Watch “Botanik | What's in the Box?,” a board game unboxing for Botanik from Board Game Beans on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by Board Game Beans on YouTube:
Joana and Christian open up Botanik, a 2-player abstract tile-placement game with a unique art style. 🌱
// // Game Details
Game Name: Botanik
Release Date: 2021
Number of Players: 2
Designers: Frank Crittin, Grégoire Largey, Sébastien Pauchon
Artist: Franck Dion
Publisher: Space Cowboys
// // Sources
Publisher Link: https://www.spacecowboys.fr/botanik-english
BoardGameGeek Link: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/271529/botanik
Board Game Arena Link: https://en.boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=botanik
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// // Timestamps
00:00 - Start
00:14 - What’s in the Box?
05:13 - Play Time
06:18 - Our Initial Thoughts
15:57 - Extra: Bloopies
// // Credits
Sound Effects:
- Various pieces, CC0 from https://freesound.org, and licensed from Artlist.
Music:
- Forest Sun by Sero, Licensed from Artlist
- Dreaming of Peace by Okaya, Licensed from Artlist
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Mainly reviews. Botanik is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 15 reviews, 7 how-to-play guides, 5 recorded sessions, 5 unboxings, and 1 other video.
2 players
30 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes
About Botanik, from BoardGameGeek:
In the hushed intimacy of her laboratory, the eminent researcher Beatrix Bury has just discovered a technology allowing to mechanically generate all kinds of edibles. Subtropical plants, stellar potatoes, Orion mandarins, this new technology opens a way to save the people of Forharms, prisoners of a world made of rust and toxic vapors. It's in the urgency of a threatened world that the scientist puts two of her best teams in charge of developing her plan... that can seem quite demanding at times. Each team is engrossed in its mission and Beatrix's laboratory becomes the battlefield of fierce competition to produce the best performing machine. You are promoted to the head of one of these two teams, and must prove yourself worthy of the head researchers' trust. Rise up to the challenge!
-description from the rulebook
Develop the most effective network of mecha-botanics, the combination of plants and science! Botanik offers fluid mechanics (one action per turn), in addition to an ingenious exchange system, associated with tiles of different groups/colours.
A)draft machine parts (tiles)and add them to your workshop
or
B)change the main workshop to add tiles from your workshop to your machine.
Gain points for 1)groups of 3 or more tiles of the same color and 2)for flowers on your tiles