Differences in the revised edition Īgricola: The Goodies set includes animal-shaped replacements for the basic coloured cubes The game offers a simplified 'family' variation for less involved players, in which occupation and minor improvement cards are not used. Numerous expansion decks have been released to fill in gaps in gameplay and add thematic settings. They can also get an initial direction for their strategy, based on the occupations and improvements they were dealt. Players get additional resources and various bonuses for playing these cards. To achieve variation between games, players are dealt a hand of optional cards – occupations and minor improvements.
The player with the most balanced and prosperous farm wins. Players are penalized for not focusing on any one aspect of the game, and stop scoring in any area they focus on too much. Scoring in Agricola rewards a middle of the road strategy. Īt the end of round 14 comes the final harvest after which victory points are counted. Players lose victory points if they have trouble feeding their family, which makes food production a major point of tension in the game. At each harvest, food is grown, people are fed, and animals multiply. The game is played in 14 rounds, divided by 6 harvests. Only one family member can occupy each action space within the same round, so players need to time their actions to get maximum profit while denying progress to the opponents. Each round, they take turns to place their family members on action spaces to get resources and improve and grow their households. Players start the game with a farming couple living in a two roomed hut. This is the original version with round resource counters. Ī two player version called Agricola: All Creatures Big & Small was released in 2012. As of September 2021, Agricola is ranked 34th among all board games on BoardGameGeek. It was also the game which ended Puerto Rico's run of more than five years as the highest-rated game on the board game website BoardGameGeek, staying at the top of the rankings between September 2008 and March 2010. Īgricola won the Spiel des Jahres special award for "Best complex game 2008" and the 2008 Deutscher Spiele Preis. A second edition of Agricola was published by Mayfair Games in May 2016. Playdek released an iOS conversion of the game in June 2013. The game was released in English by Z-Man Games in July 2008. The game was published by Lookout Games and released at Spiel 2007, where it was voted second-best game shown at the convention, according to the Fairplay in-show voting. After 14 rounds players calculate their score based on the size and prosperity of the household. In Agricola, players are farmers that sow, plow the fields, collect wood, build stables, buy animals, expand their farms and feed their families. It is a worker placement game with a focus on resource management. Economic management, Resource management, Strategic thoughtĪgricola is a Euro-style board game created by Uwe Rosenberg.
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