The latest game on high rotation in this house is Verdant, from Flat Out Games. It's a puzzly, spatial card game for house plant lovers. We can't have house plants because our two cats eat anything green we bring into the house including kale and broccoli on the kitchen table. So the next best thing is this super fun game.
This game is gorgeous and lush with its beautiful plant illustrations, botanical details and descriptions along with the superb components. I'm a sucker for wooden playing pieces and the monsterra leaves that are used to add verdancy to your house plant are sooo cute! It also comes with a customise screen printed bag in which to store the cardboard item tokens.
One of the things I am starting to notice in more recent board games is the new levelled game play on offer. Typically this looks like a basic set-up as an introduction to the game with some bonus goals that can be added later to make the game more difficult and up the level to advanced.
Calico which is from the same designers has a similar layered playing level mechanic going on. I picked up a copy of Calico when I backed Verdant on Kickkstarter and it was the game that we were playing at the end of last year. At the time I couldn't believe that the Verdant was the game I backed but wasn't being played. You must never know what the people are going to go nuts for. And Calico is all about cute cats so I guess it was understandable.
So far we have only played Verdant in the introductory mode and I look forward to trying out the bonus goals once we have nailed the basics. Oh and the Kickstarter copy which we have also comes with the spotless plants expansion, so lots there's lots going on to make this game super replayable.