Kanagawa Board Game by IELLO for Strategy and Fun

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1. Steffie Verified Buyer – 7 May 2024

   Dommage qu ils n’envoient que la version anglaise
   

2. Grumpy Ghost Verified Buyer – 24 July 2024

   A beautiful, simple-yet-deep engine-building game. It is a relaxing and peaceful game where you play as an artist creating a tapestry. Works well with two players.
   

3. Anonymous Verified Buyer – 9 August 2024

   Got it today and already played it six times! If you got Tokaido and really wanted to like it but found it too slow, this one might be for you. The mechanics are quite different, but a strong similarity to me is that in both games you are offered multiple goals you could easily pursue, but you can only pursue a few of them well — and other players’ choices will keep you guessing.

   + Pros: Relaxed but interesting to play. Good choices each turn, but not enough for analysis paralysis, and a good dose of random luck. This is a nice game to play several times in one evening and give everyone a chance to win, as opposed to investing 2 hours in a bigger game. As two players we’re done in 30 minutes max.

   – Cons: The rules are poorly sequenced; things that belong together, aren’t, so you have to read it all the way through before you understand how things relate. However, after that, it’s an easy game to teach, or learn from someone who’s played.
   

4. Georgia de B. Verified Buyer – 8 October 2024

   Pros:
   This game is great to casual board gamers who want something beautiful to play. The pieces, cards, and boards are all gorgeous and it is lovely to look at. It is quite a slow paced game where you are not really interacting too much with other players, so if you don’t like being ganged up on it is brilliant. It is very calming and enjoyable for a couple of rounds.

   Cons:
   I could see some more competitive board gamers getting a little board of this game after awhile. It is not very competitive, and you are focusing on what you are doing and not what others are doing. People who like more cooperative or attack/defense style games would probably only want to play a few rounds.
   

5. 4.5 out of 5 stars Verified Buyer – 22 October 2024

   I’m guilty of buying games because of absolutely stunning box art, theme, and less frequently because I thoroughly studied a game and know I want to play it. Kanagawa is an absolute perfect addition to my game library; it is one my favorite games to store vertically with the box cover facing out for display. The theme is so richly developed in this game through the art and mechanisms of painting beautiful portraits and training your skills as a painter that I’m left always wanting to play this more as it just brings joy to the table. For those who want to study the game for what it is, barring all the beauty, you end up with a game of set collection, card drafting, pattern placement of cards, and some abilities to gain semi specialized powers unique to your painter’s studio. It’s quite the combination of game mechanisms but they work beautifully in what is a perfectly simple game that you can’t help playing again and again. I often do reviews on two perspectives, the first being my own and the second coming from my wife and her thoughts. For me I enjoy the pace of the game, it is quick to play but has wonderful timing elements of when you decide to collect a hand of cards and add them to your tableau that provides a degree of strategy that works really well for me. My wife, wow, she just loves everything, the beautiful cards, the bamboo player mat, the superb painter’s pot playing pieces. She finds the push your luck aspect of the game one of her favorite things, as you play cards each round some are hidden and you only know their type by seeing the back of the cards, taking a gamble to get more cards but not always knowing what you may end up with is what she says is the most fun for her. I might mention she also really loves the fact that she consistently beats me at this game, she is quick to make important choices that let her get first access to the game’s diplomas, which are the primary scoring method, and is quick to note which ones I may or may not have access to and she aims for those first. Kanagawa is great that even with the luck factor involved you can tailor how you play, you can get a bit offensive and watch your opponents closely to beat them to the high scoring diplomas, or you can like me just get lost in this peaceful work of painting remarkable Japanese landscapes. It’s possible I get drawn in too much by the simple fun of this game and don’t care if I win or lose, I just enjoy playing it, and for me that’s just fine, I love this game just for its visual presence alone. Oh and be sure to make a space on your shelf so you can face the box forward, you’ll thank me for that!

   

6. David S. Floyd Verified Buyer – 17 January 2025

   We bought this game after our friends came to visit. I’m not going to lie. They described it as a “Painting Game” and I was like “Huh? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot”??

   However, they were visiting with us for 2 days and we probably played this game a dozen times! Once you understand the rules and what the objective of it is then it is easy to follow.

   Every piece of this game feels like an aspect of art and ties into the theme beautifully.
   

7. Edoardo Spano Verified Buyer – 27 January 2025

   Gioco molto bello e facile da spiegare. Ci possono giocare tutti, anche i neofiti, ma riesce comunque ad avere una buona profondità di gioco. Il colpo d’occhio dopo qualche turno è interessante e da una buona sensazione di star creando un dipinto.
   

8. Maria G. Verified Buyer – 4 March 2025

   One of our favorite games.
   

9. Eddy Manzarek Verified Buyer – 24 April 2025

   Es un buen juego, que al ser de temática de pintores, tiene un arte muy cool, quizá lo único malo es la fragilidad de las cartas, tendré que conseguir micas, para su buen cuidado.