{"id":21737,"date":"2026-10-09T15:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/mecanique\/non-classifiee\/tideward-connie-vogelmanns-next-game-sets-sail-with-sea-turtles\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T15:11:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:11:39","slug":"tideward-connie-vogelmanns-next-game-sets-sail-with-sea-turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/en\/news\/tideward-connie-vogelmanns-next-game-sets-sail-with-sea-turtles\/","title":{"rendered":"Tideward: Connie Vogelmann&#8217;s Next Game Sets Sail with Sea Turtles!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"p-rc_a1ff12bd8c52d071-106\" data-path-to-node=\"2\"><span data-path-to-node=\"2,0\">Following <i data-path-to-node=\"2,0\" data-index-in-node=\"10\">Wyrmspan<\/i> and <i data-path-to-node=\"2,0\" data-index-in-node=\"23\">Apiary<\/i>, designer Connie Vogelmann is back with <b data-path-to-node=\"2,0\" data-index-in-node=\"70\">Tideward<\/b>, a new title scheduled for release in 2027 by Avalon Hill<\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"2,2\">. Suitable for ages 10 and up, the game delivers a more family-friendly, smooth experience for 2 to 4 players, with 45-minute playthroughs and a light complexity rating of 2.00\/5<\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"2,4\">. In <i data-path-to-node=\"2,4\" data-index-in-node=\"5\">Tideward<\/i>, your mission is to hatch green sea turtle eggs and guide the hatchlings from the sandy shore to the open ocean, securing them safely within a floating algal mat<\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"2,6\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p-rc_a1ff12bd8c52d071-107\" data-path-to-node=\"3\"><span data-path-to-node=\"3,0\">On the gameplay side, players manage food tokens to hatch eggs and boost their turtles&#8217; movement speed<\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"3,2\">. Navigating safely means dodging predatory ghost crabs along the shoreline, all while leveraging a clever core mechanic: a circular tide board that rotates 90 degrees at the end of each round<\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"3,4\">! This tidal shift carries any turtles resting on it, allowing you to plan ahead and ride the currents deeper into the ocean<\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"3,6\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p-rc_a1ff12bd8c52d071-108\" data-path-to-node=\"4\"><span data-path-to-node=\"4,0\">The game end triggers as soon as one player successfully leads all their hatchlings into the water<\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"4,2\">. Final scores are determined by your turtles&#8217; layout on the algal mat and your secret Tide Quest objective cards<\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"4,4\">. With four different algal mats included in the box\u2014each with its own scoring rules and quest deck\u2014the game offers solid replayability<\/span><span data-path-to-node=\"4,6\">. A refreshing, tactical game to keep on your radar!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/image\/9848500\/tideward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/image\/9848500\/tideward<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Wyrmspan and Apiary, designer Connie Vogelmann is back with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[347],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21738,"href":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21737\/revisions\/21738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mr-boardgames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}