Golem Board Game Review

[@MichaelGaskin]

The box cover of Golem looked oddly similar to my mother-in-law...

[@MadmanCZ]

😂😂😂

[@vlogospheer]

Ill never forget the time I was tricked into playing Golem based on how the box looked. BOY was I disappointed 🤯

[@ericengstrom2138]

That's the problem with Eurogames: there are very few themes that match the mechanics and the majority of said mechanics are the same thing...moving junk around to score crap. There are exceptions out there, but they are becoming more and more rare.

[@jackburtonstwin]

This is not an easy game to love. I confess I was starting to glaze over while you described the game play. I, too, love a good Euro but I agree that there needs to be new tings introduced or it is just too easy to compare new games to older titles with similar mechanisms. Heck, I still enjoy Tzolkin because it just nailed it all those years ago.

[@AllinWhenPlaying]

Dear me, that sweater is an absolute legendary gear right there. It almost bends time and space back to 1970. The review however, is not that bad ;) Saved me some money for sure.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

It’s an original 1993 Pringle Faldo mate…proper hardcore.

[@yourilicht631]

The stairs intro is back! Feeling nostalgic?

[@admscotty704]

I love the stairs and lightswitch!

[@TheAmazingMrGs]

For around $68 does seem like a game i would like play but getting used for around $30 is a little more acceptable to me. Either my azz does have the money for it yet. There is other Euro amd Amerittrash that got my eyes. Bloody hell wish i hade a girlfriend

[@mrbovinejoni569]

holy cow that analogy at the end lmfao🤣

[@BoardGameBollocks]

Seeing as you got the reference, which is your fave ? Chechik, Scat or Beastiality?

[@mrbovinejoni569]

@@BoardGameBollocks uhhh none of them?

[@BoardGameBollocks]

@mrbovinejoni569 🤔

[@mrbovinejoni569]

@@BoardGameBollocks 😳

[@helxis]

Worker place and engine building? Gee, never seen that before!

[@ragnabob]

Great video as always. Was really intrigued by this when it was announced, but scraping away all that delicious Golem make-up, came to the conclusion of it being a rather dry euro. So back on the 'to sell' pile with this one. Keep up the great work and don't stumble on those stair steps!

[@rolfvansoelen8916]

Nice and honest review, you saved me quite some money there. Golem is such a game that had my interest, but if it's mainly a rehash of thing you have seen before, i think I better skip this.That is not the game's fault, it is due to the fact that I just know a lot of games. This game, after being played, would go on the shelf again for 3 years I am afraid, with the notion of 'a good game, but not remarkable' or a similar feeling. I have come to the point that when I buy a game it should be quite unique, to avoid the 'been there, done that' syndrome. That is the plague of so many games nowadays.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

I’m going to play it a few more times and get rid.

[@benjaminl429]

I feel your pain. I keep promising to stay away from the latest take on old mechanics, yet here I am, running out of shelf space.

[@giacomomallamaci5649]

well a Euro is a Euro. Golem is a great game, if you liked (I know you haven't cause you said multiple times) Paladins of the west Kingdom, and Grand Austria Hotel, this is certainly your cup of tea. The problem of the "same mechanics" repeated over, depends by the amount of Euro games that are getting published every year, and that should make us reflect on how the industry is becoming unsustainable and companies shutting down. However I still consider Golem as an 8 for me (for reference my vote for Barrage is 9, for Grand Austria Hotel is 7, for Paladins is 7.5, Tiletum is 8, Nucleum 8.5), cause the theme is unique, the game, as i said is great, but I also am aware this is due to get lower as more Track based euros will be released. I will still suggest to give it a go if you like euros, cause its worth the experience

[@BoardGameBollocks]

I’ve played GAH and it’s great. You’re right though…we should expect a crash in the industry soon. Too many mediocre games being released these days. Golden age is over.

[@giacomomallamaci5649]

@@BoardGameBollocks I agree on GAH but I'd rather playing Golem tbh. De gustibus non est disputandum

[@michaelbrand1173]

You tak a lot of bollocks considering that sweater :D

[@BoardGameBollocks]

1993 Pringle Faldo…hardcore

[@petermillen6924]

Over the weeks and years you have served up many SLEUGS of immense crappiness but I think you have outdone yourself here. Playing this would represent cruel torture, cognitive assault and synaesthetic eyeball mauling. Yeah, yeah I will add the obligatory “if you like this sort of thing” but if you do I would be secretly suspecting you of being a badly disguised Vogon without the poetic talent. Only 500 or less to go, though for the 20K subs milestone.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

If you look closely this game is actually a series of 5 Jewish intergalactic highways…

[@hairydongle8054]

The marbles looked good.

