I absolutely adore stumbling into a creator who genuinely loves the topic they’ve chosen to discuss. No phony accent, no cartoony editing, just an avalanche of love for the thing. This video made my day. I hope my kids get this excited about frost when it shows up :)

Just stumbled in while surfing for frosthaven content. So glad I did. What I enjoyed as much as how thorough and incisive your review was, it was how chilled and easy to watch it was. It was refreshing not to be yelled at while keeping up with quick edits. Exceptional.

I've never heard of you before today, but I appreciate everything about this review! Thanks for giving us your thoughts so eloquently

Best review I've watched on Frosthaven! Great work!! Thank you😁

This box has just arrived after being on order for ~2 years. Coming from Gloomhaven which we have not finished yet. We make all the scenery and 3D print the monsters - going to be so much fun to move into Fosthaven learning the rules, choosing and painting the characters.

You're one of the first (maybe THE FIRST?) to go so deeply into the game and post about it. Good job - thank you. Makes me look forward to the experience.

This was a very good video. I just got a brand new copy of the game with the stickers, solo scenarios, token and the Frosthaven card sleeves in a bundle from a local store. Can't wait to bust it out.

What an incredibly good explanation, well-expressed review and smart speech. This channel is way more meaningful to me than others to really understand games; mechanics, particularities and overall how games feel when played.

OMG you finished 30…so excited to get my copy. Waiting patiently

Thank you for sharing your experience with the game. I actually searched for “what does frosthaven feel like” and yours was one of the videos. It’s cool that you share your passion and enthusiasm for it. Cheers! 🙂

Excellent review! The Fist class was my absolute favorite during testing. I even wrote a guide on him. :)

So happy I discovered your channel, with the video about you keeping only 15 games. Just a bit sad I didn't discover you earlier and hoping that you will keep doing videos. I will definitely go back and see many of the ones you published before. I love your style and I'm crazy about how much love/feelings you put into your presentation. You genuinely love board games! Or you are an mazing actress and I fell into your trap. And this is part of how I created my main board gaming group. With that said, about Frosthaven, I'm so happy you like it so much. Gloomhaven is one of my favorite game of all time. We started before the pandemic and after 2 years and only completing 27 scenarios... My group decide they had enough. I reset my campaign and assemble a new group. We started with JOTL, it took us 18 months to finish, barely playing more than once every 2 months... We decided Gloomhaven was too ambitious. But I haven't given up, and I'm creating a new adventuring group, actually 2. Starting with less complex/demanding adventure games and so far so good. The goal is to play Gloomhaven with one of them. I also managed to get an unplayed copy of Frosthaven at a very good price. Anyway, just wanted to let you know you gain a new subscriber and I'm looking forward to enjoy your past and future videos!

I love every single bit of that game. Scenarios are so diverse. I love the Outpostphase. I love the variance in loot. The extremely different playable characters

The Hunters AD 2114 is another game where they have a great sense of timing for events. You can pursue side quests, but the main quest is still happening apace while you're digressing. It's one of the favorite parts of that game for me so looking forward to that kind of thing here.

Loved your adorable video. I just unpacked my copy of Frosthaven a couple of days ago, and I can't wait to start. My group completed the Gloomhaven and Forgotten Circles campaigns, and we are about halfway through Crimson Scales, which has exceeded my expectations. Love, love, love these games. I'm amazed at how well they scale to the number of players, and having a great choice of builds for each character has made it tough to retire many of the ones I've grown attached to. This is easily one of my all time favorite games.

I'd love to see you lead this with your friends on NRB. I'm glad I found your own channel too. Your passion for what interests you and what you find fun will naturally grow the channel. Keep it up!

Great review! Snarky Puppy is awesome 🤘🤘

Hi Carley! This review/update/impression of FH is EXACTLY what i was looking for. Thanks so much!

Great review of Frosthaven, your love of the series and in particular this one clearly shines through in such a refreshing way ..... plus I found a new band as well ;) Really wish my copy would hurry up and arrive!

just started watching and immediately love your energy! instant sub!

