without bizarre trades happening, you can have a pretty good idea who will win based on the setup. For Civilization, its the playing time the game can go for hours and hours. And for Scythe, its that people thought it looked like more of a wargame than it is.
@@3MBG Thank you for the insight. So I learnt from you is: A game that is unpredictable, time-bound (ends quick), and more battle-focused is what people want. Is that correct?
Well I haven’t played any board games like this, we’ve been playing some TCG games recently. But I’ve been looking at board game videos across UA-cam, I mentioned Scythe and Gloomhaven because they’re most popular on amazon and took my interest the most. What would you suggest for 2+ newbs then? thanks for the reply, great video
Cheers. I think both games are quite busy and have a lot of mechanics in them. I'm hesitant to recommend them as start points, just because they might be a bit overwhelming. Of the two, scythe is the more accessible. Gloomhaven has a lot of rules. But TCG's can be pretty complex with a lot of card interactions and weirdness, so you might be ok. I did some vids on games for people new to the hobby a while back if you want to check them out. But if you do want to dive right in. Scythe is probably the easier choice
Yeah, should be. The big thing to note is its less confrontational than it looks. It looks like you should be fighting with your mechs a lot, but you might fight 1-3 times a game
How is that map Europe?? I was interested until I watched gameplay. They need a bigger map with smaller hexes, and a Total War mod that allows Risk style total warfare mode for victory.
Money is just what victory points are called in the game. It is still a victory point game at its core. Just because you convert points into a money total doesn't change that mechanically, its a victory point game.
It has an automata deck, which can be used to have an AI opponent play against you. There are 3 decks in the game, so you could play against 3 opponents that way. You can also get some apps that replicate those decks. Some people really like the solo mode, I think its ok personally, but not the best.
drekson, also look into the Fenris expansion, it adds a campaign that can be played solo! And once you unlock a feature from the campaign, it can be added to single plays later as well. Or you can replay the campaign.
Hi! I'm looking for a new game for my birthday list was wondering if scythe would be fun. My group is fans of games suspenseful games like One-night ultimate werewolf, Clank, Dead of winter, Root, exploding kittens, Pandemic, ticket to ride, and many others, do you think Scythe would work? If not what others would you recommend?
Not sure. I find it hard to recommend games to the individual. All i can say is after the video, did you think "that looks like fun" or not? Scythe is a very good game, but its not for everyone. But if your group can handle Root, you should be good with it
Nah, i'm good. This isn't a "how to play" or a rules instruction video. If you are trying to learn to play the game from it, you are using it wrong. It's just to give an overview of the game, nothing more. Stuff flies past fast enough as it is without cluttering the screen with more words.
Cheers G Sub. That was entirely the plan. I don't see a lot of point in imitating another channel. And I really recommend Watch it played, gaming rules and jon gets games for proper "how to play" vids. I think of my vids as being almost like a trailer for a game. Enough to know if you want to look deeper, or if you will have no interest in the game
Yeah, it's one of the higher complexity ones out there. Lots to keep track of in the game. Definitely not one i recommend to people who want something light and easy to learn (the box is also not light, weighs a ton)
Played a couple of games and it's just not working for our game group. The lack of interaction is killing the experience for us. Combat hardly occurs, only really because we were bored doing the other stuff. And there's no strategy as far as we can tell, you have to do everything on your board, and the order in which you do it is pretty much irrelevant. We also never had the feeling that we were in competition and racing to the finish ahead of the others. We just did our stuff by ourselves, and then suddenly it's over and no one had a clue who was ahead. Just count the points, and oh I guess you must've won. Very disappointing since the game looked so promising and the art is amazing.
Subcomandante73 I’m going to give this game more plays before I agree or disagree, but so far I’m just not feeling it. I think in general that worker placement games may not be for me.
This is the way to do board game how-to/reviews. Short and sweet!! Well done!
Cheers. There is certainly a place for long and detailed reviews. My thoughts were that this could become the channel people go to to get a first glance, and see if they want to dig deeper to a longer review or playthrough, or if the basic idea of the game was not for them so they can skip spending all that time.
Exactly! Just the right amount of information I need. I especially like the recommendations at the end - "if you like this and that, take a look at soandso..." Great!
Seriously
Holy mackerel! I can hardly believe how good this video is. You told me *so* much at the perfect pace. You made the video about the *game* rather than about *yourself*. Other reviewers could learn from you. Thank you for such an excellent video.
Cheers J.W.
One of my unofficial mottos/vision/core ides for the channel is "The game is the star". I'm way more interested in showing the game than trying to be a "you tube star".
I leave the "me me me" stuff to the longer format vids I do on occasion. My "ten games I have played way too often" is about as personal a video as I think anyone has done in board game media. But i leave those for special occasions.
