Pendulum
2020Travis P Jones
- Videos
- 62
- Creators
- 50
Mainly reviews. Pendulum is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 33 reviews, 10 how-to-play guides, 6 recorded sessions, 6 unboxings, and 7 other videos.
1 - 5 players
60 - 90 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach
From BoardGameGeek
In Pendulum, each player is a powerful, unique noble vying to succeed the Timeless King as the true ruler of Dünya. Players command their workers, execute stratagems, and expand the provinces in their domain in real time to gain resources and move up the four victory tracks: power, prestige, popularity, and legendary achievement. Players must use actual time as a resource in managing their strategy to best their opponents, using time on different action types and balancing it with time spent planning and analyzing. The winner will be the player who manages and invests their time most effectively and who builds the best engine, not the player who acts the quickest. Pendulum is the highest-rated protoype in the history of the Stonemaier Games Design Day. -description from the publisher
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Which Pendulum video should I watch?
Pendulum has 62 videos from 50 creators: 33 reviews, 10 how-to-play guides, 6 playthroughs, 6 unboxings and 7 other videos. They date from 2020 to September 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "Pendulum - How To Play" by Watch It Played, which runs 33 min. For a quicker teach, "How To Solo: Pendulum - The Mill" by The Mill runs 12 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Pendulum Review - with Tom Vasel" by The Dice Tower. 32 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "All the Games with Steph - Pendulum - Stonemaier Games" by Steph Hodge, one of 6 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Septima, UBOOT: The Board Game, Slay the Spire: The Board Game or Maquis, which share several of its mechanics. It appears in convention videos from Gen Con 2020.
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About Pendulum
From BoardGameGeek:
In Pendulum, each player is a powerful, unique noble vying to succeed the Timeless King as the true ruler of Dünya. Players command their workers, execute stratagems, and expand the provinces in their domain in real time to gain resources and move up the four victory tracks: power, prestige, popularity, and legendary achievement. Players must use actual time as a resource in managing their strategy to best their opponents, using time on different action types and balancing it with time spent planning and analyzing. The winner will be the player who manages and invests their time most effectively and who builds the best engine, not the player who acts the quickest. Pendulum is the highest-rated protoype in the history of the Stonemaier Games Design Day. -description from the publisher
Designer
Travis P Jones
Artist
Robert Leask
Publisher
Stonemaier Games
Mechanics