This video was so great, thank you! We have played JOTL as a family for the last year. Me and our 3 kids - 2 girls, one almost 15 now and one 13, and our son, 9). We have LOVED JOTL so much and have had weeks where we've played 20 hours of it. haha. No joke! Anyway, following the suggestion of Celophair games themselves we are not going to wait on GH 2.0 but are instead going to move on to Frosthaven (probably in December honestly because we have more JOTL the finish up.) But, I've been binging everything I can on FH and the starting classes - I skipped your spoiler bit... sadly... I wanted to keep watching. Right now, even before we have the game, our oldest daughter is thinking of playing Blink Blade. She played Hatchet in JOTL. Our 2nd daughter is thinking of playing Banner Spear. She played Voidwarden in JOTL. Our son wants Drifter, or Geminate. haha I'm advising him to take Drifter because he hates being damaged or having a "plan" ruined for any reason and so I'm sure Geminate would frustrate him. He played Red Guard in JOTL. I played Demolitionist in JOTL and am thinking of either Deathwalker or Boneshaper for FH. MAYBE, MAAYYYYBEEEE Geminate. I think I could play that one. I really like the dark mechanic of Deathwalker. But I'm still deciding and will, honestly, probably let the kids tell me which to do. haha Anyway, thank you so much for taking the time to make this! It was absolutely wonderful! ❤

Very cool. Quite jealous you guys have had yours so long. Our party is still awaiting a tracking number from the kickstarter. The wait is rough.

Awesome review,all the info to answer questions everyone is thinking of asking. 30 scenarios in a month wow

*still waiting for my copy in NZ* Love your appearances on BGC's Blood on the clock tower

As I await my copy here, this so far is the best review I've seen for Frosthaven. :)

Great review: very clear explanation, and your enthusiasm comes across strongly. Looking forward to Frosthaven arriving. I really need to get Gloomhaven played first...

Thank you Carley to share your experience so far. In our home town, Barcelona, we are extremly anxious to get the game in spanish. Have a good campain! :)

Loved Gloomhaven - played it with my wife, 2 young sons and my niece for a whole year and never got boring. Frosthaven really fixes a lot of my issues with it so really looking forward to playing when we are done Oathsworn.

Great video! My wife and I chose the other path for the unlocked class you are playing. Needless to say, that was a good unlock as well. Also.. thanks for the Snarky Puppy shout out. I’m a huge jam band fan: Phish, Umphreys, Dead, DMB and somehow… these guys I’d never heard of. So far, so good.

About to start jaws of the lion, but had to find out what Frosthaven was all about. Laughed at your love of the pets and your overall personality made it v entertaining. Absolutely great video! Also, Snarky is the best! 🤟

Great review. I would love to see more of the board and game pieces next time, maybe even some shots mid game. Just an idea, thanks again!

Bless your dedication. Played the tabletop campaign and some one-offs; also own the digital and one expansion. It fewls like half of what you did, but now I wonder.

As a forever DM that has been desperate to find a board game that captures the dnd feel AND I can be a player, this seems perfect lol thank you

gut yontif Carly! great video i enjoyed hearing more about the game after a fair amount of play love you on NRB and love you on here. have a good holiday

This could very well be the game I play the most of in 2023 .... thanks for sharing and keeping spoilers to specific sections 🥰

The best part of this video for me was the Snarky Puppy shout out! Thanks for giving me new earworms!

Great video. Found you on the BOTC videos for NRB. Loved your confidence and deductive reasoning. Keep up the great videos!

Really good review! I was on the fence about this game but your review really makes me wanna get it for my birthday. Cheers!

I’ve been watching you on NRB for months and I’m just now learning you have your OWN CHANNEL??? This is a good day

Wow, I love that immersion on one game, that corner awesome

Great review. Very engaging and has me even more excited to play it now. Probably not going to be delivered until mid-late January though at best here in the UK

Best frosthaven video I've seen so far. We loved gloomhaven. We are waiting for the German Frosthaven version wich will be released late 2023:( looking forward for more frosthaven content from you :)

Thanks for the video! As a big Gloomhaven fan this definitely made me excited to get the game :)

You look happier! Loved the NRB games. 👍

"I'm not a summoner player". Gets obsessed with taming pets. 😁 (Maybe pets work differently. I don't know.) Nice review. I usually skip through reviews this long, but I watched the whole thing. Nicely done! Happy Chanukah!

