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Verdant is a gorgeous spatial puzzle game for the whole family. Take on the role of a houseplant enthusiast – collecting and caring for plants as you compete to create the coziest, most verdant home! Turns are simple – select a card/token set and place each into your expanding home. Earn points by providing plants with the lighting conditions they desire, coordinating your interior space with furniture and pets, and racing against your opponents to pot plants and earn bonuses. With variable scoring goals, each game of Verdant brings a new spatial puzzle to your table!
| Weight | 2.2 kg |
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| Dimensions | 9.4 × 9.4 × 2.7 cm |
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NotAnInventiveName –
I played this with my adult niece. This was a really nice competitive play that was less hack-and-slash or juvenile humor. Looking forward to playing this with my mother who enjoys gardening and board games.
Petersen –
We love this game, easy to learn, fun and we are learning a lot about plants. We also bought another as a gift since we enjoy it so much!
Galina –
Easy to learn,very cozy game,can even take it with you if traveling(organizer will help with that).1 to 5 people. About 30 min.
Julianne Pepetone –
It has linear thinking and bright, visually pleasing game pieces. It’s competitive and FUN!
Poiuytrew.q –
This is my review after 20 solo plays. I imagine that the game is mostly the same as a multiplayer game with a few exceptions I will mention below. This game is published by Flatout Games and has a number of designers. Think of a publisher as a producer and designers as directors for movies. Other notable games by Flatout Games include Calico (2020) and Cascadia (2021). One of the other designers worked on Calico so it is not hard to see the similarities between the games.Independent of the other games, Verdant is puzzley game – you must build out a 3 by 5 checker board of plant and room cards, but you can only place a card adjacent to a previously placed card. Meanwhile, you also acquire an item each turn to decorate your rooms with, like a cockatiel or a blue arm chair OR an item like a watering pail to help grow your plants. Players are rewarded for watering their plants and placing plants next to rooms with the perfect lighting conditions. The player who does it best wins.The rulebook I think is not as clear regarding the green thumbs and it might be good to review the Overview or a video tutorial.There are a few differences between solo and multiplayer. First, in a multiplayer game, after taking your turn, there are 1-4 other players who will go after you. Since there are only 4 options available at one time it is possible that by the time it is your turn again, the options may have all changed and you have to reassess which card/item combination is best for you. This can lead to a loooonnnng if players are carefully considering which combination to select. Even if they aren’t, they would need to consider all the new options which still takes up time. I experienced this in a 4-player game of Canvas and personally I don’t enjoy it. It is mentally exhausting to have to reexamine the options. Maybe it’s fun for others, because during other player turns, you’re hoping and praying that the other players won’t take the card/item you want.In a solo game, at the end of your turn, whatever is in the far-right column is discarded. This means you can better plan ahead for turns, but you also have to consider what is in the right column and select it before it is discarded. On the other hand, this makes the game more annoying to handle and makes me wish there was an app version, because at the end of your turn you have to move down a pot, a plant card, an item token, and a room card down three times, like an ancient version of a conveyor belt as in one without a belt.Compared to the other Flatout Games, I like Verdant more than Calico but less than Cascadia. All three games have 3-4 options you select from and the goal is to place your tile/card strategically to meet requirements and score points. Cascadia uses hexagon tiles so you have 6 different sides to consider instead of only 4 in Verdant.In Cascadia and Verdant, you have to place tiles/cards adjacent to other tiles but there is no restriction like in Verdant (3×5 tableau) or Calico (a predetermined board). I also prefer the Cascadia theme better, although Verdant is more thematic because each plant card in Verdant features a real houseplant (similar to Wingspan), the lighting requirements are more or less what they are in real life, and there is some text tidbits at the bottom giving some description of the plant and its scientific name.In the last turns of Verdant, similar to Calico, you only have a few spots left so there is less choice because the best option is more easily determined. Calico is also more restrictive because it doesn’t have a mechanism to refresh/replace cards or tokens. Both Cascadia and Verdant have a way for players to clear out the options in case none of them are to the player’s liking.All three games have main mechanisms of drafting and pattern placement. All three games have high replayability: they all have objectives to complete that vary per game w (Verdant has 30 bonus cards of which you use 3 per advanced game) and all three have special achievements you can mark off in the rulebook. All three have a solo mode and family variant so the game caters to a lot of different groups of people. Personally, I think Cascadia is the easiest to learn and teach. I like the freedom of the 6 sided tiles and the theme. Verdant is second best to me because it is more thematic and I have some of the plants featured and it plays to 5 players. Calico is the most restrictive and stressful for me to play.
David Hudson –
A great game for a pair or small group. This combines elements from flat out games first two, award-winning titles: calico and cascadia. Like those, this is an artistic, puzzly game with a cozy, peaceful theme. Their games are about making as many points as possible with a limited number of turns, making the most of the available options. They aren’t for fans of hyper competitive, race to beat the other players and shout “I win” kind of games.Verdant is both relaxing and mentally challenging, which is a good description of all flatout’s games. This isn’t nearly as complex as calico but is a bit more involved than cascadia. It’s simple enough for fairly casual gamers but might hit the sweet spot of those who want something more complex than the most common games (eg ticket to ride, catan, etc) but doesn’t require tons of playtime and can be learned relatively quickly. I would recommend watching a video play through just to get started quickly. It’s not hard to learn once you start playing as you only have a few options each turn. It just helps to see someone else take a few turns to get you going.
Kai Talifero –
This game is super fun. Highly recommend.
K. B. –
Unless you REALLY love houseplants this game is just ok. The artwork is nice (and I normally love this artist’s work) but, again, it’s houseplants. The colors for the planter pots and leaves blend into the background so visually it takes a bit to constantly calculate progress; brighter markers would have been better. I will give the designers credit for including a variety of skin tones. As for the game design, there are almost too many variables going on at once to really develop a strategy. We’ve played it several times and I feel like despite using different strategies we’ve ended up with roughly the same scores at the end of each game. Maybe because it’s too easy to make up points in other areas. The results feel less rewarding than say Wingspan, Meadow, or Cascadia where strategic shifts have a greater impact.
JMS –
This game is great to play with children of multiple ages and everyone playing learns more about plants!