In Sunflower Valley, you draw your own mountain valley based on the tactical use of a shared pool of dice. Spread your villages throughout the valley and connect them with railways to earn points. Meanwhile, gain extra rewards for cheering up your villagers by cleverly planting sunflowers around the mountains. Remember that your villagers need enough sheep, too! And there are other players out there competing for the most valuable dice, so grab a pen and start drawing your valley in this creative strategy game!
Sunflower Valley is a creative pen-and-paper world-building game. Score points by drawing icons in the colored regions on your drawing map by cleverly using the dice. The game ends when no free spots remain on any player's drawing map. The player with the highest score at the end of the game wins!
- Draw your own picturesque landscape
- Spread villages and connect them with railways
- Earn extra awards for cheering up villages by planting sunflowers
- Other players are competing for the most valuable dice.
- Drawing a picturesque landscape, planting sunflowers, and connecting villages with railways.
- Valley
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Players compete for the most valuable dice.
- city building — Spreading villages throughout the valley and connecting them with railways.
- Dice Rolling — Gameplay is driven by a shared pool of dice.
- Tile Placement — Players draw their own picturesque landscape.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- in this episode we're going to cover 10 games that caught our eye over the past month both new and old that we wanted to make sure didn't go overlooked
- welcome to the 10 games we couldn't overlook this month
- why dig through a mountain of rock and dirt for riches when you could just find them randomly scattered throughout the jungle
- maybe don't move to a town called wintertown it sounds awful like a endless vast white nothingness where the sun never rises or never sets or whichever way that works
- cosmic frog is a game of collection combat and theft on a planetary scale
- speechless meeples would make a great name for a ban
- this is our list of games we wanted to make sure did not go overlooked this month thanks for watching until next time i've been matthew jude take care