CODEX Naturalis Review - with Zee Garcia

Zee takes a look at this small puzzle-like card game in which you must collect the right pages of the Codex to succeed!
0:00 - Intro
1:02 - Overview
6:57 - Final Thoughts
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[@GrayBeardDamonsen]

Rating... Tin out of Ten

[@boardgameknight2791]

Lovely review, Zee.

[@atomiccritter6492]

The theme is super easy to ignore...LOL

[@dangerousbeans2907]

My version came in a lovely small cardboard box. Yay!

[@soogymoogi]

Might pick this up for my friend who's a sucker for tin games.

[@fingersmaster]

Yep, Bombyx has really good tin games, such as this one and also Builders Middle Ages and Builders Antiquity.

[@dpearson588]

Wish this one was actually available

[@nanahuatli2144]

The downsides are all things I don't really think about much, and it's pretty, so it works for me. I don't think I can get in where I live, at least for now, but if I ever do it'll be a great one to play with my family or to kill time. Thanks for the review!

[@julieatkinson-bh7jt]

Thank you for review. After watching this i bought off Amazon this wk. Did come in a tin. Check out the new solo rules for this game. Plays very nice 😊

[@SebastianZarzycki]

Zee, you gave it an 8 out of 10, but your profile on BGG says 7 out of 10. Is that a typo, or have you revisited your opinion since then?

[@realyua]

are cards only played at their side with scoring points on their top? or can we rotate it with scoring points at bottom or vertically placed?

[@fingersmaster]

Cards cannot be placed rotated, not even at 180°.

[@dev.strato]

No longer comes in a tin box sadly. Still a great game worth buying.

[@Cemaran01]

Now if only you could buy this game in the USA. Seems like you can only buy it from Bombyx itself which is in Europe and then has a huge shipping cost.

[@fingersmaster]

Happens much more often the other way around ! I struggled like mad to obtain Shifting Stones (Gameswright) which was almost impossible to find in Europe for at least 2 years! Now that I bought it from the USA, it is available at Zatu ! Grrr !

[@andrewroy9528]

So it has no relation to Codex? Weird naming choice then

[@Confoundedjoe]

Yeah a card game called codex with multiple colors of cards. Seems like a bad choice of name. Like calling it Magic: Naturalis. Just cause you added a colon doesn't make it not sketchy.

[@andymurry2005]

Now on BGA!

[@fingersmaster]

Yep, I play it often with friends abroad, but I miss the beautiful score board. For a game that beautiful and visually original, they could have included it.

[@JoeyjojoShabadoo7]

Is there a solo variant per chance?

[@Poiuytrew.Q]

Yes

[@maximem.ste-marie3578]

Can you put cards vertically ?

[@dareckMJ]

No only horizontally

[@ryusuikarate]

Honestly: If this had a solo mode I would try it. I don't know but somehow playing the cards edge over edge for some symbols is a mechanic I would like to try. If anyone knows a game that includes this please let me know.

[@eduardomonteiro3397]

Café (solo mode)

[@peterk822]

Crystallo

[@RBproductionsss]

Sprawlopolis

[@ainarogel4116]

It does have an official SOLO mode. Check their website... studiobombyx.com/en/jeu/codex-naturalis-2/

[@ryusuikarate]

@@ainarogel4116 Thanks. It does seem to happen more and more often that a solo mode gets published at a later date if the game is successful enough.

[@jldo9529]

I appreciate your criticism. But I'm a bit disappointed that you didn't make a distinction according to the number of players. In my opinion, the 3 or 4 player version is worth at least the 8/10 you give it, but the 2 player version is not up to the level: the renewal of the cards is insufficient to allow the development of a strategy, this 2 player version does not deserve better than a 5/10.

[@CathyLarkinWebSavvyPR]

How many players?

[@FelipeRodrigues-vj1zb]

BGG says 2-4

[@tonycork2pa469]

I think I'd rather play "Nimalia", "Four Corners" or "Floriferous".

[@marfin4325]

The card design is pretty, but... I'm not really feeling the game play.

[@benjaminspears8488]

The cards look pretty amazing, but it’s too bad they couldn’t have worked on the theme a bit.

[@fingersmaster]

The theme seems to escape Zee. Maybe because it is a medieval one, so very much European. Players are Middle Ages illuminator copyist monks creating a Codex Naturalis, a hand-written description of nature. I think the theme works really well. If you like The Name of the Rose, you'll probably relate to it.

[@DoppelgangerF02]

Oooo

[@mardel5466]

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[@DoppelgangerF02]

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