Watch “PARKS Solo Playthrough and Review | Bits & Biology,” a gameplay video for Parks from Bits & Biology on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by Bits & Biology on YouTube:
Welcome to Bits & Biology, a channel about board games from the perspective of a biologist gamer. In this video I play a solo game of PARKS followed by a review of the game (multiplayer & solo). Timestamps can be found below in case you want to skip around.
Fair warning - I'm a bit chattier than usual in this video! I have worked in two national parks and visited many of them, which makes for a lot of stories... I also talk a bit about the idea behind national parks and how they got started in the United States.
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Have you played PARKS? What do you think of the game? What other games would you like to see on the channel? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below!
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
1:01 Solo setup
1:04 Game start – Season 1
15:12 Season 2 (a very chatty season, sorry)
35:11 Season 3 (slightly less chatty)
50:24 Season 4
1:02:18 Scoring
1:03:18 Even more rambling about some of the National Parks
1:09:04 Request for your favorite wilderness park in the comments
1:10:03 Review
Link to PARKS on Board Game Geek: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/266524/parks
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Mainly reviews. Parks is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 42 reviews, 21 how-to-play guides, 14 recorded sessions, 5 unboxings, and 6 other videos.
1 - 5 players
30 - 60 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting
About Parks, from BoardGameGeek:
PARKS is a celebration of the US National Parks featuring illustrious art from Fifty-Nine Parks.
In PARKS, players will take on the role of two hikers as they trek through different trails across four seasons of the year. While on the trail, these hikers will take actions and collect memories of the places your hikers visit. These memories are represented by various resource tokens like mountains and forests. Collecting these memories in sets will allow players to trade them in to visit a National Park at the end of each hike.
Each trail represents one season of the year, and each season, the trails will change and grow steadily longer. The trails, represented by tiles, get shuffled in between each season and laid out anew for the next round. Resources can be tough to come by especially when someone is at the place you're trying to reach! Campfires allow you to share a space and time with other hikers. Canteens and Gear can also be used to improve your access to resources through the game. It'll be tough to manage building up your engine versus spending resources on parks, but we bet you're up to the challenge. Welcome to PARKS!
-description from the publisher