I like this format a lot. Gonna binge some videos
I love how this video was straight to the point and didn't waste any of our time
You are very quickly becoming one of my favorite UA-cam Channels, Tom Vassel will always be my favorite reviewer but I love some of the things you do that he doesn't, like suggesting similar games you may like depending on the mechanics, great job mate.
Cheers Daniel.
I like Tom as well. Although i find myself agreeing with Sam's tastes a little more than Toms. Those guys are the gold standard in the hobby. That said, i have to skip the box drop thing they do :)
You’re honestly my favourite channel to see wether I’d like a board game or not. Great job!
I love this channel, it is EXACTLY what you need when browsing for new games :D
I love the straight to the point format. Subscribed!
Such a concise and clear review. Just bought it on Steam yesterday. Thank you so much!
Thank you for these videos. I've had some medical issues which have caused me to miss work for the past year. I got into this hobby and it has really helped me stay positive and focused on something else. Can't wait to play this one and keep up the great work.
Cheers Jonathan. I've also had to take extended time off from medical issues and the hobby was a great help then. I did a video on it "top ten games I have played way too often".
Talking with the solo community in particular, this phenomenon is way more common than you might expect.
Amazing! Love your videos 👌🙏
Loved the recommendations at the end! This is how things should be done
One of my fav games! Love the various options to earn points. Thx for the great review
Your painted mechs and characters look awesome.
Cheers Tim.
This was incredible. Great Job!
Great video...clear and entertaining to boot!
Sounds great, beautiful...and a little bit complex, excellent presentation anyway!
I think I just want this to be a comic book
Fair, the art is amazing
Why is it so difficult to remember that enlisting a recruit gives you a bonus when you take the corresponding action, as well as when either of your neighbours does?
Legitimately have been playing that wrong the whole time. Cheers Klaus.
You will get used to it. :)
Great job! Really like this concept.
Nicely concise.
Perfect explanation and review!
So Scythe, A near perfect hybrid of American games and Eurotrash, or a Frankenstein monster assembled from their parts?
Lol sorry I couldn't resist. And didn't realize until I copypasta'd that it was the OP's comment hehe. Great review, super complex lengthy explanations everywhere and you nailed it in 3m? Beautiful. And I'll echo others and say thanks for the recommendations. To answer your clearly non biased question :p I would say yeah, definitely leans more heavily on the euro stuff, which is great for Yankee peeps like me who could never really get into games like Warhammer. Plus the whole clever upgrade system is just sooo cool. It's like a video game but, like, on my table :D
Wonderful channel and good video as always, I get that for the full info you need a 15 - 30 minute video but sometimes I just want to know in a very short video how a game works, what it is and so on before delving into one of those larger reviews
Nicely done, thanks.
Such a real and dope video.
Thanks great summary
It looks like a more complex Settlers of Catan. =)
Not much in common asides from the resources you gather.
There is no real randomness for starters, no dice rolling and no trading and you can attack each other directly.
@@3MBG really nothing like catan
@@Scannable Yep, i was being polite.
The quality of content in this video is staggering. The measure of ones knowledge and teaching ability is directly related to how quickly and effectively they can get the concept across. 3 mins? Phenomenal. You were so respectful of my time I will be checking out the Lords of Hellas video you made also, smashing both likes, and beating the sh*t out of that subscribe button. Thank you good sir.
Love this comment Russ, absolutely love it. I started the channel for exactly that reason, I wanted to find out about games but didn't want to spend ages doing it, i figured I wasn't the only one thinking that way, and as the content didn't exist, i said "f*** it, i'll do it", and here we are :)
@@3MBG Legendary my man
So Scythe, A near perfect hybrid of Ameritrash and Euro games, or a Frankenstein monster assembled from their parts?
Unofficial 5p language dependency meter - should you pick a copy in another language?
2p. Icon/colour/number dependent, 1p text dependent, 0p reading dependent - 1.5 (almost no text)
1p Minimal verbal communication / Full cooperative - 0
1p Available rule book in different languages - 1
1p Zero cultural/political agrresion - 0.5 (fantasy version of real cultures)
-1p Multiple modern mechanisms - 1
Final language dependency: 2p
May work for experienced board gamers, if everyone can recognise the alphabet, and if there are no heavy cultural tensions.
Having now played Scythe twice, and played solo, I really can appreciate how much you crammed into three minutes.
Having only played solo mode, I would love to see a solo video. Which reminds me, it's time to support on Patreon.
Awesome, just in time for the new poll as well.
@@3MBG Done.
Welcome unboard Robert :)
This is what I like to call a big brain game.
