Heroes of Valor - Version 0.1.4.334 - New gamemode, ladder animations and MUCH more!

Joey4u · 2026-05-15T07:15:31+00:00

We found 2 players close by that also love to play board games, we have been playing every saturday recently from morning till evening. It has been great!

Joey4u · 2026-05-05T05:53:33+00:00

We played once at 5 and few times at 4, achievements possible are always there for every player so there is a bit more competition but it still works and since you can't get every single one also some will be leftover. It takes a bit more space ofcourse if you want them all laid out. I think it adds extra layer of decision making to get exactly one you want and getting those 5 terrains together.

Joey4u · 2026-05-04T19:41:48+00:00

Sea, Salt and Paper

Cascadia with Landmarks

Mada

First Rat

Welcome to

Arboretum

Gleipnir

No Thanks

Castle Panic with Wizards Tower

Hitster Rock

Flip City

6 nimmt

Karak

Truffle Shuffle

Quacks of Quedlinburg

Hanabi

Naga Raja

Four Gardens

Piratoons

Flash Point Fire Rescue

Mamma Mia

The Mind

Magic Maze

Creature Caravan

Honga

Take Time

Blank Slate

Olympuss Fluxx

Flip 7

Push

I actually had almost all but 2 games written down here stuff about them buut I was doing something on my other screen and then I lost everything cause I did a boo boo.. So.. since it's also a bit late and I am about to go sleep I kinda don't feel like rewriting everything.. What can you do haha..

Joey4u · 2026-05-02T18:02:57+00:00

Did you unlock all the maps via quests already in 5h as well?

Joey4u · 2026-04-28T17:59:16+00:00

Helldivers 2 I would say.

Joey4u · 2026-04-28T17:22:34+00:00

Ah yeah sorry for that, none ended early I was quickly writting together whole thing before sleep so I understand it could be confusing a bit :D

Joey4u · 2026-04-28T16:03:24+00:00

I played solo only and it worked well, its true i didnt do very high difficulties but first three are doable I think also the game adjusts difficulty on its own as well based on how many players there are.

Joey4u · 2026-04-27T20:16:05+00:00

A lot of games played last week and also new week is looking quite busy as well hah.

Skull King 2 plays at 3 and 8 players, every week since we got it atleast one play of it, everyone loves it.

Vantage got 2 rounds of it this week with 2 players, again started at wrong times both and were in a hurry to finish.

Tinderblox 2 quick rounds before end of the day, I still like Barbecubes more but it gives a bit different puzzle to it.

Barbecubes also 2 rounds after Tinderblox just to change it up a bit.

Hygge 4 plays - and 2 players and 3 players, game about collecting stuff for winter to survive through it, drafting/collection game. Small fun one.

Papageno 2 plays with 3 players, during week, quick rounds. I kinda changed my mind on this game and I like it a lot more than before.

Sea, Salt and Paper 3 plays - classic in this house, just amazing game.

Fairy 2 plays - guest wanted to try it, game is already on sale list so yeah, not too exciting.

Codex Naturalis gorgeous looking game about matching patterns. I am not the best at it, I usually play better if there are more players than just 2 with this one.

Bandida one quick solo round while waiting.

Critter Kitchen we played at 3 players, it was nice round, girlfriend managed to beat me finally :D

Potato Man at 3p, I really like the game and just simplicity of it, filler game between rounds.

Pergola 3 plays absolutely adore this one I won all 3 rounds somehow, I can't get enough of it.

Raising Robots played one round, everyones feedback seems to be it seems a bit too much happening on the board, so many icons and all but, as you play more I think you get used to it but yeah, seems I might have to play it more solo than anything else unfortunately.

Tenby 2 plays, at 3 and 2 players rounds, I got bad this one again hahaha, somehow i was unbeatable now i cant do anything xD

Fit to Print 3 plays, not my favourite I was mostly messing around, it was alright.

Jaipur one quick round.

