Everdell Standard Edition Board Game

About this product

Build a woodland city beneath the Ever Tree, one season and one clever decision at a time.

A strategic 1–4 player board game of worker placement, card play and city building, with a dedicated solo mode.

Gather resources, play Critter and Construction cards, complete Events and build the highest-scoring city before autumn ends.

Product Description

Step beneath the branches of the Ever Tree and begin building a woodland city of your own. In Everdell, you lead a community of forest critters through the changing seasons, gathering resources, constructing buildings and welcoming new characters into your growing settlement.

Each turn gives you one choice: place a worker, play a card or prepare for the next season. Workers travel to locations across Everdell to collect resources and carry out actions, while Critter and Construction cards gradually shape the city in front of you. Cards can be played from your hand or selected from the face-up Meadow, giving you different possibilities as the game develops.

As the seasons move from late winter towards autumn, new workers become available and your opportunities expand. Events, card abilities, worker locations and the cards already in your city all contribute to the decisions ahead. When every player has completed their final season, points from cities, Events, Journeys and other scoring opportunities determine whose woodland settlement has prospered most.

Everdell can also be played solo, where you face Rugwort across three progressively more challenging difficulty levels.

Why You’ll Love It

• Build your own woodland city using a combination of Critter and Construction cards.
• Choose between worker placement, playing cards and preparing for the next season on each turn.
• Gather twigs, resin, pebbles and berries to develop your city and bring new cards into play.
• Explore worker placement and tableau-building gameplay with different card combinations and opportunities.
• Complete Events and plan for several different ways to earn points.
• Play with 1–4 players, including a dedicated solo mode against Rugwort.
• Watch your options develop as spring, summer and autumn bring new workers and seasonal effects.
• Enjoy a richly illustrated game world centred around the Ever Tree and the critters of Everdell.

Quick Details

• Publisher: Starling Games
• Designer: James A. Wilson
• Illustrator: Andrew Bosley
• Edition: Standard Edition
• Product type: Strategy board game
• Players: 1–4
• Recommended age: 14 years and older
• Playing time: Approximately 60 minutes
• Game modes: Solo or multiplayer
• Game mechanics: Worker placement and tableau building
• Turn actions: Place a Worker, Play a Card or Prepare for Season
• Objective: Develop your woodland city and finish the game with the most points
• Contents: 1 game board, 1 Ever Tree, 24 workers, 128 Critter & Construction cards, 11 Forest cards, 16 Special Event cards, 4 Basic Event tiles, 1 Victory card, 30 point tokens, 20 occupied tokens, 1 eight-sided die, 30 twigs, 25 resin, 20 pebbles and 30 berries

Good to Know

• Standalone game: This is the Everdell Standard Edition base game and does not require an expansion to play.
• Solo play included: The solo rules pit you against Rugwort, with three separate levels of difficulty.
• Different seasonal timing: Players do not have to prepare for a new season at the same time, so one player may move into the next season before another.
• Build within your city limit: A normal city has space for up to 15 cards, while achieved Event cards do not count towards this limit.
• Two ways to find cards: Cards can be played from your hand or from the eight face-up cards in the Meadow.
• Multiple scoring opportunities: Final scoring can include card values, point tokens, Prosperity bonuses, Journey points and completed Events.
• Rulebook: View the official rulebook