Scythe is one of the best board games ever created, hands down a true masterpiece and classic!
Amazing job! Especially having seen your ‘making of’ video. You invest many hours to save us MANY MANY hours. ❤
Thank you Rodrigo, glad you appreciate it
Looking g for a one player board game to buy asap for Christmas alone. Looking at this and Evedell. Any recommendations welcome.
Neither for just one play. Check out my top 33 solo games video for my picks for solo games
What was the first game you recommended at the end?
Caverna
Wait a minute. Doesn’t this board game have a video game based on it? An RTS if I remember correctly
Iron harvest i believe it is called
Thank you.
What is the spelling of the two games you recommended at the end? I’m typing based on what it sounds like you said but hard to find results so far.
Caverna: The cave farmers and Lords of Hellas. (reminds me, this video needs decent subtitles)
Late to the game on this comment but really good video. I love the game referals at the end and why it might not be right for you! A+ 🤘😁
If you have a PC. Download iron harvest. It’s based off this. Beautiful game
This was created
Into an RTS
Its a beatiful game, called IRON HARVEST
Are the mechas painted by creators, or did you repaint it yourself?
The ones we got are in general faction color.
Painted myself. More pics here, vom-krieg.blogspot.com/2017/12/scythe-complete.html
This seems so complicated😂
Good series of reviews. I see Scythe far more as a Euro with a little bit of safe combat than as a wargame. Eclipse is far more the hybrid, or even TI4. I think the engine building is quite fun & the art is of course superb but not the best thing ever.
The hybrid aspect i'm thinking of most is the production values. Mechanically, its mostly a Euro. Presentation wise, its a bling bling, dollar dollar game.
Is the game anything to do with the trilogy of books?
Which books?
@@3MBG The books were reccomend to me but I've not yet got round to reading them yet, I've looked into it a bit closer now and they don't seem to be connected.
@@BIGNOIDS Ah yep, i looked them up as well. Totally unconnected. Scythe was based on some art work showing mechs hanging around early 20th century peasants.
I loved the way you explain the game in gist. I am new to this industry and was research. Was reading the comments below and it seems like gamers have some complaints with this game. I am curious to know what you think about this genre of board/card games: Catan, Scythe, Civilisation...What are the major problems you or you heard people experiencing with these?
Those are 3 very different games. Can you be more specific?
@@3MBG So for example, in case of Scythe you heard someone saying "Combat hardly occurs". For Catan and Civilization - what are the common complaints you heard off or experienced?
Is there any common line of complaints or source of dissatisfaction?
@@MachineLearningforMentalHealth Ah, for Catan its that with experienced players, without bizarre trades happening, you can have a pretty good idea who will win based on the setup.
For Civilization, its the playing time the game can go for hours and hours.
And for Scythe, its that people thought it looked like more of a wargame than it is.
@@3MBG Thank you for the insight. So I learnt from you is: A game that is unpredictable, time-bound (ends quick), and more battle-focused is what people want. Is that correct?
@@MachineLearningforMentalHealth I wouldn't say that, as Scythe is incredibly popular. I would say that is a common opinion among its detractors.
Im new to real boardgames, what would you recommend, this or Gloomhaven?
thanks!
Neither if i'm honest if you are very new. But tell me a bit more about what you've played to date and enjoyed so far and i'll try to help
Well I haven’t played any board games like this, we’ve been playing some TCG games recently. But I’ve been looking at board game videos across UA-cam, I mentioned Scythe and Gloomhaven because they’re most popular on amazon and took my interest the most. What would you suggest for 2+ newbs then?
thanks for the reply, great video
Cheers. I think both games are quite busy and have a lot of mechanics in them. I'm hesitant to recommend them as start points, just because they might be a bit overwhelming. Of the two, scythe is the more accessible. Gloomhaven has a lot of rules.
But TCG's can be pretty complex with a lot of card interactions and weirdness, so you might be ok.
I did some vids on games for people new to the hobby a while back if you want to check them out. But if you do want to dive right in. Scythe is probably the easier choice
3 Minute Board Games thanks, I’ll check out that video ! Subbed 🙂
Do you think this would be a fitting game for a group who loves terraforming mars, heaven and ale, dominion and caverna?
Yeah, should be. The big thing to note is its less confrontational than it looks. It looks like you should be fighting with your mechs a lot, but you might fight 1-3 times a game
What is the first title that you advised at the end?
Caverna?
@@3MBG thanks
cant believe i still fast forward this 3 min explanation... btw good to have alternative game at the end...
Wow, not sure i can make it more concise :)
good post.
To the point video. We'll done.