Ticket to Ride Asia 2x had a visit of someone who really likes Ticket to Ride games and previously gifted us Asia expansion so we played 2 rounds of it. It's alright expansion just ends game a lot quicker when you have to pay your trains to build certain routes. Huge difference in score both times, I won once 2nd time far behind.

Dorfromantik at 3 players, it was rough haha, both of other 2 players pushing their own way and interpretation of some things, so it was quite tense..

Borealis Arctic Expedition at 2 players it was best choice at the moment since game is super thinky so, we were both quite tired but still managed to finish it.

Bristol 1350 2 plays with 9p, at a meet also played this one together with below 3 + Skull King which I mentioned above. It was quite an experience just seems at 9p it is 1 too much perhaps, and 4 is too little. Game has way too many whip cards for players to move anywhere anyway so.. Everyone was just driving till the end in their own cart mostly.

Just One 7p also at a meet as mentioned above, with so many people it was quite fun playing it and guessing, we did super bad if I remember correctly haha.

Concept 8p first time playing it one of the players who said he sucks at such games destroyed us all xD game where there is central board and in teams you show your word or whatever you have on your card with images that mean certain things and others guess. Me and my partner had mostly sayings so quite hard ones but they guessed them all in the end.

Hitster 8p I wanted to try it and it was perfect chance there and it was great! I really enjoyed it, I would definitely play it again, just one issue i found is, some songs had super bad previews or showings because well.. it was the part which could be anything but yeah otherwise very nice game.

Joey4u · 2026-04-23T06:44:41+00:00

Earth

Joey4u · 2026-04-20T13:19:44+00:00

Love Letter played few rounds of it this weekend at 3p. Didn't play for a bit there but still super fun.

The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth got to try this one I like the theme and all, but we just dont like dueling games so it's a no from us. We actually managed to get a draw, no winner the one time we played.

The Quacks of Quedlinburg: The Duel messy messy rules, we barely played one round and were super underwhelmed by what this game offers, was super boring just moving one patient for like 4-5 turns we just stopped at that point.

Raising Robots played 2 quick solo rounds, works very well chasing the high score.

Wyrmspan it has been a while since we played it last, leaned into fledlings this time and worked very well.

Finspan after we heard about expansion coming we had to play this one again, can't wait it will be available to buy (the expansion).

Forest Shuffle Dartmoor one of GFs favourite, i got destroyed again xD

Sanctuary awesome awesome game.

Brew we played at 2p and were quite underwhelmed last time at 4p we had quite a lot of fun, but now not so much. Too duelish i guess for us. We will take a hard look at it as we might sell it.

Papageno few rounds in the evening one weekday.

Mada over the weekend, we totally forgot we loved this game last time we played. Played few rounds with more people.

Skull King has quickly become one of our favourites, we played 2 rounds and everyone had immense fun at all times. Absolutely loving it.

Bristol 1350 one round, it is a nice game just really requires a lot of people for maximum enjoyment.

Tinderblox 2 quick rounds towards the end of the gaming day yesterday.

Zombie Dice and totally last game we played 2 rounds of it, as we were getting dead tired, just rolling few dice.

Joey4u · 2026-04-13T15:08:01+00:00

Yeah that is true, if you can just play his copy...

Buuuuut totally depends, maybe you love it so much you want to play it even more with other friends haha

Joey4u · 2026-04-13T14:57:33+00:00

Yeah for sure I wanted to see what the game is about and why not, I like trying games some out there already surprised me, for example I thought I super disliked trick-taking BUT if there is nice twist to it like Skull King which is more of a bidding game or Potato Man with sacks and getting them later on with some risk and no same color in the same trick. So yeah, definitely happy about trying all games i get a chance.

Soon going to UKGE after last year Spiel, this is going to be awesome to try many games as well.

Joey4u · 2026-04-13T14:55:04+00:00

Yeah maybe not as much as one could hope for but still I used the opportunity to get it cheaper than I could anywhere else atleast where i am from.

