2026Jeremy Rozenhart
Mainly reviews. Tatsumi is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 9 reviews, 4 how-to-play guides, 1 recorded sessions, 3 unboxings, and 1 other video.
From BoardGameGeek
In Tatsumi, the island celebrates you as their guardian dragon, their Tatsu. Your calling is to restore the elements on your island and renew good fortune for your people. Drafting resources, collecting sets, and scoring bonuses in Tatsumi relies on the position of your dragon avatar on the seaboard, creating a more immersive and believable abstract strategy experience. The seaboard randomizes and stages the entire game's resources into a 3-dimensional central board so you can strategically look ahead planning when to collect and when to score. The tile-placement in Tatsumi has a puzzly yet satisfying feel through a clever combination of engine-building, instant scoring, and elemental inspired end game tile-placement bonuses for you to maximize. Each player may play with a symmetric setup for learning or competition, or a fully asymmetric island and dragon combination for tons of replayability. Fans of games like Azul, Harmonies, and Splendor will appreciate the intuitive gameplay, elevated componentry, and additional features specifically developed to extend beyond gateway games in this genre for gamers that enjoy solo-play, symmetric and asymmetric combinations, and a multigame feel packed into a single box. -description from the publisher
Tatsumi has 18 videos from 13 creators: 9 reviews, 4 how-to-play guides, 1 playthrough, 3 unboxings and 1 other video. They date from 2024 to August 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "All the Games with Steph: Tatsumi - Teach" by Steph Hodge, which runs 22 min. For a quicker teach, "How to Play Tatsumi | Board Game Rules & Tutorial" by Adams Apple Games runs 10 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Tatsumi - 5 Reasons to Play this Dragon filled Board Game from Adam's Apple Games" by BoxedMeeples. 9 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "The Weather is Such A Drag(on) - Tatsumi Solo Play" by Merry Married Meeples.
If you like it, try One Card Wonders, also by Jeremy Rozenhart, or Explorers of the North Sea, Explorers and Scrabble, which share several of its mechanics. It appears in convention videos from Spiel Essen 2025 and Spiel Essen 2024.
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2026Nick Ackroyd, Sébastien Bernier-Wong, Jonathan Carnehl, Christopher M. Carter, Julián Galizio, Maisy Hatchard, Dustin Hendrickson, Jackson Lin, Noe Escobar @Noescobar, Darren Reckner, Jeremy Rozenhart, Rob Sparks, Mark Tuck, Julián Tunni
1 - 11 players2 - 30 min
2016Shem Phillips
1 - 4 players45 - 60 minMedium weight
1948Alfred Mosher Butts
2 - 4 players90 minMedium weight
From BoardGameGeek:
In Tatsumi, the island celebrates you as their guardian dragon, their Tatsu. Your calling is to restore the elements on your island and renew good fortune for your people. Drafting resources, collecting sets, and scoring bonuses in Tatsumi relies on the position of your dragon avatar on the seaboard, creating a more immersive and believable abstract strategy experience. The seaboard randomizes and stages the entire game's resources into a 3-dimensional central board so you can strategically look ahead planning when to collect and when to score. The tile-placement in Tatsumi has a puzzly yet satisfying feel through a clever combination of engine-building, instant scoring, and elemental inspired end game tile-placement bonuses for you to maximize. Each player may play with a symmetric setup for learning or competition, or a fully asymmetric island and dragon combination for tons of replayability. Fans of games like Azul, Harmonies, and Splendor will appreciate the intuitive gameplay, elevated componentry, and additional features specifically developed to extend beyond gateway games in this genre for gamers that enjoy solo-play, symmetric and asymmetric combinations, and a multigame feel packed into a single box. -description from the publisher
Designer
Jeremy Rozenhart
Artist
Shirley Gong
Publisher
Adam's Apple Games, LLC
Categories
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