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Mar 23, 2024·Review·14:02·14·Watch on YouTube

Life In Reterra Review - A Polyomino Tile Laying Wasteland

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Watch “Life In Reterra Review - A Polyomino Tile Laying Wasteland,” a board game review for Life in Reterra from BoardGameCo on BoardGameVideo.

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BoardGameCo Ko-Fi (Exclusive Content) - https://ko-fi.com/boardgameco BoardGameCo Patreon (Exclusive Content) - https://www.patreon.com/boardgameco Instagram - https://bit.ly/39GvjNH -------------------------------------------- Channels I Recommend (Not a comprehensive list by any means) Professor Meg - http://bit.ly/3XKR1ol Devon Talks Tabletop - https://bit.ly/36HAr3l The Board Game Garden - https://bit.ly/495mdEO Room & Board - https://bit.ly/48ZeurF Thinker Themer - https://bit.ly/495mis6 -------------------------------------------- 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. BGG Link - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/415513/life-reterra TimeStamps: 0:00:00 - Overview 0:06:10 - Ease of Play 0:06:45 - What I Like 0:09:10 - What I Don’t Like 0:11:05 - What I Can See Others Not Liking 0:12:00 - Final Thoughts 0:13:20 - Recommendations 5.0 - My absolutely favorite games. You can pry them out of my cold dead hands. 4.5 - Love this game! At the same time missing something that would make it a 5. Could be hard to table, lacking variability, a little light, etc. 4.0 - Really great game, almost always keeping, although has meaningful complaints as to what takes away from the experience. 3.5 - Really enjoyed, don't love it, may lose out to better games but the idea of never playing again is a bit sad. 3.0 - A good game, likely not suggesting we play it and if I never played it again wouldn't lose any sleep. 2.5 - A game I'd play again but with reluctance, and will never suggest it myself 2.0 - A game I don't want to play again 1.5 - A game I can't find any reason to recommend 1.0 - A game that is just bad. My Game Table (Non Referral) https://bit.ly/3aYUdpp Upgrade Your Game At Top Shelf Gamer (Referral Link) https://bit.ly/3siD0PL For media inquiries, please email alex@boardgameco.com For Gamefound inquiries, please email me at a.radcliffe@gamefound.com

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Life in Reterra

Life in Reterra

2024·Ken Gruhl, Eric M. Lang

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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

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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