[@relayer98]

you look angry like a😄 golem 🍉

[@TheGilzam]

Yea, disappointing that this super interesting theme is just another convoluted Euro. I hope you do a review of Evacuation and maybe that one will be different?? We can hope

[@BoardGameBollocks]

Premature evacuation as I don’t have it yet…

[@jean-paularends4535]

Loved the Adriana Chechik-remark! Ha! 😆

[@BoardGameBollocks]

Who? 😬

[@jean-paularends4535]

😉

[@kidmarine3994]

Nice jumper.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

Pringle Faldo 1993

[@marcojean6578]

The first few videos I watched on your channel, I failed to see the second degree and basically labeled you as a crazy madman (yeah I know these terms are redundant, but that’s how strong I felt!). I’ve seen the light since and appreciate your style a lot. I love channels like Gaming rules, but “we happen to ejaculate all over this dross from time to time”? I think I needed that this morning (having a laugh I mean, not the getting it all out part!) And I’m happy you didn’t completely trash a game I asked for Christmas! I still have a limited collection so I shouldn’t feel like it’s too much like what I already have.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

Glad you’ve been converted…also glad you didn’t have a wank while thinking of me 👍🏻

[@stevensum2011]

Did you get chance to review wood craft?

[@BoardGameBollocks]

No, but it’s in a bargain bin here so I may do

[@stevensum2011]

@@BoardGameBollocks keinda 31.00 pounds

[@adriang6259]

Okay, F#*k Golem then. Thanks for the heads up.👍

[@hanseathl]

Played it, consider it tedious and convoluted, will probably not touch it again. Not worth my time and bother

[@StarryVeck]

Stopped watching partway through. That rules description isn't something anyone wants to watch/listen to.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

Don’t watch it then…🤡

[@admscotty704]

Golem is literally just a poor interpretation of Grand Austria Hotel dice drafting. Its not worth the time of day.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

There’s no dice or drafting (save for the start tiles)

[@admscotty704]

@@BoardGameBollocks Yes of course there is no dice. But it is the same mechanism with replacement pieces. You do draft them, same as grand Austria Hotel. On your turn you draft 1 ball from the row and place it on your board. [GAH, Draft 1 of the available dice from the central board.] (this is open drafting) The Row the ball rolled into is equivalent to the action you perform [GAH - the value of the die 1-6 determines the action you take]. The number of times you can repeat the action is equivalent to the number of the same color balls in the row [GAH - equal to the number of dice with the same value as the one you drafted]. Literally same designer, same core mechanic reimplemented with new pieces.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

You don’t draft as everyone has access to all the balls. If you had say 4 balls and passed them on while receiving 4 balls then I’d agree but what you’re saying isn’t in the game.

[@admscotty704]

@@BoardGameBollocks You do know the difference between Closed Drafting and open drafting? What you are describing is closed drafting (similar to Magic the Gathering.) This is Open Drafting - All the balls in the center of the table - you pick one and remove it from the pool. The next person selects from what is left. Agricola (Worker placement) is Open Drafting.

[@BoardGameBollocks]

@admscotty704 Zzzzzzzzz

[@SinisterSmith]

Did you choose this game because of all the antisemitism shit that's going on right now?

[@BoardGameBollocks]

What antisemitism shit?

[@SinisterSmith]

People(in the UK) are tearing down pictures of missing Israels after the Hamas attack and in the U.S too, plus Jewish kids are being attacked on campus grounds in the US,

[@BoardGameBollocks]

@SinisterSmith No idea mate…not really interested tbh. what’s that got to do with board games anyway?

[@SinisterSmith]

@@BoardGameBollocks Never mind I read to much into things sometimes, anyway love your channel

[@admscotty704]

@@SinisterSmith half the crowd things Golem is anti-Semitic, half the crowd thinks it is pro-Semitic. You are better off to just ignore such drivel and play the games that make you happy.