The comlete collection is here
🌳🐾 Everdell: The Complete Collection has arrived. 🤩 This made me realize we never wrote about this game on our page yet 🙀 Even though it is one of our favorites.
Everdell looks charming with absolutely stunning art and cute animals. But don’t let the look fool you: these all hide a quite crunchy worker placement, resource-management and tableau building euro underneath. It is not too complex but it provides a nice decision space:
⚙️ You have quite a limited amount of workers so you have to think hard where to use them.
⚙️ The order in which you do things is also important.
⚙️ What cards you add to your tableau - it is limited to 15 spaces and you can’t really remove cards you placed. So too many early game resource generation cards could mean you don’t get many points for you city at the end. Too few and you can’t get those nice late game cards.
♻️ I love the replayability too. You get random worker placement spots placed and also random objectives to complete every game. There is also a huge deck of cards so your strategy will change from game to game. ☝️This leads to a divisive point: some people say there is too much randomness to card draw. I think you draw a ton of cards in a game so it’s okay and it’s your job to make the best use of them - just like in Terraforming Mars for example.
Playing with the expansions will of course also add to replayability - a LOT! 😁
🍂 As you run out of resources and workers to place the season will end - but only for you! I really love this because people can’t rush you out of your strategy, and you are free to play the previous season if you can eek out a few more actions.
A new season will have a special effect and also bring you new workers, so subsequent seasons will be longer. There are certain actions that will permanently lose you a worker so you have to be careful when you use those.
Even though you can’t rush others there is still plenty of player interaction by racing for the common objectives or using worker spot buildings of each other.
And what the new expansion Newleaf brings? Check back later for our thoughts on it😊
