Tend (2025)

John LaRuffa highly recommends "Tend," calling it a super fun and engaging solo puzzle game that offers a great sandbox experience with exciting goals and clever mechanics like scratch-off cards, placing it among his top solo games.

The video reviews Tend, a board game where players manage crops and animals to fill a cargo manifest for victory points. The game offers high variability through action and season cards, providing diverse pathways to achieve objectives each play.

The Cardboard Herald delivers a review of the physical flip & write board game 'Tend', highlighting its engaging gameplay within the genre.

The reviewer highly praises the physical board game 'Tend', declaring it their absolute favorite from IV Studio. This video offers a strong, positive evaluation of the game.

This video provides an overview of the board game 'Tend', including gameplay explanation and a discussion of its solo and two-player modes. The reviewer offers positive final thoughts and highly recommends the game.

This video offers a genuine review of the physical board game Tend. The reviewer expresses significant enjoyment for this 'X and Write' game, praising its engaging gameplay and unique components.

This video features Tom, Chris, and Joey from The Dice Tower reviewing 'Tend', a 'flip and write' board game. Players build a homestead on an alien world, managing resources, completing objectives, and interacting with neighbors to earn victory points.

“If you want something with a bit more meat on the bones from the flip and write genre then Tend is a great step in the WRITE direction (I'm not apologising for that.) The theme will appeal to more of the community (gamers love farming right)”

Tend is a complex, deeply rewarding game that blends flip-and-write mechanics with dice rolling and resource management, offering high-strategy choices despite requiring players to balance focused goals with opportunistic adaptability.

“Minor complaint, though, because all the main actions you're doing are quite fun. So, overall, you might want to check out Tend if you like flip and write games, if you like Stardew Valley, Agricola, games where you're building up your farming empire.”(5:10)

“Suffice to say, I think it's pretty great. It definitely has a learning curve, but there is so much to do in the game, and you never feel like you have enough actions.”

Tend is an action selection, combo-driven flip-and-write game where players act as space farmers, offering an engaging gameplay experience.