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Life in Reterra

Life in Reterra

2024·Ken Gruhl, Eric M. Lang

Videos
11
Creators
11

Mainly reviews. Life in Reterra is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 6 reviews, 1 how-to-play guides, 2 recorded sessions, 1 unboxings, and 1 other video.

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

From BoardGameGeek

Not long from now, the world as we know it is an overgrown memory - and though the world has changed, we've changed with it, using anything we can find to build a new way of living. Life in Reterra is a (re)building game, and it's up to each player to build a community of their own. To set up, choose one of three ready-to-play themed building sets, or put together a set of your own. Each set consists of five building cards, with associated building tiles for each card. Each player starts with one square land tile in play. Each land tile is divided into a 2x2 grid, with one of five types of terrain in each grid space; a space might also hold a gear icon or one of four types of relics. Players also have three land tiles in hand, and five land tiles are displayed face up. On a turn, choose a land tile from your hand or the display, then add it to your community, which can be at most four tiles on each side. When the tile has a gear, you can either place an inhabitant from the reserve on this gear or place a building tile in your community...but each part of the building must be supported by a gear and all of these gears must be on the same type of terrain. After you have a building in play, you gain the power of the building card and can use it once on each of your subsequent turns. Maybe you can place relic tokens for additional points, place additional inhabitants, junk an opponent's relics, or score for building large sections of a terrain or having more of a building than anyone else. Once everyone has sixteen tiles in their community, players score for what they've built, earning points for blocks of terrain of at least seven spaces, surrounded energy sources (which are a special type of tile), inhabitants, relics, and buildings.

Life in Reterra

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Learn to play

Life in Reterra Teach & Play18:42

Life in Reterra Teach & Play

Review

Life In Reterra Review - A Polyomino Tile Laying Wasteland14:02

Life In Reterra Review - A Polyomino Tile Laying Wasteland

BoardGameCo

BoardGameCo

Watch it played

Life in Reterra - MvM Live Play50:47

Life in Reterra - MvM Live Play

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Man vs Meeple

Which Life in Reterra video should I watch?

Life in Reterra has 11 videos from 11 creators: 6 reviews, 1 how-to-play guide, 2 playthroughs, 1 unboxing and 1 other video. They date from 2024 to February 2025.

To learn the rules, start with "Life in Reterra Teach & Play", which runs 19 min.

For an opinion before you buy, start with "Life In Reterra Review - A Polyomino Tile Laying Wasteland" by BoardGameCo. 6 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Life in Reterra - MvM Live Play" by Man vs Meeple, one of 2 playthroughs.

If you like it, try Dice Masters, Marvel United, Cthulhu: Death May Die and Marvel United: X-Men, also by Eric M. Lang. It appears in convention videos from UK Games Expo 2024.

All videos

Life in Reterra Teach & PlayHow to play18:42

Life in Reterra Teach & Play

Life in Reterra - Board Game ReviewReview16:07

Life in Reterra - Board Game Review

Allies or Enemies

Allies or Enemies

LIFE IN RETERRA - FAMILY STRATEGY BOARD GAME || LIVE PLAYPlaythrough1:15:32

LIFE IN RETERRA - FAMILY STRATEGY BOARD GAME || LIVE PLAY

Monkeys With Fire

Monkeys With Fire

How to Play & What's to Love || Life in ReterraReview10:16

How to Play & What's to Love || Life in Reterra

BoardGameBarrister

BoardGameBarrister

UKGE 2024: Life in Reterra Preview With Eric Lang - Hasbro Knock it out of the Park!Interview6:17

UKGE 2024: Life in Reterra Preview With Eric Lang - Hasbro Knock it out of the Park!