Lovely video - inspired I too created a Frosty corner! I kind of feel like the importance of retiring characters in Frosthaven (and in Gloomhaven) was not emphasized enough in the rules. Please put another video together of your next 30 scenarios!

Wow. 30 scenarios in 30 days! I'm jealous! :)

Thanks for sharing your experience with Frosthaven! I just started Descent: Legends of the Dark. Frost sounds really cool. I’ll try that next!

ANOTHER FROSTHAVEN FANGIRL! Glad you gave it the attention it deserves!

You LOVE Frosthaven and gaming. It absolutely shows.

I've never understood D&D, and never heard of either of those games. However, I went to College to become a 3D game designer. Long story short, 10 years later. I've started getting into TCGs and Board Games. I have used the new AI tools to come up with suggestions and stuff. Now, we come to the point of this comment. A few days ago, I was thinking about designing a D&D kind of Book Game, and I was not sure how to do it. Just listening to your amazing passion, gave me a new perspective, my creative problem solving brain have started working. So I gained a lot of inspiration from this video, and this seems like an awesome game. KZfaq suggested your channel out of the blue, but now I'm a subscriber 🧙🏼‍♂️

Snarky Puppy are so good!! And pretty solid background music for board games!

Okay, when I move house I definitely need to have "Corner for Haven-related stuff" as part of the requirements. That area is so cute and I need one in my life.

When can we expect the final review video?

MID NOVEMBER!?!?! Lucky you! I just got tracking for mine today.

Ok your hired as our net carrier! 😂 we have 6 left to turn the page

This was a brilliant review. Too often in board gaming reviews are just first impressions and are almost ads. This was really well written and explained and from someone that has clearly played a lot of it and knows what they are talking about. I’m impressed.

Skipped on this since I kinda had enough of Gloomhaven towards the end of my campaign. I really do appreciate what it did for the hobby and it's genre, but I also think it got a whole bunch of weakpoints and is highly overrated nowadays. Seeing how glorious it looks, how much improvements have been made and thinking I could've backed it for 100 $ when now it's MSRP is an absolutely insane 399 €, gotta admit, I kinda regret not going for it. The core of the system was also rock-solid and really fun. With your enthusiasm that you can really feel in this review, it only makes me want this more! :D Great review, really making the viewer get the love you have for the system without being just gushing, but still being thoughtful on a mechanical level. Will look out for more from this channel! :)

Do you think it'd be okay to go from Jaws of the Lion to Frothaven? It sounds like a much friendlier experience.

Wow I fell in love. And not only with Frosthaven.

I definitely like scenarios where the objective is not "Kill all monsters" makes for a more interesting puzzle. However, I would agree that the cards were, in general, made for the "kill all monsters" type of scenarios. Having a mix of both is perfect for me. Glad to hear that frosthaven has both.

Excellent review! Thank you.

Nice summary. Very jealous. My friend's copy has not arrived yet in California.

I’ll be honest, I clicked because of the thumbnail but stayed for the content 😊! Your enthusiasm for Frosthaven shines through and makes for an entertaining vid. I’m bummed that I didn’t back it though 😢

Can't wait to get my copy!

My goodness you shine on camera. First time finding your channel (big Gloomhaven fan) and love your review here.

You need to post videos wayyy more. Love your vids!

Love to get my copy in the mail. Still waiting.

the fact you havent given up after 30 plays says a lot about the game even without the rest of the review

God this is SUCH a good video!! Well thought out and knowledgeable! Why can’t I find other girls who like board games like you to play with??? My girlfriends and I play like on e every two months and none of them like the games I like lol (like gloom/frosthaven!). Ugh please keep up the good work!!

Great review for a truly amazing game

I would love to know more about *SPOILER* the Gentle Yeti with small hands and the compulsion of petting monsters. Looking forward to your Little Hanukkah Thing 😊

I was wondering if the NRB crew would ever delve into a Gloomhaven or Frosthaven series but I am understanding of the fact that it's a 'bit' heavy, so seeing Carley pop up with this review on my recommended was a fucking great surprise.

