Great little spacial puzzle game. Very pretty. My group play with a card offer of 3 each, rather than 2. It makes the card drafting feel a little less restricting and luck based.
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!
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 😊
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 !
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.
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.
Rating... Tin out of Ten
Great little spacial puzzle game. Very pretty.
My group play with a card offer of 3 each, rather than 2. It makes the card drafting feel a little less restricting and luck based.
Might pick this up for my friend who's a sucker for tin games.
Yep, Bombyx has really good tin games, such as this one and also Builders Middle Ages and Builders Antiquity.
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?
Cards cannot be placed rotated, not even at 180°.
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!
The theme is super easy to ignore...LOL
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?
My version came in a lovely small cardboard box. Yay!
Is there a solo variant per chance?
Yes
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 😊
Lovely review, Zee.
Wish this one was actually available
So it has no relation to Codex? Weird naming choice then
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.
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.
No longer comes in a tin box sadly. Still a great game worth buying.
Can you put cards vertically ?
No only horizontally
Now on BGA!
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.
I think I'd rather play "Nimalia", "Four Corners" or "Floriferous".
The card design is pretty, but... I'm not really feeling the game play.
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.
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 !
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.
Café (solo mode)
Crystallo
Sprawlopolis
It does have an official SOLO mode. Check their website... studiobombyx.com/en/jeu/codex-naturalis-2/
@@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.
How many players?
BGG says 2-4
The cards look pretty amazing, but it’s too bad they couldn’t have worked on the theme a bit.
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.
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