Tend
A tactile space-farming flip-and-write where you scratch, stamp, and strategize your way to the best alien homestead—think Stardew Valley meets bingo cards.
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Tend is a 2025 board game for 1 to 6 players, ages 14 and up. A typical game runs 60 to 90 minutes and plays at medium-heavy complexity. It was designed by Austin Harrison, Max Anderson, Toby Sarnelle, and others and published by IV Studio.
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In Tend, players assume the role of pioneers working for the Zenith corporation to establish homesteads on a new alien world. Each player builds their own farm, collects goods, and sends them back to Zenith HQ for study. The game utilizes a shared deck of action cards, with new cards added as the game progresses, altering available actions. Victory points are earned by collecting badges, completing seasonal objectives, being the best neighbor, and filling the Cargo Manifest with goods. The player with the most victory points at the end wins.
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Podcast · The Game Table Podcast
TEND – A Featured Table Review
Ian and Jared sit down at the Featured Table of The Game Table Podcast to discuss the massive Flip n Write exploration farming game, TEND, from IV Studios Links for TEND Pu…
