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In this game of nature & nurture, make your house beautiful by caring for your very own collection of houseplants! In this easy-to-learn board game, collect your favorite plants and then try to feed them every round with the right combination of light, water, and plant food.
Planted features 42 varieties of popular and exotic houseplants, each with their own requirements to grow. Discover various planting tools and decorations to help you raise beautiful, thriving plants, and score bonus points. The player, or plant parent, that ends up scoring the most points from growing their plants is declared the game’s biggest green thumb - and winner!
Some features:
Easy to learn mechanics for all ages strategy
Collect resource tokens to care for your nursery (water drop, sun chip, plant food, etc.)
Features 42 popular and various plant varieties for all levels of plant parents including the fiddle leaf fig, philodendron, ZZ plant, monstera, croton, and more!
Created by famed game designer Phil Walker-Harding
—description from the publisher
- Houseplant theme is appealing and approachable
- High component and art quality
- Strong pedigree: Phil Walker Harding's prior titles
- Detailed mechanics are not fully explored in the video
- May be too light for seasoned gamers seeking depth
- Nature and nurturing growth
- Houseplants theme with a family-friendly vibe
- Warm, approachable, family-focused
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Family-weight engine/collection — Accessible mechanics designed to introduce new players to board games.
- Teachable rules with incremental learning — Designed to be easy to learn and teach, especially to newcomers.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Green Team Wins is a silly social party game for up to 12 players that's all about getting the most popular answer
- Wildstyle is a real time set collection game for 2-5 players where you'll be racing the other players to collect the right sets so that you can spray your tags all over the city
- I am a huge fan of everything sherlock and i love picture perfect so as soon as i saw this it was a no-brainer i definitely need to check this one out
- this concept just seems really crazy to me i don't even really know how it's gonna work out but i love games that try something completely new
- the houseplant theme can really draw people in and i definitely want to check this one out