New video on the channel! This time I took a look at the solo mode in the recent Stefan Feld dice based civilization game, Civolution, from @pegasusspiele.bsky.social. This video was made possible by the gracious sponsorship from @nobleknightgames.bsky.social youtu.be/vXrJSQANE7Q

Purple Moose Plays...Civolution (solo) - sponsored by Noble Knight Games

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New video up on the channel! This time a took a look at the flip and write game Tend, from designers Max Anderson, Zac Dixon, Austin Harrison, and Toby Sarnelle and publisher IV Studio. youtu.be/DqGYMegdvHs

Purple Moose Plays...Tend (solo) - review copy

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Had a bit of fun with Uniqlo's make your own T-shirt app!

Had a gift card to the Button Shy store from last Black Friday, and was in the area, so used it as an opportunity to finally grab a copy of Vivo!

New video on the channel! This time I took a preview look at the solo mode for Ringyo (林業), from designer Charlie McCarron and @paverson.bsky.social , on Kickstarter now! youtu.be/NJXwjxU43bY

Purple Moose Plays...Ringyo (solo) - Kickstarter Preview

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Also been playing a bunch of the prototype of the upcoming set collection, building game, Rainbow Blvd, in prep for a video!

New game on the review pile from Asmodee, Ninjago: Destiny's Bounty Adventures. It's a co-op crisis management game with six increasingly difficult scenarios. Very cool that as you level up in a scenario, you add weapons and accessories to your Lego figure!

Got my new copy of Trifle to the table today with my son, as his introduction to trick taking. It's a very simple may follow game, where you're scoring the value of the cards you win in your tricks, with the twist that the highest card, the Q, is not a number so is worth 0.

My son started asking to get Castle Panic back to the table this week, playing today with the Engines of War expansion, pulling out a super tight win with only a single tower and two walls left!

Played my first game of Walking in Kamogawa from Emperor S4. The rules are a bit rough (the Japanese rules are a bit better), but it's a pretty fun tile laying, set collection game with some interesting scoring mechanisms, that also seems to play pretty well solo!

Been playing a bunch of Ringyo, the upcoming game from @paverson.bsky.social, in prep for a video, and finally pulled off a win against the AI today! Really enjoying the sort of worker placement/resource management feel of the game so far, and it seems to offer a great challenge.

Surprise package today, gonna likely need to wait until late summer/early fall to get to, but super excited about these!!

New video up on the channel! This time I took a preview look at Eureka!, one of two new solo only games launched on Kickstarter today from @bitewinggames.bsky.social , this one a quick playing twist on Yahtzee from Reiner Knizia! youtu.be/PNX4tj6X5PE?...

Purple Moose Plays...Eureka! (solo) - Kickstarter preview

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Finally got my Tokyo Game Market haul today, excited to dig into these!

New video up on the channel! This time I took a look at the solo mode for Tea Garden, from designer Tomáš Holek and publishers Albi and @capstone-games.com , as well as the new additions in the Puerh expansion! youtu.be/j8bE0Flilwo

Purple Moose Plays...Tea Garden w/ Puerh Expansion (solo) - review copy

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New video up on the channel! This time I took a look at the solo mode for the card shedding game, Otter, from designer Dylan Coyle and Charming Games Collective. youtu.be/729Y41pmOns

Purple Moose Plays...Otter (solo) - review copy

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Got Civolution back to the table today in preparation for recording (hopefully tomorrow), and I still really love this game. But I'm definitely not good at it. Lost by one point this time, 196-197, against the beginner level AI...

Finished out the night tonight with a few more plays of Doom Cat and finally pulled off a win! Had mistakenly read the solo win as 70 points, when it's actually 70 points PER CARD...whoops. Still digging the fun twist on a drawing/spatial puzzler roll and write.

Been playing a bunch of Tend since I got it last week, and while I don't love the lack of win condition in solo, I'm really enjoying the mechanics of the game. I also love the only web app and how there are solo challenges in the book using that. Video coming soon!

New video up on the channel! This time I took a look at the solo only, hand/tableau management game, Adamastor, from designer Orlando Sá and Ludonova/Asmodee! youtu.be/1BxdT_Zo32s

Purple Moose Plays...Adamastor - review copy

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Been getting back into Sagrada lately, so couldn't pass this up when I saw it for half price and then also realized I could use my $10 Shop credit on it as well! Curious to see what a legacy, coloring book version of Sagrada is like.

All set up for a solo game of Glow!

Got Adamastor back to the table today for a play in prep for a video and then again as a recorded playthrough. Managed to win in the first play and was kicking myself that I didn't record, but then managed to pull off another win on camera!

New video up on the channel! This time I took a look at the upcoming narrative puzzle book, The Stormlamp Rituals, hitting Kickstarter tomorrow from @postcurious.bsky.social and @jackfallows.bsky.social ! youtu.be/AayTQyMsMdI

Purple Moose Plays The Stormlamp Rituals Kickstarter preview

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Got Gift Craft to the table for a solo play, and enjoying what I've seen so far. It's a very quick pick and pass closed drafting game where you draft six cards to build up resources to make a stuffie and score as many points as possible.

Picked up some new games in a trade! Very excited to finally own a copy of Glow and have been wanting to add at least one game with OBOtto art to my collection, so Gift Craft was a great place to start!

New video up on the channel! This time I returned to @horribleguild.bsky.social Railroad Tiles to take a look at the Canals expansion! youtu.be/hwa8v5qaDQI

Purple Moose Plays...Railroad Tiles: Canals (solo) - sponsored by Noble Knight Games

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Played another game of @horribleguild.bsky.social Railroad Tiles: Canals today to refresh before finishing up my video on it. Still really enjoying this game and the variation the expansions add!

First game of Doom Cat in the books, and another Charming Games Collective game that I really enjoy! The drawing of the sigils is a pretty fun and unique twist on what is a very simple roll and write mechanism, and working to maximize goal scoring is a great puzzle. Excited about all the goals!