8 Positive Game Reviews with Tom Vasel

Love the tie

I wanted to like Everdell but first few playthroughs with the localized edition really suffered by the mistranslations and terminology typos, which in the end spoiled the fun from it.

I don’t get the Amish look. Only Americans have beards without moustaches. It’s so odd.

The common factor with all of these games? Gorgeous table presence. All of them.

I see Metroplex in the background!

Not since Texas Chainsaw Massacre has a title spoiled the content to this extent

In my last game of Everdell, I was still in winter when my friends were in summer (one just entered, the other almost to autumn). I had so much luck in that game and kept finding things to do, even with so few workers.

really want empires of the north, hope it goes down in price soon.

Hey Tom, I really enjoy when you mention your family and how well a game fits in with you all. It's not a point I hear mentioned a whole lot and I would love to hear it mentioned more often.

Hadara is such a great, quick drafting game!

Sir… Your dressing style covers like 4 decades! Way to never get out of date.

Great review format!

I had similar thoughts after my first couple plays of Everdell. But the more I play it the more its strategies reveal themselves. I think the theme works well for it, where it starts slow as you come out of winter, scavenging for every little bit you can get and by the end of a successful harvest at the end of fall your only limit tends to be how well you planned the earlier rounds.

Interesting to see EotN rating better than Everdell given how popular it is on bgg. How do they compare? Which one does engine building better?

I enjoyed this. It's great to come back to some games that other reviewers mentioned that have gotten solid reviews. The other video was interesting as well.

I this as a new series. Keep up the great work.

I won Detective as the Chisel. It was fantastic.

the problem with imperial settlers empires of the north is that you're cycling through almost all the deck at every game, therefore each faction plays mostly the same every time.
also, some factions are criminally underpowered and the "higher difficulty" ones will always stomp on the lower ones with almost zero effort.
game is very enjoyable but these issues are very apparent after a couple of games. I personally enjoy the first game better because it's more unique (I mean, to play a faction card you often need to destroy another one you have in play: so many hard choices). it has its flaws too, but the game is different every time you play, as you don't cycle your deck quite as much

I thought 8 negative reviews were bad, but after watching this i see the point of both.
Keep doing both. Please.

Great format!