2022Romain Caterdjian, Théo Rivière
- Videos
- 18
- Creators
- 14
2 - 5 players10 - 15 minLight weight

2025Romain Caterdjian
Mainly reviews. 12 Rivers is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 20 reviews, 3 how-to-play guides, 4 recorded sessions, 4 unboxings, and 2 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
You are the leader of a tribe whose people explore the fabled twelve rivers flowing from a mystical lake high in the mountains. Your goal? To find the magical coloured pearls that roll down the rivers in the current. Perhaps a helpful fairy may help you on your quest! Where the rivers converge there is a village where many people and animals live in harmony. There you can make life-long friends and deliver the pearls you have collected, to be used to heal, grow, and ensure another prosperous year for all. In each of 5 rounds of play, take turns paying camp cards (resources) to place your 3 tribe tokens into various slots along the rivers, to get the magic pearls you need. Pay more camp card resources to place higher up the rivers to pick pearls earlier. However, with clever placement and use of camp card powers, you can still get valuable pearls efficiently downstream. Use your Tribe tokens to block then collect magic pearls that flow down the 12 rivers. Collect pearls needed by villagers to ensure prosperity for the village at the bottom of the 12 Rivers. Once all tribe tokens are placed, release the magic pearls to roll down the rivers. Then collect a pearl at each tribe token you placed, and store it on your Alpaca for now. Remaining pearls roll downstream to be blocked and picked at other tribe tokens, or end in the lake. Along the way you will pick up helpful fairy tokens, and try to match Alpaca goals that reward you with points for collecting sets of particular pearl colours first. To score the pearls you collect, transfer them to villagers you recruit from the village, and strive to score their bonus goals too. After 5 rounds the player with the most points wins. -description from the publisher
12 Rivers has 33 videos from 27 creators: 20 reviews, 3 how-to-play guides, 4 playthroughs, 4 unboxings and 2 other videos. They date from 2025 to October 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "How to Play 12 RIVERS | Board Game Tutorial" by Play The Game HQ, which runs 16 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "12 Rivers Review: You Can Take That To The River Bank" by The Dice Tower. 18 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "12 Rivers Playthru" by Tantrum House, one of 4 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Ouch!, World Exchangers, Touch It! and Dive, also by Romain Caterdjian. It appears in convention videos from Gen Con 2025.
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2022Romain Caterdjian, Théo Rivière
2 - 5 players10 - 15 minLight weight
2022Romain Caterdjian, Smoox Chen
2 - 4 players20 - 40 minMedium weight
2022Romain Caterdjian
2 - 6 players5 - 10 minLight weight
2021Romain Caterdjian, Anthony Perone
1 - 4 players20 - 30 minLight weight
From BoardGameGeek:
You are the leader of a tribe whose people explore the fabled twelve rivers flowing from a mystical lake high in the mountains. Your goal? To find the magical coloured pearls that roll down the rivers in the current. Perhaps a helpful fairy may help you on your quest! Where the rivers converge there is a village where many people and animals live in harmony. There you can make life-long friends and deliver the pearls you have collected, to be used to heal, grow, and ensure another prosperous year for all. In each of 5 rounds of play, take turns paying camp cards (resources) to place your 3 tribe tokens into various slots along the rivers, to get the magic pearls you need. Pay more camp card resources to place higher up the rivers to pick pearls earlier. However, with clever placement and use of camp card powers, you can still get valuable pearls efficiently downstream. Use your Tribe tokens to block then collect magic pearls that flow down the 12 rivers. Collect pearls needed by villagers to ensure prosperity for the village at the bottom of the 12 Rivers. Once all tribe tokens are placed, release the magic pearls to roll down the rivers. Then collect a pearl at each tribe token you placed, and store it on your Alpaca for now. Remaining pearls roll downstream to be blocked and picked at other tribe tokens, or end in the lake. Along the way you will pick up helpful fairy tokens, and try to match Alpaca goals that reward you with points for collecting sets of particular pearl colours first. To score the pearls you collect, transfer them to villagers you recruit from the village, and strive to score their bonus goals too. After 5 rounds the player with the most points wins. -description from the publisher
Designer
Romain Caterdjian
Publisher
Good Games Publishing
Categories
Mechanics