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Sep 10, 2026
Tom VaselHOST
And nowadays I play it mostly on the app, occasionally play it on the app, and last year I played it in person.
Tom VaselHOST
But nowadays if I'm like, oh, I want to play Terraforming Mars, or I could play Ark Nova, or I could play Earth, or, you know, there's a lot of games that use this base concept and do things.
Tom VaselHOST
It's still cool.
Tom VaselHOST
It kind of
Jamey StegmaierHOST
I agree that some of the best Euro games include big, memorable moments.
Jamey StegmaierHOST
Perhaps the moment when you play a difficult card requiring multiple steps, like an elephant in Ark Nova; the moment when you complete a spatial goal, like when you fill an island in A Feast for Odin; or the moment when you do something incredibly powerful, like when you go to space in Tapestry.
Jamey StegmaierHOST
What's your favorite memorable moment in a Euro game? And last, number five, the invitation of closure.
Jamey StegmaierHOST
Recently, a friend recommended a seven-book series around the same time that someone else suggested a ten-season TV show.
AdamHOST
It's definitely my favorite.
AdamHOST
And so anyone who's interested in something a bit heavier, Ark Nova, it's another game where you're just kind of doing your own thing.
AdamHOST
You're making your own zoo.
AdamHOST
You're not really doing any take that you're not, taking anything away from other people or being aggressive to other people it's part of the reason we both love wingspan so much because there's less there's not much aggression and this is like that as well you're just building your own board and you've got a little bit of interaction cannot recommend that highly enough
AidanHOST
Yeah, I mean, that would be my first answer as well.
AidanHOST
Ark Nova is an excellent game.
AidanHOST
It's also a game that I've not been playing here because we didn't bring it with us.
AidanHOST
We didn't have space.
AndyHOST
And you knock that bad boy, and it's not even like some other games, you can just go, ooh...
AndyHOST
How many points did I have in Ark Nova? How many conservation points did I have? I'll look at my animals that I put in the park and I can count them back up again.
AndyHOST
Terraforming Mars, you can't do that.
AndyHOST
Not in my experience.
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AndyHOST
It does what it does.
AndyHOST
But I got like a sticker pack from Etsy that you just, yeah, you just stick them onto the side of the meeples, these wooden meeples, and it kind of breathes a bit of life into them with a bit more art.
AndyHOST
And Ark Nova, I did the same.
AndyHOST
And I got like little, you know, little shaped meeples and that kind of stuff.
Pete WissingerHOST
I think that it's pretty neat, especially if you like that type of...
Pete WissingerHOST
I think it's good for if you like sort of large deck of card games, right? So if you enjoy your sort of Wingspan, Ark Nova type thing where you're digging through a large deck of cards, but also for a pretty nasty set collection with a little bit of engine building, depending on which ones are in there.
Pete WissingerHOST
It's really doing a lot.
Pete WissingerHOST
It's doing a lot with the cards.
Nick MurphyHOST
Plan and build a modern, scientifically managed zoo to support conservation projects.
Paula DemingPANELIST
That's Ark Nova, baby.
Nick MurphyHOST
That's Ark Nova, baby.
Nick MurphyHOST
Love Ark Nova.
Nick MurphyHOST
Sounds like Sanctuary to me.
Nick MurphyHOST
Honestly, it could be.
Tom VaselHOST
But also, you know, like what is the point of your game night? Is it to hang out with friends? Because – That might just be party games.
Tom VaselHOST
But if it's to play games, if that's the point, I want to play Earth or Wingspan or, you know, Ark Nova, whatever your games are you want to play.
Tom VaselHOST
You know, if that's the point, honestly, who you invite over is going to matter in that situation.
Julie AhernHOST
It does.
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Tom VaselHOST
Okay.
Tom VaselHOST
Well, I mean, sometimes you just have one table.
Tom VaselHOST
And I found that it's usually best, again, to set expectations like, hey, if you're the host, I would like to play Ark Nova tonight.
Tom VaselHOST
And so I'm going to set it up.
TonyHOST
Well, this is not going to be a hard choice for me.
TonyHOST
So, yeah, I think that's like Ark Nova or like Terra Mystica.
TonyHOST
Card draw does play out on how you may do your game and also the luck in the game, especially with 240 plus cards or however many are in this game.
MartyHOST
Yeah, and so I'd mentioned, I think the people that will like this game like what you get to do in games like Ark Nova, except this game is much shorter.
MartyHOST
Personally, for me, I wasn't a big fan of Ark Nova or Earth.
MartyHOST
I think Earth is another example where you had all these different cards.
MartyHOST
And even in that game, it's like, well, crap, Tony got that card.
MartyHOST
And I never understood the reason for that.
JerryHOST
And there's been so many different iterations of it.
JerryHOST
I mean, I even disliked Ark Nova that to me was just a longer type version of the game, but yeah.
JerryHOST
Yeah.
JerryHOST
That Terraforming Mars is one that to me, I've never understood the hype behind it.
AJ BrandenHOST
[laughs] Sure.
AJ BrandenHOST
Uh, Ark Nova was it for me.
AJ BrandenHOST
Uh, Ark Nova, I respect the hell out of that game.
AJ BrandenHOST
I ...
AJ BrandenHOST
It is, you know, doing a lot of things that I hate.
AJ BrandenHOST
... like, pretty streamlined
Peter C. HaywardHOST
...
Peter C. HaywardHOST
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