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Together with your playthrough, yours is among the best coverage of this game I have seen yet: thanks so much for sharing!

You two are quickly becoming my favorite board gaming youtube channel. Excellent review from people who clearly really explored this game. My only question is, now that you are done reviewing it, do you see yourselves getting it off the shelves to just play for fun? How often do you think you will go back to it?

I have to say, as a play tester who is very familiar with this game I loved your play through. I normally can’t watch play through videos in general because there is so much down time and I get bored but I remember the night I was watching yours I was so engaged and on the edge of my seat. My boyfriend was laughing at how I was talking through your moves “ohhh... noooo she went there she needs to do this other thing first. Oh wait. She fixed it. Ok ok. Ohhhh is the timer going to be out before she gets there? Phew! Just in time.” He was cracking up and I turned to him and said - “Hey this is a real nail biter here!” Lol Great review. Thanks for your thoughts. So glad you like the game!

Pretty sure this is one of the best and most thorough review videos I have ever watched. Came across your play through video in the pendulum Facebook group and was an instant fan of your channel!

Its weird not commenting on the game itself but I just stumbled upon your channel and am loving it! Your positive vibes come right through the screen and I don't only want to know more about the game but you as reviewers too. Keep up the good work!

I continue to believe you guys are one of the best video creators in the hobby. Brilliant stuff.

Hi, I just discovered your channel and found your review to be very well made! This was my favourite one regarding Pendulum. You had good analysis on various aspects and I felt you were honest and not afraid to speak about the negatives. Well done, looking forward to your next reviews!

Looking like I am going to preorder this one. I will watch some more videos to get others thoughts, but appreciated this review and your playthrough. Keep up the good work!!

Great review! The way you describe this game reminds me of how I felt about Agricola. I found the game very tense and difficult at first, but as I kept playing I started falling in love with the challenge of it all. Thanks for sharing such an in-depth review!

I couldn't agree more with you both. I just played my first game of this yesterday with a family member. We both were thrilled by the experience of this fun, unique puzzle that we are going to try to solve again soon!

You are currently the best reviewers on KZfaq. I have been watching board game reviews for 10 years and you are the best. You just seem like professionals.

Excellent ! , you guys are my go to reviewers

Great review! I came here after hearing Monique on BGB!! Awesome content, subscribed!

Thanks for this video. Coupled with your play through, it gives a really good impression of how the game plays along with some things to consider about what groups it will and won't work well in. Real-time and simultaneous action games are usually tough because most people are just learning the game or only have one or two plays of it under their belt when I play them and often without one person who is a rules expert at the table, lots of mistakes can get made. In these type of games, there usually is no one watching to make sure everyone is doing things correctly and it's only later at the end you find out some were playing things wrong.

Great review! I've been on the edge about getting this game but I think this convinced me

Thanks for another great video, a very clear and thorough review.

Interesting and thorough review. Thanks. Can’t wait to play myself.

Love the video. Love ya both! Keep up the hard work/great content. I love this game if scares a lot of people in my community sadly but I'm like both of you I love it! So unique!!

Really enjoyed the review feel better about ordering now! I have not yet watched your play through but will do once the game arrives last this month. Thanks for your time.

Great review! Just as it relates to the point you guys made about your tokens sliding all around. I found that my tokens / player mat work just like Tapestry. The tokens have one side that gives more resistance and another side that is very slick. I personally like the slick side for easily sliding up the track, but I also understand why that would be undesirable. Try flipping that marker over on your board and see if you feel the same way. I have to believe it's a consistent thing because as I mentioned I had the same experience with the plastic tokens in Tapestry. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us on the game.

After watching your playthrough, and still after watching this review, I can't figure out what to expect from this game. It looks so wild and chaotic, but I'm excited and will definitely be ordering. It's Stonemeier. Come on. Thanks for the review. Looking forward to playing this one. My BF is AP master, so that will definitely be interesting.

