Starling Games
Everdell Essentials Edition Board Game
Everdell Essentials Edition Board Game
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Product overview
Build a thriving woodland city through a year of clever choices and changing seasons.
The classic Everdell worker-placement and tableau-building experience in a more streamlined component edition.
Place workers, gather resources, build your city and combine Critter and Construction cards to finish with the most points.
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About this product
Build a thriving woodland city through a year of clever choices and changing seasons.
The classic Everdell worker-placement and tableau-building experience in a more streamlined component edition.
Place workers, gather resources, build your city and combine Critter and Construction cards to finish with the most points.
Product Description
Step into the woodland valley of Everdell, where a growing community of forest critters is ready to establish new cities beneath the Ever Tree.
In Everdell Essentials Edition, you place workers at locations to gather resources, then use those resources to play Critter and Construction cards into your city. Cards can work together in different ways as your tableau develops, while Events and seasonal decisions give you more opportunities to build towards your final score.
The Essentials Edition keeps the same core gameplay, cards, artwork and structure as Everdell while using a more economical component selection, including punchboard resource and scoring tokens.
Why You’ll Love It
- Enjoy Everdell's worker-placement and tableau-building gameplay in a streamlined edition.
- Gather resources and use them to develop your own woodland city.
- Combine Critter and Construction cards as your tableau grows.
- Plan across the changing seasons as new opportunities become available.
- Work towards Events and different scoring opportunities throughout the game.
- Features the same core gameplay, cards and artwork as the standard Everdell game.
- Uses punchboard resource and scoring tokens for a more economical Everdell edition.
Quick Details
- Manufacturer: Starling Games
- Designer: James A. Wilson
- Illustration: Andrew Bosley
- Edition: Essentials Edition
- Product type: Strategy board and card game
- Game system: Everdell
- Players: 2–4
- Recommended age: 10 years and older
- Playing time: 40–80 minutes
- Language: English
- Gameplay: Worker placement, tableau building and engine building
- Objective: Develop your city and finish the game with the most points
- Product code: STG2680EN
- Rules type: Core Rules
- Contents shown on packaging: 128 illustrated cards, 1 game board, 24 wooden Critters, 1 Ever Tree, 4 Event tiles, 27 mini cards and various tokens
Good to Know
- Standalone base game: Everdell Essentials Edition is a complete game and does not require another Everdell product to play.
- Same core Everdell game: The core rules, gameplay mechanics, cards and structure remain the same as standard Everdell.
- Different component package: The Essentials Edition replaces the premium resource and scoring components with punchboard alternatives, providing a more streamlined edition of the game.
- Multiplayer edition: This Essentials Edition is designed for 2–4 players and does not include the native Rugwort solo mode found in the standard edition.
- Prefer the standard version? Explore Everdell Standard Edition for another version of the same core game, including its native solo mode.
- Explore another corner of the Everdell world: Everdell: Emerland Essentials Edition is a separate standalone game that takes the Everdell experience into a tropical jungle setting.
