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Updated and streamlined for a new generation of players, Agricola, the award-winning and highly acclaimed game by Uwe Rosenberg, features a revised rulebook and gameplay, along with wood pieces and components for up to four players.
The 17th century was not an easy time to be a farmer. A game for 1-4 players ages 12 and up; play time is 30 minutes per player. Amazing replay value. The Agricola base game is a revised edition of Uwe Rosenberg’s celebrated classic. The game features improved all-wood components and a card selection from the base game as well as its expansions, revised and updated for this edition. Players begin the game with two family members and can grow their families over the course of the game. This allows them more actions but remember you have to grow more food to feed your family as it grows! Feeding your family is a special kind of challenge and players will plant grain and vegetables while supplementing their food supply with sheep, wild boar and cattle. Guide your family to wealth, health and prosperity and you will win the game.
- Revised edition improves card feel and balance
- Rich, satisfying combos with many pivot points
- Strong for long, strategic sessions
- Can be brutal and heavy, especially in two-player play
- Resource management and engine-building with card interactions
- Medieval farming life with evolving content through revisions
- Strategic planning with opportunities to pivot as cards interact
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card drafting — A wide array of cards enables varied engine-building strategies.
- Card drafting and comboing — A wide array of cards enables varied engine-building strategies.
- Resource management — Careful balance of wood, food, and other resources with improvements.
- Resource management and buildings — Careful balance of wood, food, and other resources with improvements.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- the changes are so good and the game just feels like this is the switch I really love
- there's nothing like this game
- The thematic experience it's able to deliver
- This is such a game that depends on going into it with the right expectations
References (from this video)
- Empty space at bottom for no reason
- Unpleasant orangey-yellow color at top
- Avatar on side of box, barely visible
- Woman blends into background
- Looks like farming through eyes of sheep
- Agricultural development
- Farm
- Pastoral
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- worker placement — Farming game
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- The box cover makes a promise to the customer
- Every box cover tells me what I'm going to be doing and how I'm going to be feeling
- This artist is one of the best board game artists working in the industry right now
- This is how you do it
- This cover is a mess
- Striking iconic design
- The box cover is not selling the game