I think I only discovered your channel about a month ago and now I can't get enough!! (Didn't know you were on Instagram either - you've got another follower!!) I love how clear you two are about your opinions and detailed the review is without overstaying its welcome! If only you lived nearby and we could game together! Grr! You're in the States, right? With Pendulum, I watched your play through and knew that I would like to play it, but I think I was watching trying to decide if it was a game to preorder and I decided that it wasn't because I think I'd have a great time playing it a few times, but because there's really no theme I don't feel like I would want to come back to it more than a dozen times. (Also I'm poor now thanks to COVID :P). Hopefully our library here in Helsinki will be smart enough to order a copy and I'll get a chance to play it and maybe be proved wrong.

hey there, quick question: have you had probelms with your green timer getting "stuck" ? :)

Thanks for the video

I've been looking forward to this review! Based on your thoughts I'm pretty sure I'll enjoy this game and really hope sometime I'll have the opportunity to play it before I decide to get it. Since Scythe is still occupying my interest for solo and the pandemic means I won't be playing this multiplayer, I'll be content to wait a little while, but I do look forward to eventually trying this out.

Very good review! I liked your perspectives on the gameplay. I got a good view of the flow of the game from you! you are right about the risk. it will divide gamers since there is not very many euro games that have a real-time component. you are right about having to try it to see if you like it this game is quite unique. I do like not having to wait for other players but miss seeing what my opponent is doing and devising a counter-strategy. Overall, keep up the good work!

Thanks for the great review. I hope I get to play it in my play groups sometime. Have you tried to the solo mode?

I'd love to see you do a "Ranking Stonemeier games" the way you did with Lacerda games.

Great review. Really appreciate your thoroughness and honest feedback in the review. What are your thoughts about how to balance experienced vs inexperienced players? I see this as a challenge and even the rules mention having an experienced player use the advanced worker placement variant. Have you tried this variant? Would this help balance things a bit? Thanks again.

One of my favorites

As stated in the review: definitely feels like this one is highly group dependent. I’m less worried about people accidentally or purposefully cheating and more concerned that my friends would get confused and not have a good time since I, as typically the host/teach, can’t help them through a turn as has happened with much simpler real time games for me in the past. Playing a few rounds without timers could help but feels much more like a gamer’s game that’s more focused on pushing the envelope rather than being a welcoming experience and I tend to gravitate towards the latter as I can get them to the table more easily.

I really like the freshness of this game’s worker placement mechanic! I feel like it’s going to be one of those games though that whoever you play it with in the beginning, will be the only people you ever get to play it with in the future; that introducing new people to it will put them at such a disadvantage compared to your trained awareness of the board. Granted, this is true of most strategy games. But most strategy games allow new players time to think on their turn.

Great review! Unfortunately, my wife and I will probably pass on this one. We'll certainly give it a go if a friend picks it up (thanks to your playthrough!), but games with time constraints tend to remove the aspect of leisure my wife and I enjoy when playing games together. Granted, that's the whole point of the timers in this game; you've gotta think on your feet and make good decisions in the windows of time you're given, but for us that removes the element of relaxation. I'm sure for others it will be a hit, though!

I wish Stonemaier went with double-sided recessed boards. Yes, it is possible (see Suburbia collector's edition)

Jamie has said that he regrets making real time the base game and without timers a variant. He should have done it the other way around.

How do you feel the timers compare to a game like Kitchen Rush or MD Rush?

Out of curiosity, have you played the Xcom board game? It also has a timed element and you do feel the pressure. Also because it’s a co-op and others are depending on you while the clock ticks :)

FYI. Underwater Cites has double sided recessed boards.

Underwater Cities has double-sided boards with cutouts on both sides.

Excellent review

This game is about a hundred bucks here, (in Perth WA) I've been watching your play through and saw it on sale at a different shop for twenty four. I took that as a sign and grabbed it. Dumb arse move?

Yeah I can see the game getting a weird response but it’s clearly an incredibly unique design. Worthy of lots of study and play.

I want to hear about game you dont like

a group of people playing on their own seems boring. it's definitely a no this time for this SM game