2024Gavan Brown, Sébastien Pauchon, Adam Wyse
- Videos
- 73
- Creators
- 58
2 - 4 players30 - 90 minMedium weight

2018Sébastien Pauchon, Ismaël Perrin
Mostly reviews and how-to-play. The River is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 24 reviews, 14 how-to-play guides, 3 recorded sessions, 3 unboxings, and 4 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
In The River, you and the other mayoral players each struggle to create the best pioneer settlement by developing land along a river bed in your town, collecting resources from the area, and constructing buildings. As you explore and build up the untouched frontier, your workers will settle down along the way, meaning that your other workers will shoulder more of the burden to do what you want to do, which includes making nicely organized landscapes to please the aestheticians in town. Every decision counts in this fast and streamlined tile-placement game, and in the end the player with the most impressive settlement will win!
The River has 48 videos from 41 creators: 24 reviews, 14 how-to-play guides, 3 playthroughs, 3 unboxings and 4 other videos. They date from 2018 to May 2022.
To learn the rules, start with "Game in a Nutshell - The River (how to play)" by Nithrania - Game in a Nutshell, which runs 14 min. For a quicker teach, "Conociendo The River" by Zacatrus runs 7 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Miami Dice - The River" by The Dice Tower. 20 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Steve & Tiffany Learn & Play: The River" by TheOneTAR, one of 3 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Skyrise, Jaipur, Jamaica and Sobek: 2 Players, also by Sébastien Pauchon. It appears in convention videos from Gen Con 2018 and Spiel Essen 2018.
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2024Gavan Brown, Sébastien Pauchon, Adam Wyse
2 - 4 players30 - 90 minMedium weight
2009Sébastien Pauchon
2 players30 minLight weight
2007Malcolm Braff, Bruno Cathala, Sébastien Pauchon
2 - 6 players30 - 60 minLight weight
2021Bruno Cathala, Sébastien Pauchon
2 players20 minLight weight
From BoardGameGeek:
In The River, you and the other mayoral players each struggle to create the best pioneer settlement by developing land along a river bed in your town, collecting resources from the area, and constructing buildings. As you explore and build up the untouched frontier, your workers will settle down along the way, meaning that your other workers will shoulder more of the burden to do what you want to do, which includes making nicely organized landscapes to please the aestheticians in town. Every decision counts in this fast and streamlined tile-placement game, and in the end the player with the most impressive settlement will win!
Designers
Sébastien Pauchon, Ismaël Perrin
Artist
Andrew Bosley
Publisher
Days of Wonder
Categories
Mechanics