after playing Agricola for 30 days straight...
153Shelfside's Ashton gives some insights and takeaways from playing the Uwe Rosenberg's game, Agricola, solo online for 30 days straight. During the quarantine, Ashton decided that it would be the perfect time to play this farm-themed worker placement game, since he's never played this top board game geek classic ever before, but has played the counterpart Caverna multiple times. Typically, he plays on board game arena and TableTop simulator, but the game is free and scripted on multiple other websites, so he settled with the french website boitajeux. Day after day, he would log on and choose between the family or advanced modes, taking notes of his high scores. Slowly, he started to make comparisons to Trading Card Games, or TCGs, like Yu-gi-Oh or Magic: The Gathering.
Published by Lookout Games, Agricola is an economic euro-styled game that took the gaming community by storm in 2007, that featuring the mechanics of automatic resource growth, card drafting, enclosure, hand management, and variable player powers. It won tons of awards in the late 2000s, like the Golden Geek awards, the Spiel Des Jahres "Complex Game", and more.
Does Agricola hold up to the hype? Is it easy to get into? Is it that replayable? Is it the perfect solo desert board game? What's his high score? Stay tuned till the end for all of these!
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