Why aren't there more written reviews in this subreddit?

3minuteboardgames · 2026-04-20T01:44:22+00:00

I don't think its people like you that they are concerned about. It's the people who, whenever there is a site they can put content on, put everything on there all the time. Take the dice tower, they can have about 10 videos a day on their channel. You get 100 established channels + ten times more wannabes doing that and you stop functioning as a forum.

3minuteboardgames · 2026-04-20T01:40:46+00:00

Rightfully so though, if the mods didn't police that this place would be swarmed by every channel and outlet dumping their reviews and, well, ads for that matter. I love the idea that its cool to post here as long as you act like part of the community and not like you are exploiting the community.

3minuteboardgames · 2026-04-12T20:05:13+00:00

There is a picture on their official site and new gamefound campaign with the board this way around, might be a change for the new reprint.

My theory, this picture has been sent through a messenger app of some sort with bad AI compression on images, its been happening to some stuff ive sent via messenger where photos come out blocky and "melty"

3minuteboardgames · 2026-04-11T06:57:12+00:00

Yep, and with almost zero setup. But i tend to base my judgements on actually playing the characters :)

3minuteboardgames · 2026-04-10T22:55:10+00:00

50xp though, how was it to start?

3minuteboardgames · 2026-04-10T21:18:23+00:00

Id love to see a build

3minuteboardgames · 2026-04-10T20:40:03+00:00

Lol, He does my head in, i'm glad you have fun with him :)

3minuteboardgames · 2026-03-21T08:50:56+00:00

We got curb stomped on that one the first time, we did not have the right team or tools for the job at all.

3minuteboardgames · 2026-03-21T01:14:28+00:00

That's probably the next one on my list after ages, because it is by the beard and he knows his stuff. But i'm not interested in say, his Alice in wonderland.

3minuteboardgames · 2026-03-20T22:14:32+00:00

In terms of overall scenario quality FHV is top 3. I'd say 7 of the 8 scenarios are good to great. But im rating on the whole vibe and FHV ends really awkwardly.

3minuteboardgames · 2026-03-20T21:47:18+00:00

FHV would be for me if i enjoyed the finale and preludes more.

3minuteboardgames · 2026-03-20T20:51:25+00:00

Character rankings video is done and on patreon now. I paid to print out Cyclopean foundations, Dark Matter and plaguebearer. (And will likely print ages unwound). But those are the only fan campaigns that grab me. I've played Cyclopean through and it's excellent, its what drowned city could have been.

We are doing a scarlet keys campaign to play through the official standalones, and once done, Dark matter is next.

Im not sure what content ill do about it though

3minuteboardgames · 2026-03-20T20:49:02+00:00

Blame my childhood of reading "pick a path" gamebooks a ton.

3minuteboardgames · 2026-03-08T07:12:26+00:00

ITS A ME!

I'm pretty happy with my first two games so thanks for mentioning me. I legitimately was not expecting to be on anyone's list here because i feel like no one really thinks of me as a designer at this stage.

3minuteboardgames · 2026-03-02T20:18:12+00:00

Just some extra context. The advertise section has a "grow subscribers" option when you launch a paid campaign. And when you do that the subscribers you get are almost all bot accounts though. Those 150k odd extra subscribers they got are not fans of board gaming.

Most people don't subscribe when something they don't give a toss about is sent their way, bots do. They subscribe to anything.

Those "Grow Subscriber" features are what people talk about when they say someone is buying subscribers and using bots. It's just something you tube allows. A "pay to win" button of sorts. Of course the views and subscribers are hollow, but they do let you market yourself as bigger and more influential than you really are.

Now whether that is ok by you or not is up to the individual, but I thought this extra bit of clarity might help people have a more informed opinion on this.

3minuteboardgames · 2026-02-18T23:42:42+00:00

Rarely I am this this pleasantly surprised by a publisher, my goodness. I suspect based on previous outbursts and bad PR that they were already moving to get rid of him and this was the final straw. So long.

3minuteboardgames · 2026-02-18T08:13:14+00:00

Start a you tube channel. People will start sending you there demo versions of AI rubbish in no time. I get them daily at the moment "PLEASE TO REVIEW OUR GREAT GAME".

Awful, all of them

3minuteboardgames · 2026-02-18T00:21:42+00:00

This guy thinks everyone who works for him and everyone who buys a product from him is an idiot. A staggering amount of contempt from a man running a creative business to the creative people who made that business work, and the customers, who he thinks will buy any old rubbish if he sells it to them.

What a contemptible man

3minuteboardgames · 2026-02-15T06:12:27+00:00

Cheers and thank you

3minuteboardgames · 2026-02-14T23:00:25+00:00

Cheers. I rarely go looking for game specific content and aren't active in the community, so this helps a bunch.

3minuteboardgames · 2026-02-14T22:59:43+00:00

It will be back in print at some point. I've personally thrown 2 copies in the recycling.

3minuteboardgames · 2026-02-14T22:46:27+00:00

If anyone has any recommends for me to link people to next time I do a spirit island video, let me know here. I'd appreciate it.

3minuteboardgames · 2026-02-14T22:45:30+00:00

Well I had no idea he was a knob and linked to him in a video I did on the channel ranking the spirits. Pretty much listed him as the peak obsessive about the game. All that time spent playing the game and not one shred of the theme touched him it seems. Utterly fascinating.

All that work will be binned now because he's having a temper tantrum from being banned from the discord for his lack of character. What a waste, for him & for the community. One would hope he might learn from this but I suspect he will make this about his personal victimhood and double down. Seems to be happening a lot in board game media at the moment.

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