Gaia Project - Playthrough & Review

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Welcome to the start of our monthly "Shelf of Opportunity" segment where we play through a board game off of our shelf that was voted for by our wonderful Patreon community! This is "Gaia Project," a board game designed by Jens Drögemüller and Helge Ostertag & published by Capstone Games. This video includes a rules overview.

JUMP:
00:00 - Overview/Rules Teach
20:31 - Playthrough Start
24:02 - Round 1
33:07 - Round 2
42:06 - Round 3
49:21 - Round 4
01:02:05 - Round 5
01:12:01 - Round 6
01:26:48 - End Game Scoring
01:30:27 - Review

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[BeforeYouPlay]

The great debate, Gaia Project or Terra Mystica... which do you prefer?

[sewaprolo]

I was having such a horrible day, but this upload just made my day exponentially better. You're my favorite channel. Love your videos.

[rafaelkumakura]

@1:23:01 when Monique took the advanced tech tile she should have covered a basic tech tile she owns. Good job guys, great gameplay!

[neilirving]

Wow I'm impressed!! I've watched a couple of your videos and it's always Monique that wins, this totally caught me off guard!!! Another great video guys! We played this a couple of months ago and your video made me want to play it again.

[-Ambos-]

I am so happy to have your videos. I am new to board games and there are so many games that I feel a bit lost.
It helps a lot to watch specifically your videos because I can relate very well to the way you think about games. Also it feels very honest what you say ahout games.

Thank you for your nice videos! Greetings from Germany


(Btw I just ordered the game after watching this video)

[AhJong]

What a fantastic play through - love the style of your play with commentary on thought process. The visual framing is great and the video length is ace - awesome stuff!

[helgeostertag]

Great review! You really did a thorough analysis of the game. God job and a very pleasant way how you talk about everything.

[miguelpereira]

Nice! Thank you so much, Monique and Naveen! Yet another awesome playthrough of yet another great game :D I always have such a great time watching you guys play, be it heavier or lighter games, and since I started watching your playthroughs I've actually been slowly evolving on my boardgaming journey step-by-step, from lighter, more gateway-level games like Schotten Totten or Cascadia, up to something like Castles of Burgundy or Cubitos, and then all the way up to stuff like Dune Imperium, Le Havre and now Gaia Project (btw, I hold you guys responsible for my ongoing love affair with Dune Imperium and pretty much most Uwe Rosenberg big games..)

Keep up the great work, please. You sure have one of my top 3 youtube channels out here, so yea, you have another big fan here in Portugal.

[HITFORDCYCLE]

I played this at one of the first Cons I went to. I was kind of nervous going to my first con by myself. I walked up to the table and they asked right away if I wanted to play, warning me
That it is a heavy game. I said I play terra
Mystica. The people in our hobby are so nice. They welcomed me to the table and I had a great time.

[TheBrothersMurph]

We haven’t played terra mystica or Gaia project yet but this has me hyped to try this one for sure. Seems like an awesome game and the 2 player experience seemed rad. Great play y’all!

[SoloClub]

1:22:50 when you take an advanced tech tile, you state that you go up the track you took it from but you can actually pick any track you want (even though you picked the best choice at the time anyways.

You also forgot your 5 bonus points for gaining a federation token when you went up that track and should have won the game by 3 points.

[sergiojuan]

I just love watching your videos. It’s so refreshing to watch euro games being played. There are so few out there and you guys do such a great job with them.

[rogerschmitt]

This is BY FAR the best Gaia Project gameplay video on Youtube! Could you please do another one with different factions?

[jaysonjota]

For any game I buy this is the go to channel. The best and thank you for such great produced videos

[donthatethegame]

I just re-watched this video, one year later. Great playthrough.

[bgt]

Oh wow! Just when the game released on Steam. Great timing!!!! <3

[damaddestgamer]

Probably the best teach of this game I've seen yet, though would prefer you keep the clingon subtitles, as mistakes were made!

[rudirincewind]

TM is perfect for 4-5 Players. Gaia is perfect for 2 Player.
🍻 From Germany

[STFOURNARIS]

That was a very nice demonstration . As a new player this helped me understand how this game works.
Thank you

[SBPlaysGames]

Happy to see an upload from one of my favorite board game channels playing one of my favorite games.

Also, Naveen's shirt is super cool!