As someone who has played Gloomhaven, but never started a legit campaign, would you recommend Gloomhaven, JotL, or Frosthaven as the most entertaining?

Great review, really nice frosthaven corner! Was that darkest dungeon on the top shelf?Would like to see you review that one as well.Happy gaming!

You are lucky to have the game at this time. Still waiting for my copy from Kickstarter.

Great video until min17 (where I quit watching to avoid spoilers^^). Always love thoughts on a game after many many hours in

oh no... I listened a little bit to the spoiler section and it got me too hyped. I might return to this video later to just indulge in one spoiler xD Also how in the world does one manage to play every single day, im jealous ;-;

Does one need to play GloomHaven before diving into FrostHaven? So intrigued by both of them. Great video!🤘🏼🤓

Is there a new "helper" app to make things easier during combat and whatnot?

Great review!

A fellow Snarky Puppy lover!!

Good video and good info. You may need to look into something to change in your space or mic as there is some decent echo.

I'm still waiting on my copy and since I haven't finished big momma GH yet I'm mostly just excited to have FH... and try to find a place to shelve it... "chose a top action and a bottom action" *sapphic longing intensifies*

Played about 15 scenarios of Gloomhaven on the PC and I was surprised by how good and faithful of an adaptation it is from the board game. Sadly the person I was playing with wasn't a fan so it ended there (feel free to message me if anyone wants to do an entire campaign run through!). I'm sure they'll do an equally good job with Frosthaven when they convert it to a PC game and I honestly may skip buying the board game with how good the Gloomhaven port was.

I decided to buy Jaws of the Lion because of this review. My brother-in-law are excited to give the game a try!

Great video - Thank you from Germany!

FH is so big as yours! i am sure that will be my favorite game. thanks😘

*Cries in being in Australia, and still waiting for my KS copy…*

Will you be doing your own version of board game club? Would like another fun channel like no rolls barred to watch

You should check out Crimson Scales. Its fantastic!

Ok, I just subbed and I'm not even sure why. I like the few board games I've played but the way you convey your love for the games just makes me wanna watch. Now, I have a question (a tough one i think). What game would you recommend for someone who's new-ish to board games but I need value. Value meaning cost vs content and replay-ability. I also need one that's relatively easy to learn bc I will have to somehow convince my non-gamer wife to play with me bc I don't have anyone else to play with.... maybe my 12 year old, we'll see. Anyway, good amount of game for the money and that's also a good "gateway" board game into the world of board games. Sorry, if it felt like I was rambling... i work night shift and I'm typing this in the middle of the night. Anyway, thanks in advance. - WY

I am jealous that you finished 3 Gloomhaven scenarios. I have 4 started, and no end in sight as getting everyone together is difficult. The way you speak of Frosthaven makes me perfectly happy to just jump right in without finishing Gloomhaven. Curious, I must have missed this info, but what player count is your current campaign? All 4 of mine in Gloomhaven are 3 or 4 players, and therein lies the problem with availability.

So I'm at the end of buying either Frosthaven or Fateforge. Did you do a review of Fateforge I can compare to this?

Hello! Thanks for the review. Just a quick question: Which size is your group? Thanks a lot and I hope you keep enjoying the game for however long it lasts!

Do I spy Darkest Dungeon there at the end? So jealous, still waiting for mine to show up!

HEY! You have Shogun! Nice! Then you must try YEDO and Ninjato!

I think I’ve found my new favorite board game commentator….. and I’m 😍

Could never get into it guess I’m not part of the Borg. Really love Isofarian Guard much more immersive and exciting.

As someone who has played a couple of scenarios in frosthaven and gone through 1 set of retirements, I really wish the spoiler sections had used icons and building numbers and such, since I would like to watch if I have unlocked the same things but wouldn't want to watch if I don't have those things unlocked yet. So if you used numbers for the buildings it would be much easier to figure out if I would spoil myself if I keep watching.