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Nov 14, 2025·Review·28:55·54·Watch on YouTube

VANEA: Guardians of the Eldertree - Is not guarding the tree a choice? - Kickstarter Critique Review

Bower's Game Corner

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Watch “VANEA: Guardians of the Eldertree - Is not guarding the tree a choice? - Kickstarter Critique Review,” a board game review on BoardGameVideo.

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Interested in having your next Kickstarter project featured? Check out my Fiverr - https://www.fiverr.com/share/LBGxap Check out the Kickstarter: https://gamefound.com/en/projects/forgotten-tales/vanea?ref=explore-homepage-projectlists 3 Spectacular Reads For Any Kickstarter Creator: 1- https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/how-to-get-featured-on-kickstarter 2- https://help.kickstarter.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005135214-How-does-my-project-become-a-Project-We-Love-or-get-featured-on-the-homepage- 3- https://thegogofactor.com/hacking-the-kickstarter-ranking-algorithm/ Want To Help The Channel Get Better? Consider my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Bowersgamecorner Purchase games on Amazon and support the channel!?: http://amzn.to/2rTdgsf Get a peak behind the scenes and join my Facebook Group!: https://www.facebook.com/BowersGameCorner For More INfo: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/439212/vanea-guardians-of-the-eldertree From The Publisher: Welcome to VANEA. A mystical and fairytale world. This game takes place in the ElderForest. You are a Guardian of the ElderTree and must defend it against scary monsters, bosses and the spreading darkmoon rot. Explore the ElderForest. Collect 6 different elemental orbs to master all of these elementals. Find magical orbs to learn new abilities and collect ore to craft powerful and legendary equipment. It's all about LOOT guys!!! Hunt these monsters, let your monster farm grow and get your cute elemental companion. Mechanics Explore the ElderForest (every game you play you will build a different and random hex field map) Collect more and more of the 6 different elemental spirits to master these 6 elements Elemental battle system Get your cute elemental companion Find magical orbs to learn new abilities Collect equipment pieces to create powerful and legendary equipment ElderTree mode: Defend the AelderTree against all monsters and elemental bosses Monster farm mode: Hunt monsters and let your monster farm grow Defend your castle: Each Guardian must collect points and keep an eye on his own castle Scenario "All vs All or Team vs Team": Each Guardian or team has its own task, and whoever completes it first wins ...and don't let the Loot Monster get away ;) It's all about LOOT guys!!!

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VANEA: Guardians of the Eldertree

VANEA: Guardians of the Eldertree

2025·Florian Molzahn

Videos
12
Creators
5

Mostly how-to-play and playthroughs. VANEA: Guardians of the Eldertree is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 2 reviews, 5 how-to-play guides, 3 recorded sessions, 1 unboxings, and 1 other video.

1 - 4 players
45 - 120 min

About VANEA: Guardians of the Eldertree, from BoardGameGeek:

Welcome to VANEA. A mystical and fairytale world. This game takes place in the ElderForest. You are a Guardian of the ElderTree and must defend it against scary monsters, bosses and the spreading darkmoon rot. Explore the ElderForest. Collect 6 different elemental orbs to master all of these elementals. Find magical orbs to learn new abilities and collect ore to craft powerful and legendary equipment. It's all about LOOT guys!!! Hunt these monsters, let your monster farm grow and get your cute elemental companion. Mechanics Explore the ElderForest (every game you play you will build a different and random hex field map) Collect more and more of the 6 different elemental spirits to master these 6 elements Elemental battle system Get your cute elemental companion Find magical orbs to learn new abilities Collect equipment pieces to create powerful and legendary equipment ElderTree mode: Defend the AelderTree against all monsters and elemental bosses Monster farm mode: Hunt monsters and let your monster farm grow Defend your castle: Each Guardian must collect points and keep an eye on his own castle Scenario "All vs All or Team vs Team": Each Guardian or team has its own task, and whoever completes it first wins ...and don't let the Loot Monster get away ;) It's all about LOOT guys!!!

Designer

Florian Molzahn

Artist

Adrian Cuevas

Publisher

Forgotten Tales

Categories

AdventureDice

Mechanics

Action PointsArea Movement
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