Watch “BREW - A Brilliant or Brutal Dice Game? | Board Game Review,” a board game review for Brew from Board Game Sanctuary on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by Board Game Sanctuary on YouTube:
Brew is a dice placement area control board game where players take on the role of forest mystics as they forage for resources from the enchanted forest with the aim of brewing potions and taming the land!
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As a mystic players will be placing forage dice on forest cards from round to round by matching certain symbols that have been rolled. Players will then gather ingredients listed on the forest spaces. Players can also palce their rolled dice on the main village board which provides players with other effects and actions such as previewing and reserving potions.
Players are ultimately using their ingredients to buy potions from the shop and brew them. Potions provides players with one time effects that helps to affect and manipulate the presence of different players dice on the forest cards. The player who has the most forage dice of their colour on a forest card gets to claim it at the end of the round earning them vital end game victory points.
Training an animal can also help players give them extra specific dice actions attuned to the playstyle they wish to express.
Overall Brew is a really fun dice game with a a unique theme that is surely a great fit for the family game night!
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Mainly reviews. Brew is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 29 reviews, 9 how-to-play guides, 8 recorded sessions, 7 unboxings, and 6 other videos.
2 - 4 players
45 - 90 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting
About Brew, from BoardGameGeek:
Bring balance back to the forest!
Time is broken and shattered. The seasons all exist at once, and day and night have no real cycle - they rotate at the whim of the forest. This enchanted land has been driven into chaos and it's up to you, the cunning mystics of the forest, to tame extraordinary woodland creatures and use your magic to bring back balance.
In Brew, players must choose how to use element dice, either to take back control of as many seasons as possible in an area-control game or to procure goods at the local village in a worker-placement game. Recruiting woodland creatures and brewing potions can help offset chance die-rolls or create an engine to help you tame the lands.