Watch “Mailbag October 22, 2025,” a board game unboxing for Tend from ThisBoardGameLife on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by ThisBoardGameLife on YouTube:
In this episode Mark introduces an exciting unboxing of a crowdfunding project, the game 'Tend' from IV Studios. He shares his anticipation and initial impressions of the game's heavy box and its contents, which include a variety of game components.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/427388/tend
Mainly reviews. Tend is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 42 reviews, 8 how-to-play guides, 21 recorded sessions, and 16 unboxings.
1 - 6 players
60 - 90 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach
About Tend, from BoardGameGeek:
In Tend, players take on the role of a pioneer working for the Zenith corporation to start a homestead on a new alien world.
Tend is a "flip and write" game where players are each building up their own farm and collecting the greatest selection of goods to send back to Zenith HQ for study. All players will be using the same deck of action cards each round to simultaneously take actions on their own sheets.
As the game progresses new cards will be added to the shared deck, changing what actions are available for the whole table throughout the course of the game.
Players earn victory points for collecting badges, completing season objectives, being the best neighbor, and filling up their Cargo Manifest with goods to send back to Zenith HQ. In the end, the player with the most victory points wins!
-description from the designer
Designers
Max Anderson, Zac Dixon, Austin Harrison, Toby Sarnelle