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Jul 21, 2026·Review·14:00·148·Watch on YouTube

STAG | Evolve Your Beetles, Then Risk Everything | Kickstarter Board Game Preview

kovray

kovray

Watch “STAG | Evolve Your Beetles, Then Risk Everything | Kickstarter Board Game Preview,” a board game review for Stag from kovray on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by kovray on YouTube:

Welcome to Kovray! We're a couple who adores board games and seeks to share our joy and passion with you. Today, we're taking a look at STAG, where you'll raise a variety of beetles from tiny grubs into fully grown adults, preparing them to forage, fight, and survive epic showdowns. STAG is designed and illustrated by J.J. Neville, and published by Split Stone Games, who helped sponsor this video. Learn More: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/splitstonegames/stag-beetle?ref=epqso3 In STAG, you'll guide a colony of beetles through their entire life cycle, raising them from tiny grubs into fully grown adults. Along the way you'll gather food, evolve powerful traits, complete objectives, and prepare your strongest beetles to compete in dramatic showdowns for valuable victory points. STAG features simultaneous play, meaning everyone plans and resolves their actions together. You'll need to carefully balance growth, resource management, and timing as the board shifts and new opportunities emerge. Once all five showdown point tokens have been claimed, the game ends. You'll score points from your surviving beetles, completed objectives, evolved traits, and successful showdowns, and the player with the most points wins. Question of the Day: What is your favorite beetle? Thanks for watching our Kickstarter Board Game Preview video of STAG! 🥰 Enjoyed our content and want to support our work? Please consider checking out our: 📣 Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kovray 💬 Our Discord: https://discord.gg/MsmAHRTecd Follow along our social media to join in on our adventures! 📘Facebook - @Kovray 📸Instagram - @kovraystudios 🩵 Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/kovray.bsky.social 🕰️Tiktok - @kovraystudios 0:00 STAG 0:27 Game Overview 6:58 The Beetles! 7:42 Flow and Presentation 8:12 Simulatenous Play and Action Selection 9:28 THE Showdown 11:27 Trait Tracker 12:34 Engine Building 12:59 Who Is It For? 13:20 Learn More 13:34 Question of the Day BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/453777/stag A prototype of this game was provided to us to share with you. #BoardGames #STAG #Preview

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Stag

Stag

2027·J.J. Neville

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Mainly how-to-play. Stag is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 2 reviews and 3 how-to-play guides.

1 - 4 players
60 - 120 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach

About Stag, from BoardGameGeek:

Stag follows the life cycle of beetles - a game of planning and resource management, culminating in a social deduction showdown where you can lose it all if you're too greedy! Players plan their actions using their action tiles, then resolve them simultaneously. The aim is to score the most points by progressing your beetles through their life cycle, going up the trait track and fulfilling personal and universal objectives. Each stage of the beetle life cycle is represented by the card mats and rings circles on the board (with the middle ring rotating each round). Once two or more beetles reach the final stage, a showdown is triggered! After 5 showdowns points are scored to determine the winner. -description from the designer

Designer

J.J. Neville

Artist

J.J. Neville

Publisher

Split Stone Games

Categories

Abstract StrategyAnimals

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Programmed Actions
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