2021Alexis Allard, Benoit Turpin
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- Creators
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1 - 6 players25 - 30 minMedium weight

2018Alexis Allard
Mostly reviews and unboxings. Small Islands is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 20 reviews, 9 how-to-play guides, 5 recorded sessions, 11 unboxings, and 2 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
Small Islands is a tile-placement game in which you are daring explorers discovering a magnificent archipelago. Its islands are brimming with natural resources but also temples from an ancient and mysterious civilization. Brave adventurers, bring back to your clan wealth & prestige! A game is played in maximum 4 Rounds. At the beginning of each Round, each player secretly picks an Objective Card out of three cards. And in turn, players draw and place a Landscape Tile out of the 5 available (2 in hand, and 3 on the table). At a certain point, another option becomes available: placing a Ship Tile. When this tile is placed, in turn, all players place Houses on the islands and earn Prestige Points according to their Objective. Then players start a new Round. When the game ends, players receive additional points for their Ship Tiles. In Advanced Mode, Objectives are split in 2 types of cards which allows you to create your own objectives amongst many combinations. There is also a Solo Mode, innovative for its mechanics as well as for the very concept of a solo mode in a tile-placement game. We gave it an AI with a personality and different behaviors. Small Islands offers you even more surprises, hidden at its heart.
Small Islands has 47 videos from 40 creators: 20 reviews, 9 how-to-play guides, 5 playthroughs, 11 unboxings and 2 other videos. They date from 2018 to August 2025.
To learn the rules, start with "The Video Rule of Small Islands" by Ludema, which runs 7 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Small Islands Review - with Zee Garcia" by The Dice Tower. 19 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Let's Learn & Play: Small Islands" by TheOneTAR, one of 5 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Welcome to the Moon, Mythicals, Welcome To...: Collector's Edition and Welcome To...: Solo Mode, also by Alexis Allard.
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2021Alexis Allard, Benoit Turpin
1 - 6 players25 - 30 minMedium weight
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2023Alexis Allard, Benoit Turpin
1 - 6 players25 minMedium weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Small Islands is a tile-placement game in which you are daring explorers discovering a magnificent archipelago. Its islands are brimming with natural resources but also temples from an ancient and mysterious civilization. Brave adventurers, bring back to your clan wealth & prestige! A game is played in maximum 4 Rounds. At the beginning of each Round, each player secretly picks an Objective Card out of three cards. And in turn, players draw and place a Landscape Tile out of the 5 available (2 in hand, and 3 on the table). At a certain point, another option becomes available: placing a Ship Tile. When this tile is placed, in turn, all players place Houses on the islands and earn Prestige Points according to their Objective. Then players start a new Round. When the game ends, players receive additional points for their Ship Tiles. In Advanced Mode, Objectives are split in 2 types of cards which allows you to create your own objectives amongst many combinations. There is also a Solo Mode, innovative for its mechanics as well as for the very concept of a solo mode in a tile-placement game. We gave it an AI with a personality and different behaviors. Small Islands offers you even more surprises, hidden at its heart.
Designer
Alexis Allard
Artist
Aurélie Guarino
Publisher
MushrooM Games (II)
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