Board Stupid

Board Stupid

Life in Reterra Review: On Reterra FirmaReview30:06

Life in Reterra Review: On Reterra Firma

The Dice Tower

The Dice Tower

The Boardgame Mechanics Review Life in ReterraReview8:50

The Boardgame Mechanics Review Life in Reterra

The Boardgame Mechanics

The Boardgame Mechanics

Life in Reterra - MvM Live PlayPlaythrough50:47

Life in Reterra - MvM Live Play

Man vs Meeple

Man vs Meeple

Best Board Games Coming to Retail in April, 2024Review48:36

Best Board Games Coming to Retail in April, 2024

Grant Lyon

Grant Lyon

Life in Reterra UnboxingUnboxing12:17

Life in Reterra Unboxing

Richard Shay

Richard Shay

Life In Reterra Review - A Polyomino Tile Laying WastelandReview14:02

Life In Reterra Review - A Polyomino Tile Laying Wasteland

BoardGameCo

BoardGameCo

Life in Reterra Teach & Play18:42

Life in Reterra Teach & Play

Life In Reterra Review - A Polyomino Tile Laying Wasteland14:02

Life In Reterra Review - A Polyomino Tile Laying Wasteland

BoardGameCo

BoardGameCo

Life in Reterra Review: On Reterra Firma30:06

Life in Reterra Review: On Reterra Firma

The Dice Tower

The Dice Tower

Best Board Games Coming to Retail in April, 202448:36

Best Board Games Coming to Retail in April, 2024

Grant Lyon

Grant Lyon

Life in Reterra - Board Game Review16:07

Life in Reterra - Board Game Review

Allies or Enemies

Allies or Enemies

The Boardgame Mechanics Review Life in Reterra8:50

The Boardgame Mechanics Review Life in Reterra

The Boardgame Mechanics

The Boardgame Mechanics

How to Play & What's to Love || Life in Reterra10:16

How to Play & What's to Love || Life in Reterra

BoardGameBarrister

BoardGameBarrister

Life in Reterra - MvM Live Play50:47

Life in Reterra - MvM Live Play

Man vs Meeple

Man vs Meeple

LIFE IN RETERRA - FAMILY STRATEGY BOARD GAME || LIVE PLAY1:15:32

LIFE IN RETERRA - FAMILY STRATEGY BOARD GAME || LIVE PLAY

Monkeys With Fire

Monkeys With Fire

Life in Reterra Unboxing12:17

Life in Reterra Unboxing

Richard Shay

Richard Shay

UKGE 2024: Life in Reterra Preview With Eric Lang - Hasbro Knock it out of the Park!6:17

UKGE 2024: Life in Reterra Preview With Eric Lang - Hasbro Knock it out of the Park!

Board Stupid

Board Stupid

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About Life in Reterra

From BoardGameGeek:

Not long from now, the world as we know it is an overgrown memory - and though the world has changed, we've changed with it, using anything we can find to build a new way of living. Life in Reterra is a (re)building game, and it's up to each player to build a community of their own. To set up, choose one of three ready-to-play themed building sets, or put together a set of your own. Each set consists of five building cards, with associated building tiles for each card. Each player starts with one square land tile in play. Each land tile is divided into a 2x2 grid, with one of five types of terrain in each grid space; a space might also hold a gear icon or one of four types of relics. Players also have three land tiles in hand, and five land tiles are displayed face up. On a turn, choose a land tile from your hand or the display, then add it to your community, which can be at most four tiles on each side. When the tile has a gear, you can either place an inhabitant from the reserve on this gear or place a building tile in your community...but each part of the building must be supported by a gear and all of these gears must be on the same type of terrain. After you have a building in play, you gain the power of the building card and can use it once on each of your subsequent turns. Maybe you can place relic tokens for additional points, place additional inhabitants, junk an opponent's relics, or score for building large sections of a terrain or having more of a building than anyone else. Once everyone has sixteen tiles in their community, players score for what they've built, earning points for blocks of terrain of at least seven spaces, surrounded energy sources (which are a special type of tile), inhabitants, relics, and buildings.

Designers

Ken Gruhl, Eric M. Lang

Artist

Hugo Cuellar

Publisher

Hasbro

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