If your table likes a gentle builder with a bit of bite, UK studio Alley Cat Games has one for you. Foxglove Farm casts one to four players as foxes founding a village, laying down building tiles and linking them with winding trails. It is a standalone follow-up to last year's Timber Town, and it is up for pre-order now at GBP 29.99.
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Find events near youThe heart of it is a tidy spatial puzzle. Across four rounds, each split into production, construction, transportation and processing phases, you grow your settlement from a hand of building tiles. Some buildings churn out raw goods while others convert them into victory points, and trails are how you shuttle those goods around town. Space is tight and the market keeps shifting, so the trick is choosing which buildings to add and where to slot them so everything connects efficiently. It is the work of designers Aya and Shun Taguchi, and it plays in 30 to 60 minutes with a proper solo mode alongside the competitive game.
The fox-village art is as charming as it sounds, all cottages, wells and grazing land rendered in warm colour. If Timber Town passed you by, this is a friendly place to start.
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