Gaming Rules! Review - Discoveries

Gaming Rules! produces instructional rules videos, reviews and a podcast.
I also work with game designers and publishers on game development and rulebook writing / editing.

In this video, I give you my review of Discoveries, the Journals of Lewis & Clark.

Review copy provided by Esdevium Games.

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[studleygamer]

Great review Paul. Please keep them coming. My family has been having a great time with this one.

[andygrant]

Very clear and concise review / run through. I've picked this up after watching this. Thanks very much for making this with such care and thought. Appreciate the effort.

[Hakucho]

Small clarification at 5:21 for anyone learning the game from this video: the meeting area gets replenished at the end of your turn, not each time you get a Tribe card (p 6).

[patrykzukowski]

Looks like a pretty basic worker placement BUT disguised as something different. I like when a game disguises itself and does it in a competent way. This one looks like it such a game. I also like the resting mechanic, seems like a very interesting idea for bad interaction. Overall, it looks very good, need to play it.

Oh, and also: very good video, I will subscribe because you explain the rules in such a way that I intuitively know how they work together and what can I expect from the game.

[BigEllPandaBear]

Thanks Paul for a great review. Been interested in this for a while. Now I know it is Gaming Rules APPROVED it is firmly on my list.

[ahzzz-realm]

Like your reviews and rules videos, keep at it please.

[markegli]

Great review. Thanks again for your work on through the ages. I have even got my 15 year old daughter to play!

[Tabletoptogether]

A very nice review Paul. Made me want to go out and buy it :)

[Hakucho]

At 6:00, I count seven tepees. Where is the eighth one?

[grahamcarr]

Great one Paul, next you need to do Expeditions to compliment Discoveries

[charliemopic]

Why did you not comment re the very small text in the rule book??

[cardflopper]

Hi paul, thanks for this high quality video. I really like your show format, it doesn't drag on for too long and it's very concise. I bought this game a while back but I haven't brought it to a meetup yet. Your positive words made me think about moving it up in my queue of games I want to get to the table next!

Question: is it possible to plan ahead at all in this game or was it very chaotic because of dice moving between players?