Leviathan Wilds BGG ↗

Leviathan Wilds · English edition, second printing · (2025)

Your rating: 5.0

My BGG Comment

I have never played Shadow of the Colossus, so no nostalgia here. 2026 After 5 plays: So many rave reviews can't be wrong? And they probably aren't. I think I am just sick of a certain type of cooperative game that is very ??? I can't quite put my finger on it but it feels very rote. There is a certain relationship here with the pandemic formula but it has iterated even more than Tesseract. The different map scenarios should be exciting. And I think I enjoyed this game right after I got it more than I do now that my crowdfunding excitement has died down. The thing that I am not enjoying is the mechanics not feeling like a game somehow. Just execution of commands. This is nothing at all like taking a turn in a game like Gloomhaven and it suffers from the same lack of excitement I feel on combat in Sleeping Gods. Definitely needs more plays to help me understand if this is a game for me. But I really don't want to right now. I can't quite say why except that this last play bored me out of my mind and consequently I lost. Rating: 5

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2026: Yashima's Game Diary
So many rave reviews can't be wrong? And they probably aren't. Or it is all nostalgia for Shadow of the Colossus, a computer game I have never played. I think I am just sick of a certain type of cooperative game that is very ??? I can't quite put my finger on it but it feels very rote. There is a certain relationship here with the pandemic formula but it has iterated even more than Tesseract. The different map scenarios should be exciting. And I think I enjoyed this game right after I got it more than I do now that my crowdfunding excitement has died down. The thing that I am not enjoying is the mechanics not feeling like a game somehow. Just execution of commands. This is nothing at all like taking a turn in a game like Gloomhaven and it suffers from the same lack of excitement I feel on combat in Sleeping Gods. Definitely needs more plays to help me understand if this is a game for me. But I really don't want to right now. I can't quite say why except that this last play bored me out of my mind and consequently I lost. * Player Count: 1 * My current rating: * Total Lifetime Plays: 5 * Rules Retention: Middling. Mostly I didn't remember setup. * Keeper: Undecided. * Recommended: Fans of the Pandemic formula but without the flow of the original * Competition: Pandemic Iberia, Hispania
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BGG Game Details

Year	2025
Designers	Justin Kemppainen
Artists	Samuel R. Shimota
Publishers	Frosted Games, Choo Choo Games, Salt & Pepper Games, HIT Games, Moon Crab Games, Bro
Players	1–4
Time	45–90 min
Status	Owned
BGG Rating	7.8
Categories	Card Game, Fantasy, Fighting, Adventure, Video Game Theme
Mechanics	Hand Management, Square Grid, Variable Player Powers, Action Points, Grid Movement, Grid Coverage, Cooperative Game, Events, Solo / Solitaire Game, Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game, Action / Event
BGG Rank	862
Complexity	2.47 / 5
Language	Extensive use of text - massive conversion needed to be playable

Extended Game Annotations

Segmentation	HMF
My category	Video Game Theme
My mechanic	Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game
My Genre	Cooperation
Theme	Epicurean

Play History

Date	Location	Duration	Qty	Players	Scores
2026-03-07 Details Variant 2: Sentinel	At home	–	1	Yashima	–
2025-08-31 Details Variant 4: Watcher	At home	–	1	Yashima (Hornet／Roughneck (Class)), Yashimii 🤖 (Yoink／Herald (Class))	–, –
2025-08-27 Details Variant 3: Storm Notes Casual	At home	–	1	Yashima (Hornet／Roughneck (Class)), Yashimii 🤖 (Yoink／Herald (Class))	–, –
2025-08-26 Details Variant 2: Sentinel Notes Casual	At home	–	1	Yashima (Kestrel／Mender (Class)), Yashimii 🤖 (Fix／Freeclimber (Class))	–, –
2025-08-26 Details Variant 1: Sage	At home	–	1	Yashima (Kestrel／Mender (Class)), Yashimii 🤖 (Fix／Freeclimber (Class))	–, –