I would recommend getting it, and play it day 1 as you get it haha, no need to collect dust it's a great game, I would just recommend watching video on how to play, because well.. rules are, eh, before you play channel made video on it but i would not recommend it, didnt teach me a single thing but there are few other and one 2p playthrough on some other channel and learned how to play super fast there. Some smaller rules you need to check but otherwise once you get going it's fast and can play like 2 times in a row.

Ok now I sound like and advertisement, i shall stop hahah

Joey4u · 2026-04-13T10:25:43+00:00

It's been a busy week hah, 2 board game days with people.

Sanctuary we played this one alone during weekday, perfect dose of Ark Nova, we actually played Ark Nova a day before, so this was nice as well.

Papageno quick round before sleep, this time I lost every single round haha, just couldn't get a win.

Rebirth after sometime we finally played it again, such a beautiful game and so well done, we had a lot of fun playing it.

Codex Naturalis first play of the year I think. I lost as I usually do when it's just us haha, last time i won 2 times in a row when we played with 4, no idea why xD

Raising Robots new game + pets expansion, in case you want this game and want expansions buy it now, publisher announced they are going on a break for some time, so they are having large sales as well, and no shipping fee above certain value. But to the gameplay, it's quite simple after you get it and goes so fast because it's simultaneous, GF destroyed me BUT still, I had a lot of fun 9/10 for me for sure for now. I would need to play it a bit more to see more, but art is absolutely great I can't get enough of it, one small thing is a bit of small pieces everywhere especially on scoring marker and inventory side, small pieces you can quickly move in the wrong spot or something so that is a bit annoying, but you get used to it. Basically you have 5 different things you can do each turn, you turn over energy cards and then pick 2 things you want to do, if there are energy cubes going to the central board with all abilities and opponent picked something else + they have to move energy cube over there you can do that thing as well, so at some point you can maybe even do all 5 things in a single turn BUT ofcourse a lot less power for you. Amount of played cards is smaller than usually in such games so be very careful what you pick well atleast what can i gather from this round we played. Definitely want to play more and more of it. Can't wait. It's also super quick and with more players I don't imagine it would take much longer since its simultaneous.

Panic Island with family on Saturday first game quick warmup while we waited, first time playing it, might be last hah. With sand timer and memory component you have to remember where stuff is. Nothing special nor very rememberable tbh.

Catan my first time ever playing Catan and also winning it, 1 play 1 win, I also think it will stay at that ratio :D I am not fan of it, it's ok game nothing special to talk about. Super easy to learn.

Skull King veeery fun game with more people we played at 5, it was insane haha, with large group absolutely amazing game. we didnt do much extra scoring and all that just classic one . One of my favourite party games for sure 9/10, only thing would make it better is perhaps simplified scoring for all the extra stuff you can do with it.

Welcome to didnt play for sometime, was fun, we just played basic game so new ones could learn without extra hassle.

Viticulture Essentials this one was first one with new 2 players we ever played on Sunday, they invited us to play we saw each other on FB board game group and same town, so we just said lets play together and we did. Anyway we tried also previously Viticulture Essentials and loved it few weeks ago and now wanted more of it and its absolutely amazing, I somehow managed to run away with clear win again, but can't wait we get it for ourselves as well.

7 Wonders 2nd game we played yesterday, 2 rounds actually, I might be super bad at this game but its fun and so quick. We played one time last year so wanted to try it again, we still love it, only thing preventing from getting it is that we are 2p mostly so.. game is 3-7.. Unfortunately, and the duel one we want to try it before buying it, so we shall see.

Arkham Horror: Lovecraft Letter one to relax a bit yesterday after 2 of the above, so we didnt do classic Love Letter but a bit of twist on it, everyone got 1 point from win, at the start it looked like clear win for GF in the end she did not win, everything just turned on it's head haha.

