boardgamevideo
  • Trending
  • Videos
  • Games
  • Channels
  • Lists
  • Shorts

Explore

  • Home
  • Trending
  • Channels
  • Videos
  • Games
  • Lists
  • Shorts
  • Conventions
  • Year in Review

Browse by type

  • Reviews
  • How to play
  • Playthroughs
  • Unboxing
  • Top 100 lists
  • Featured videos
  • Trending this week
  • Rising games
  • Games with fresh review perspectives

Information

  • About
  • Contact
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy

© 2022–2026 BoardGameVideo.com

Powered by BGG
  • Videos
  • Trending
  • Shorts
  • Channels
  • Games
  • Lists
Silk

Silk

2018·Luis Ranedo

2 - 4 players
45 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting

From BoardGameGeek

The Imomushi silkworms can live only in the cold peaks of the Akaishi Mountains, and they produce the most delicate and expensive silk in the world. Very few people can withstand the hardships of the lonesome life a shepherd of giant silkworms leads. It is a solitary existence that requires great dedication and strength of character to bear the pressures that stem from competing with the few other shepherds who fight over the scarce but desirable feeding grounds, while keeping the fearsome ookamy at bay. Silk is a gateway game into area control and worker placement systems. Players have to move their silkworms to the optimal spaces so they can feed on the best grass available, while pushing the other players' pieces into less desirable feeding grounds. In this game, players roll dice in order to determine which actions they are allowed to perform during their turn. There are six types of actions available: breeding more silkworms, moving the shepherd or their mastiff, building fences or farms, moving the ookami monster around the board, and - most importantly - getting your silkworms to feed. When silkworms feed, they generate a number of silk points, depending on the type of terrain they are standing on at that moment. These points can be used to modify the outcome of a dice roll, all while keeping in mind that the player with the most silk points at the end of the game wins! -description from publisher

Silk

Watch first

Learn to play

How To Play Silk31:53

How To Play Silk

Devir Games

Devir Games

Review

SILK — Chat with Glenn Flaherty of Boardgames & Bourbon2:58

SILK — Chat with Glenn Flaherty of Boardgames & Bourbon

Board Game Gumbo (Board Game Gumbo)

Board Game Gumbo (Board Game Gumbo)

Which Silk video should I watch?

Silk has 2 videos from 2 creators: 1 review and 1 how-to-play guide. They date from 2022 to May 2025.

To learn the rules, start with "How To Play Silk" by Devir Games, which runs 32 min.

For an opinion before you buy, start with "SILK — Chat with Glenn Flaherty of Boardgames & Bourbon" by Board Game Gumbo (Board Game Gumbo).

If you like it, try City of Gears, Argent: The Consortium, Brew or Fate of the Elder Gods, which share several of its mechanics.

All videos

How To Play SilkHow to play31:53

How To Play Silk

Devir Games

Devir Games

SILK — Chat with Glenn Flaherty of Boardgames & BourbonReview2:58

SILK — Chat with Glenn Flaherty of Boardgames & Bourbon

Board Game Gumbo (Board Game Gumbo)

Board Game Gumbo (Board Game Gumbo)

Creators who cover this

All channels
Board Game Gumbo (Board Game Gumbo)
Board Game Gumbo (Board Game Gumbo)
1 video of this game
Devir Games
Devir Games
1 video of this game

Games like this

All games

City of Gears

2012·Chris Leder, Daryl Andrews

Videos
40
Creators
28
Some reviews

2 - 4 players·45 - 60 min·Medium weight

Argent: The Consortium

2015·Trey Chambers

Videos
44
Creators
36
Mainly reviews

2 - 5 players·60 - 150 min·Heavy weight

Brew

2021·Stevo Torres

Videos
59
Creators
51
Mainly reviews

2 - 4 players·45 - 90 min·Medium weight

Fate of the Elder Gods

2017·Christopher Kirkman, Richard Launius, Darrell Louder

Videos
51
Creators
30
Mostly reviews and playthroughs

1 - 4 players·30 - 90 min·Medium weight

About Silk

From BoardGameGeek:

The Imomushi silkworms can live only in the cold peaks of the Akaishi Mountains, and they produce the most delicate and expensive silk in the world. Very few people can withstand the hardships of the lonesome life a shepherd of giant silkworms leads. It is a solitary existence that requires great dedication and strength of character to bear the pressures that stem from competing with the few other shepherds who fight over the scarce but desirable feeding grounds, while keeping the fearsome ookamy at bay. Silk is a gateway game into area control and worker placement systems. Players have to move their silkworms to the optimal spaces so they can feed on the best grass available, while pushing the other players' pieces into less desirable feeding grounds. In this game, players roll dice in order to determine which actions they are allowed to perform during their turn. There are six types of actions available: breeding more silkworms, moving the shepherd or their mastiff, building fences or farms, moving the ookami monster around the board, and - most importantly - getting your silkworms to feed. When silkworms feed, they generate a number of silk points, depending on the type of terrain they are standing on at that moment. These points can be used to modify the outcome of a dice roll, all while keeping in mind that the player with the most silk points at the end of the game wins! -description from publisher

Designer

Luis Ranedo

Artist

Roc Espinet

Publisher

Devir

Categories

AnimalsFarming

Mechanics

Area Majority / InfluenceDice RollingTake ThatWorker Placement
View on BoardGameGeek ›
Home
Games
Silk
cached: 255037