Hey friends! Enjoy this solo playthrough of River Valley Jewelcraft by Allplay! In River Valley Jewelcraft you roll dice to gather gems. Use your unique movement rules and player powers to explore the mine. Carefully lay tiles to improve your potential spoils. Finally, use your gems to craft exquisite jewelry to build a powerful scoring engine! Enjoy the playthrough friends!
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I hope you enjoy this updated list of my Top 10 2 Player Games. Let me know what you think in the comments below and if there are any games I missed!
Alternate Video Titles:
Best Games for 2 Players
Best 2 Player Games
Best Games for Couples or Just 2 People Who Like Playing Games Together Just the Two Of Them
We completed the campaign twice for this Star Wars big box, and are here to review all of that experience! Imperial Assault is a dungeon crawler with this sci-fi theme, where you still draw line of sight and chuck die, just with a lot of nice mechanical tweaks from the Descent 2nd edition system, like movement capabilities! On your turn, either rebel or empire player will go, and perform 2 actions with their miniatures. There’s even a skirmish mode to draft your armies to fight over objectives, if you don’t care about the ongoing campaign, or finished it! With a ton of modular board to to make the maps, and even Jedi to play, this box evokes a lot of strong story moments. Is this fight between the galactic empire and rebel alliance still worth it over a decade after release?
Other games mentioned: HeroQuest, Gloomhaven, Zombicide, Arkham Horror LCG, Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era, Arcadia Quest, Frosthaven, Jaws of the Lion, Project Elite, Mansions of Madness, Buttons and Bugs, Dungeons and Dragons
This is my tutorial and overview of the solo-only, cloth-folding board game Pasteles, from designer Scott Almes and publisher Salt & Pepper Games, who has provided a preview copy for this playthrough.
In Gazebo, players take turns placing dominos on the shared garden map to establish nooks — that is, two or more contiguous terrain spaces of the same type: flower, foliage, or water. When a player creates a nook, they place one of their gazebos on top of it, and by connecting their nook to a patio, they can claim the patio and place a gazebo on it.
But not all is peaceful in this game of garden landscaping. Larger nooks can absorb smaller nooks, and patios can be stolen by cunning rivals. The first player to place all of their gazebos on the board wins!
🎲 Cooperative games are everywhere… but this one feels different.
In this video, we take a look at Eternal Decks — a unique co-op card game built around limited communication, deck-building, and puzzle-like gameplay.
It’s clever, tense, and sometimes brutal… but does it actually work?
💬 Let us know — is this your kind of co-op game?
In this video:
0:00 Intro
0:31 Overview
1:40 3 Best things
5:24 Not For You?
8:57 For who?
9:21 Final rating
10:30 Alternative
11:18 Outro
Board Game Hangover is your go-to channel for everything board games! From the best board game reviews, playthroughs, and top 10 lists to board game upgrades, house rules, and gameplay tips — we help you discover the best board games, improve your board gaming experience, and have a good laugh along the way. Whether you're into strategy board games, party games, solo board gaming, or family board games, you're in the right place.
Use the Chapter Markers to skip around in the Playthrough!
00:00 Start Screen
07:13 Opening Chatting
27:16 Brief Rules Overview
46:26 Game Play Starts!
2:34:11 Wrap Up
This week on SU&SD, we’re taking a look at Dark Pact - a deckbuilding game that wants you to tear it apart as fast as possible. Is that good? Do we LIKE IT? WHO KNOWS!? Tom puts his thoughts into this little morsel of video, which does contain more ritual sacrifice than usual.
A deceptively simple flicking game where precision, control, and a steady hand make all the difference. Every shot counts—can you pull off the perfect play?
What does the "spirit of the game" mean to each of us? Is it game dependent? Is it something that is dictated by the designer of the game or the players playing it at the table? Where does "metagaming" fit in? All of this and more on this week's episode!
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Join me for a complete solo board game teach and playthrough of the new expansion for Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon -- Shackleton Base: Below. Within. Above. I play with all three new corporations, the new agency, and new bonus tiles.
A review copy of the expansion was provided by Pandasaurus Games.
With our heavy Twilight Imperium experience, we came up with a variant of our own to fix the agenda phase! This Landsraad variant takes into account the ministers and a new law called “Lord of Rex” to deepen the political intrigue before and during each agenda phase. We also tested the galactic module Rapid Mobilization, which is from Thunder’s Edge, to see if that can actually make the game shorter. This doesn't change the asymmetry of the games at all, and in fact might help area control ideas.
🎲 Board game collections are always evolving…
In this video, we’re saying goodbye to 6 games from our collection — and replacing them with 6 new ones.
Some were easy to let go… others not so much. But every game we removed made room for something new.
💬 Which would YOU keep… and which would you replace?
In this video:
0:00 Intro
0:17 This War Of Mine
1:48 Purple Haze
2:54 World Order
3:48 Skull King
4:18 Unconscious Mind
5:09 Nexus Ops
6:15 Rivals
7:58 Queen's Dilemma
9:18 Monster Hunter World
11:04 The Crew
11:20 The Gang
12:06 Lands Of Evershade
13:52 Outro
Board Game Hangover is your go-to channel for everything board games! From the best board game reviews, playthroughs, and top 10 lists to board game upgrades, house rules, and gameplay tips — we help you discover the best board games, improve your board gaming experience, and have a good laugh along the way. Whether you're into strategy board games, party games, solo board gaming, or family board games, you're in the right place.
A huge thank you to James Wood from @ThatBoardGameShow for editing our videos!
Timestamps:
Intro: 00:00
Bluffit: 00:29
Space Lab: 01:38
FOMO: 03:08
Bouquet: 04:06
San Juan: 04:46
Point of view: 07:04
Take Time: 08:32
Emberheart: 10:36
Natera: 12:34
March of the Ants: 14:18
Grand Central Skyport: 15:43
Wrap up: 17:20
Is Nippon: Zaibatsu the perfect euro game? In this review, I break down why this industrial strategy game might be one of the most satisfying combinations of engine building, player interaction, and tough decision-making available today.
From managing your workforce and timing consolidation, to building factories, producing goods, and competing for influence across regions, Nippon: Zaibatsu delivers constant meaningful choices—and punishes mistakes in the best way possible.
If you love medium-heavy euro games with tight economies, clever systems, and real interaction, this might be exactly what you’re looking for.
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What You’ll Learn in This Review:
* How the worker system and consolidation timing drive the entire game
* Why the engine building feels so rewarding
* How player interaction sets it apart from other euros
* The biggest strengths and potential downsides
* Whether it’s worth adding to your collection
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Who This Game Is For:
* Fans of engine-building euro games
* Players who enjoy strategic depth and planning
* Groups that want interaction without chaos
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If you enjoy board game reviews that focus on the skills you build through play, consider subscribing!
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00:00 Intro
00:56 Play Count
02:11 Complexity & How It Plays
06:50 Skills
08:25 Final Thoughts
Tower defence isn’t just for video games anymore. In this video, we’re counting down the Top 10 Tower Defence Board Games — games where waves of enemies, clever positioning, brutal choices, and last-stand panic all collide on the tabletop.
From fantasy monsters and sci-fi invasions to castles, traps, turrets, barricades, and desperate “please don’t break through the line” moments, these are the board games that best capture that classic tower defence feeling. Expect tactical decisions, escalating pressure, co-op chaos, and probably at least one game where everything goes horribly wrong by round three.
Whether you love cooperative board games, solo board games, campaign games, castle defence games, or just watching your carefully built defences get smashed to bits, this list has something for you.
Are these the best tower defence board games ever made? Or have I missed your favourite? Let me know in the comments.
Anmelden
