Gods Love Dinosaurs - Playthrough & Review

[@BeforeYouPlay]

What is your favorite dinosaur-themed board game?

[@xandermichael78]

My two favourite Dino-games are Welcome to Dino World (for good strategy) and Draftosaurus (for light fun). I had Dinosaur Island, but seriously disliked it. Fortunately someone else owns it now and hopefully is loving it.

[@ObviouslyCrap]

Evolution Climate

[@KillJoy83]

This one, but it's the only one I've played. Tried it during Spiel.

[@deronfreudenthal5646]

Love Dinosaur Island. What’s yours?

[@marknadeski7485]

Dinosaur Island and Tiny Epic Dinosaurs. The latter has 75 little dino meeples in that box! Serious choking hazard for kids, but I guess Dinosaurs probably don't care about our children.

[@deronfreudenthal5646]

This is the best tutorial play-through and review I’ve seen on this game. Great job and thanks!

[@BeforeYouPlay]

Thanks for watching!

[@danielmcmillan7655]

Y’all literally have the only good rules explanation of this game on KZbin. Great content as always, keep it up!!

[@PandasaurusGames]

Thanks for playing, you two! Congrats on the win, Naveen!

[@BeforeYouPlay]

Thanks you all!

[@Ashwinz]

SPOILERS~~~!!!

[@lilianempls]

Discovered your channel not too long ago and am really enjoying catching up on your content. The review/analysis at the end is very helpful. Actually, loved the whole thing.Thanks for a fun and smart playthrough.

[@BeforeYouPlay]

Awesome, thank you for the support!

[@KanekHQ]

I'm planning to play this game for the first time today, this video helps a lot to understand rules and see them in actions. Thank you!

[@BeforeYouPlay]

Glad we could help! Hope you have a blast!!

[@bobnetherton4957]

The game looks cute and fun to play. It was completely off my radar until watching your play through. Thanks for sharing.

[@BeforeYouPlay]

Thanks for checking out the video!

[@akshayagarwala8991]

Thanks for putting this game on my radar, the system seems so unique.

[@BeforeYouPlay]

You're welcome!

[@aba824]

This game is so beautiful! Also gameplay looks really nice :) And great that Naveen starts to win on videos :D good balance in win/loss is needed ;)

[@BeforeYouPlay]

Thanks a ton, I really need to string these wins together haha!

[@lordlogre]

I haven't played very many dino-themed games, but I would say Dinosaur Island is my favorite so far. Thanks for the video on this one - I originally had no interest, but now I'm in the "If I can find it for a good deal I'll get it" camp.

[@BeforeYouPlay]

Monique has played Dinosaur Island, I (Naveen) still haven't tried it. We plan on doing a video for it in the near future :)

[@talkingtaco12]

Hey Monique and Naveen so I have seen a couple reviews of this game and I had no interest until I watched yalls video. Love yalls videos..

[@BeforeYouPlay]

Aw thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@luiscarlosqg]

They usually have that effect. It is such a joy to watch them play ❤️

[@kovray]

Ah, I love all the dinosaur meeples

[@BeforeYouPlay]

hah we do too!

[@adityarajivratnam6863]

Thank you for a great play-through and review. It seems to me like this game could be made more fun with more player interaction and better thematic connections (pink eagles in the time of dinos :)). But yes, it is a very different abstract strategy game, and I think it works best at 2p because the other player can plan ahead as you pointed out. Could you please consider more close-up shots of components (e.g. the animeeples) for later reviews? Thank you. :)

[@Kingjoffrey12]

Where can i get bowls like that for game pieces?

[@ninajiron5488]

Very good teach!

[@ClockworkIne]

I was thinking of getting this because we love Tiny Towns and this seemed to have a similar feel to it, as a light puzzly game. Do you feel like it compares, or is it too simple?

[@chayashida]

I was interested in this game and New York Zoo. Do you think they are similar at all? Or very different?

[@BeforeYouPlay]

It's weird, they are similar yet different. Of the 2 gotta go with NY Zoo.

[@bailey626]

We just got New York Zoo because of this channel. It's so much fun! Currently waiting for Gods Love Dinosaurs from Amazon.

[@chayashida]

@@bailey626 Would love to hear what you think after you play both.

[@aba824]

Does it have a solo mode?

[@BeforeYouPlay]

No, it does not =/

[@xandermichael78]

Never seen a rat meeple?!? Have you not played Everdell!?! It has rat meeples and it also has a single eagle big meeple!! (sorry for all the exclamation marks - Everdell is my favourite game) :P

[@BeforeYouPlay]

Ooooooh! LOL We played Everdell once ever, and it was fairly recently so I showed have remembered that. You're right!

[@lucasabreu342]

Play Maracaibo in hard mode, Please!!! love us!

[@BeforeYouPlay]

LOL hard mode! We'll take a look at it and see if we can do it on hard =)

[@GourmetBurrito]

I'm so conflicted. I want this game because I want to move a dino meeple around. But I don't know how I feel trying to end the game with all the animals dead to feed the dinos

[@cyrustheplayer]

i thought Dinos can only eat predators

[@felipeparrao3647]

Hive?

[@ObviouslyCrap]

This game has potential, but watching you play, it seems simplistic and silly to me. There is no interesting player interaction, the individual ecosystems bear no relationship to each other, the tile selection and placement have hardly any restrictions, and - this is where the theme simply does not work for me - there were no tigers or eagles or rats or rabbits in the Age of the Dinosaurs. If you are looking for a well-themed, intricate and brutal survival game for two to six players, try _Dominant Species_ (if you have two to four hours to invest).

[@BeforeYouPlay]

That's fair, we felt the game needed another element too. The fact you build and destroy so often can definitely leave things to be desired.

[@hummingbirdfeeder1]

Seems like you might like a heavier dinosaur game like dinogenics. This game is much lighter more along the lines of Azul or Sagrada. It really depends on if you like light puzzly abstract games which this would be, or a heavier worker placement strategy game like Dinogenics or Dinosaur Island. My game group likes the lighter puzzle games so this would be perfect for my group.

[@BeforeYouPlay]

@@hummingbirdfeeder1 You know, we've seen Dinogenics around but haven't had the chance to play it. We're planning on covering Dinosaur Island this month so that'll be fun, but we really do want to try Dinogenics!

[@morrismaow]

Wondering if u could join up worlds and then mess with each others prey and predators

[@TheBoardDad]

@@BeforeYouPlay HIGHLY recommend Dinogenics, plus its expansion. Was just able to snag a copy and it's very good. Look forward to a playthrough if you get around to it sometime. Love your dynamic and clear explanations.