2024Tomáš Holek
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1 - 4 players40 - 160 minHeavy weight

2025Tomáš Holek
Mainly playthroughs and reviews. Pondscape is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 8 reviews, 8 how-to-play guides, 11 recorded sessions, 4 unboxings, and 2 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
Pondscape is a strategic card game for 2-4 players, lasting around 30 minutes. In this game, players create their own vibrant pond by carefully placing cards featuring various frog species and pond environments while collecting different insect types. The core mechanisms involve grid building and card management, with pond construction as a spatial puzzle. In each round, players choose cards from a shared display and add one card to their pond, aiming to fulfill specific conditions set by different frog species to earn points, with larger groups of the same frog type yielding even greater rewards. A unique shared mechanism revolves around the "jumper frog", a central figure that hunts insects and other food. All players influence the jumper frog's actions and compete to gather insects that can provide bonus points during the final scoring. Careful planning and resourceful play will lead to the most balanced and flourishing pond! -description from the publisher
Pondscape has 33 videos from 30 creators: 8 reviews, 8 how-to-play guides, 11 playthroughs, 4 unboxings and 2 other videos. They date from 2025 to August 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "Pondscape - 2 Player How to Play" by Merry Married Meeples, which runs 11 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Pondscape Review: Constructing A Better Pond" by The Dice Tower. 8 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Kurzpartie FROSCHREICH // #brettspielvibes" by BordSue, one of 11 playthroughs.
If you like it, try SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Galileo Galilei, Aquaria and SETI: Space Agencies, also by Tomáš Holek.
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2024Tomáš Holek
1 - 4 players40 - 160 minHeavy weight
2024Tomáš Holek
1 - 4 players50 - 100 minHeavy weight
2025Tomáš Holek
1 - 4 players40 - 160 minHeavy weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Pondscape is a strategic card game for 2-4 players, lasting around 30 minutes. In this game, players create their own vibrant pond by carefully placing cards featuring various frog species and pond environments while collecting different insect types. The core mechanisms involve grid building and card management, with pond construction as a spatial puzzle. In each round, players choose cards from a shared display and add one card to their pond, aiming to fulfill specific conditions set by different frog species to earn points, with larger groups of the same frog type yielding even greater rewards. A unique shared mechanism revolves around the "jumper frog", a central figure that hunts insects and other food. All players influence the jumper frog's actions and compete to gather insects that can provide bonus points during the final scoring. Careful planning and resourceful play will lead to the most balanced and flourishing pond! -description from the publisher
Designer
Tomáš Holek
Artist
Jiří Kůs
Publisher
Pink Troubadour
Mechanics