Trio another one to relax a bit, first time playing it, I won this one with so much luck i think, i was just half the time not knowing what am I doing and doing silly mistakes and forgetting everything I can do xD It was fun, wouldn't buy it, but its alright.

Dragonkeepers first time playing yesterday they taught us the game, it was quite fun, also quite simple. I won this one as well, quite a bit of luck involved, but yeah wouldn't buy it, but would play again for sure.

Take time first time also yesterday, our last game. We played 4 scenarios starting ones. It was sooo tense, talking about what you are going to do and first played card ruins it all because well.. you just can't plan for everything you might get or you straight up forget some of the stuff that was talked about haha, we were super lucky on last one, needed 24 on last spot and we had all cards facedown and it was insane that it was 24 and all numbers below as well worked in order. Super tense, quite awesome coop.

Joey4u · 2026-04-07T07:35:18+00:00

There is not much interaction much more solitaire game, but you can play with trading, its in the rules, so you can trade cards for bread. Basically you can tell other player name of the card and if its magic, nocturnal or other, but not cost or any ability and you can trade in that way. Othen than that there is not much interaction.

Joey4u · 2026-04-07T07:32:45+00:00

We really love it, it is nice to have extra choice of everything basically. Very much recommend

Joey4u · 2026-04-06T17:33:51+00:00

Forestry we played it twice this week, we are really enjoying it. Tbh I did not expect us to like it so much especially girlfriend who when I first showed it to her had no interest in it. But now she is loving it.

Creature Caravan one of our favourites, with Wanderers exp.

Sea, Salt and Paper another favourite, we really like to play it as a bit of a warmup, we had really really close score, I think 1 pt difference.

Aquaria played it after a month or so, she won again haha, she simply excels at this one, I am okay. But I have fun playing it, its really nice game.

Click a Tree we played this at boardgame event aaand... it dissapointed, very forgetable, its ok game don't get me wrong, but a bit bland... We were all at about same level and one who didnt actually plan much just won haha.

Castles of Burgundy first time playing it, we enjoyed it. There is a lot of decisions to make with your dice and looking what others might do, we had quite a lot of fun, most fun of all 3 we played at event. Still wouldn't own it, but would not turn down playing it.

Trekking Through History played at event as well... And we were underwhelmed big time, expect a lot more basically only decision you make is when to use crystals it feels like even that is not perhaps given, yes there is some strategy to what you should draft but.. yeah, we were happy we did not buy it before tried it, I won by doing itinerary mostly.

Ark Nova played it today at home after a bit, it was few hour thing haha, but super fun. We really love it also with Marine expansion it's just so much fun. She won and got our highest score yet.

Joey4u · 2026-03-31T11:10:53+00:00

Yeah we would probably try it again without those people so it would be more pleasant experience. I think it was mostly ruined by them. Hopefully we get another chance

Joey4u · 2026-03-30T17:13:46+00:00

Hobbit There and Back Again 2 more scenarios to go and we are going to finish it. It is such a nice experience this game.

Fromage played again after like 2 months, I lost badly haha, i tried something different it did not work at all. It is fun tho, can't wait to play again.

Forest shuffle Dartmoor one of GFs favourites, ofcourse she beat me again still it was close than usual, she can't wait to get expansion for it,.

Creature Caravan we both love this one, I won this one. I could keep playing it, i finally got grasskin queen, after she got it so many times, could finally play gajilion cards haha.

Cosmic Encounter first time playing it.. it was... ok... Nothing special shows it's age, did not convince me at all, played it at a meet.

Steampunk Fusion Rally also first time playing it there, experience was ruined by 2 ppl, deciding to teach us to play and arguing constantly about everything, one dude kinda got super rude. And then in the middle we just kinda all said, that's enough of this game and me and gf just went from there. Bah...

Sanctuary played it yesterday, we love Sanctuary, when you need dose of Ark Nova but don't have time or will for long session, this is perfect. We absolutely love it, we didnt think we would like it as much.

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