Thank you
Scythe in 3 minutes, why not explain the history of the world while you're at it ;P this is really well explained however haha, I'm impressed
imean, you can explain the history of the world in about 19 minutes and 26 seconds :p
Ha, i missed this. That's one of the best vids on you tube. Along with his Japan one
Where did the audio go?
Can you be more specific? The sound seems fine to me
How is that map Europe?? I was interested until I watched gameplay. They need a bigger map with smaller hexes, and a Total War mod that allows Risk style total warfare mode for victory.
So, you want a completely different game? Lol
3 Years Ago Iron Harvests Concept Was this
True.
If you can please add subtitles. It will be more helpful than auto generated captions.
Will do. I've been doing them for all the new short vids, just haven't gotten to all the old ones.
Objective is to have the most money at the end.
Instead you said Victory points while showing the Popularity track. :P
Money is just what victory points are called in the game. It is still a victory point game at its core. Just because you convert points into a money total doesn't change that mechanically, its a victory point game.
Is this game can played as 1 player competitively? I like this game but I heard it's not as greatvas mageknight solo player.
It has an automata deck, which can be used to have an AI opponent play against you. There are 3 decks in the game, so you could play against 3 opponents that way.
You can also get some apps that replicate those decks.
Some people really like the solo mode, I think its ok personally, but not the best.
drekson, also look into the Fenris expansion, it adds a campaign that can be played solo! And once you unlock a feature from the campaign, it can be added to single plays later as well. Or you can replay the campaign.
Total noob question, this or gloom haven jotl?
Totally different sorts of game. JOTL is team based for starters, Scythe is competitive.
@@3MBG thanks.. I’d like to try, but might be too complicated for my wife and kid.. maybe something different
@@Cons2911 For 3 of you as a family, JOTL easily.
👍🏻
Hi! I'm looking for a new game for my birthday list was wondering if scythe would be fun. My group is fans of games suspenseful games like One-night ultimate werewolf, Clank, Dead of winter, Root, exploding kittens, Pandemic, ticket to ride, and many others, do you think Scythe would work? If not what others would you recommend?
Not sure. I find it hard to recommend games to the individual. All i can say is after the video, did you think "that looks like fun" or not?
Scythe is a very good game, but its not for everyone. But if your group can handle Root, you should be good with it
@@3MBG Ok thank you so much!
@@Thatopman If you and your group enjoy strategy games like Civilization or Rise of Nations then I think you'd like it a lot.
So... Civilization but much less complex.
Cool.
3 can play at that game.
Avalon hills Civilization? Not really, and it takes 4 times longer to play
you need to graphics indicators such as words, circles when explaining instructions.
Nah, i'm good. This isn't a "how to play" or a rules instruction video. If you are trying to learn to play the game from it, you are using it wrong. It's just to give an overview of the game, nothing more.
Stuff flies past fast enough as it is without cluttering the screen with more words.
@@3MBG I agree! I love this style and you've found a niche itch that niether Rahdo nor Rodney's Watch it Played scratches.
Cheers G Sub. That was entirely the plan. I don't see a lot of point in imitating another channel. And I really recommend Watch it played, gaming rules and jon gets games for proper "how to play" vids.
I think of my vids as being almost like a trailer for a game. Enough to know if you want to look deeper, or if you will have no interest in the game
I’m so confused
About anything in particular, or just life in general?
@@3MBG This game has too many rules
Yeah, it's one of the higher complexity ones out there. Lots to keep track of in the game. Definitely not one i recommend to people who want something light and easy to learn (the box is also not light, weighs a ton)
@@3MBG this question of yours is gold 😂
Iron harvest !!!
Played a couple of games and it's just not working for our game group. The lack of interaction is killing the experience for us. Combat hardly occurs, only really because we were bored doing the other stuff. And there's no strategy as far as we can tell, you have to do everything on your board, and the order in which you do it is pretty much irrelevant. We also never had the feeling that we were in competition and racing to the finish ahead of the others. We just did our stuff by ourselves, and then suddenly it's over and no one had a clue who was ahead. Just count the points, and oh I guess you must've won. Very disappointing since the game looked so promising and the art is amazing.
Yeah, scythe is an odd one as it looks WAY more like a wargame than it actually is. I can completely see why your group feels that way about it
"europe"
The 300IQ strat is to set the video speed to 2! Tired of hour long reviews for games you barely know anything about? Try fourty reviews an hour!
I did 100 reviews in just over 3 minutes a while back. ;)
Scythe in 3 words...Very Dull Game.
Subcomandante73 I’m going to give this game more plays before I agree or disagree, but so far I’m just not feeling it. I think in general that worker placement games may not be for me.
@@noodlemans Not really worker placement but fair comment. It sure shares the mostly solo building elements with a bit of care bear combat.