Everdell (2018)

“All You Can Board considers Everdell a fantastic and highly replayable game, praising its beautiful presentation, engaging gameplay, and robust solo mode, making it an almost complete package in board gaming.”

Rahdo highly praises Everdell for its stunning production quality and charming theme, noting its surprising depth that makes for a satisfying and engaging experience in both solo and two-player modes. He finds the gameplay sharp and the overall sense of growth rewarding, despite minor concerns about higher player counts.

The reviewer highly recommends Everdell, praising its engaging gameplay, appealing art, and mechanics, calling it a very good and fantastic worker placement game despite a minor issue with the Ever Tree component.

The reviewer thoroughly enjoyed Everdell, praising its unique blend of worker placement and engine building mechanics and finding the gameplay to be awesome, despite a minor quibble about limited direct player interaction.

The reviewers found Everdell to be a gorgeous and really fun worker placement and set collection game, highlighting its beautiful artwork, high-quality components, and engaging gameplay that offers significant replayability through variable setup.

The reviewers highly recommend Everdell, praising its adorable theme, engaging worker placement and tableau building mechanics, and strong replayability, making it a standout game that keeps players returning for more.

Man vs Meeple found Everdell to be a beautifully thematic and deceptively deep worker placement game with engaging gameplay and excellent components, offering a rich experience for experienced gamers despite a slight learning curve for new players in optimizing turns.

The reviewer highly praises Everdell for its delightful artwork and engaging strategic depth, particularly enjoying the process of discovering card synergies to build an optimal city.

The reviewer highly praises Everdell for its immersive world-building, satisfying and challenging gameplay, beautiful aesthetics, and high replayability, describing it as a delightful experience suitable for those looking for medium-weight board games.

The reviewer enthusiastically recommends Everdell, praising its engaging worker placement mechanics, stunning artwork, and overall fun gameplay, despite a minor concern regarding the flimsiness of the Ever Tree component.

The reviewer found Everdell to be an excellent and charming board game that offers immersive world-building and satisfying, highly replayable gameplay, combining various mechanisms into a cohesive and delightful experience.

The reviewers consider Everdell a solid recommendation, praising its charming theme, amazing components, and surprising strategic depth that makes it a great entry point for new board gamers, despite some minor practical issues with board setup and card visibility.

The reviewer expressed strong enjoyment for Everdell, praising its engaging decision-making and overall positive experience, with only a minor concern about the randomness of drawing desired cards.

The reviewer highly recommends Everdell, praising it as a very enjoyable game for solo play and all player counts, noting its quick gameplay.

The reviewer highly recommends Everdell, praising its engaging gameplay, scalability for different player counts including a solo mode, and immense replay value, describing it as a great experience even for those new to worker placement games.

The reviewer found Everdell to be a beautifully crafted board game that offers a whimsical journey as players create their own critter cities in a magical world.

“Everdell is an excellent board game full of immersive world building and satisfying game play. It is both challenging and delighting to work through each season, filling your city full with critters and structures.”

“GamesRadar+ finds Everdell to be a delightfully cozy and strategic Eurogame, offering gentle competition with gorgeous illustrations and satisfying resource management that is sure to amuse fans of the genre.”

“Everdell isn’t reinventing the wheel, but it’s beautiful to look at and pleasing to play. It’s both familiar and comforting; easy to learn while surprising and challenging.”

“Everdell Board Game is a really impressive game on a number of levels. The standout features are definitely in it’s aesthetics, from it’s unique immersive board, to it’s well crated components, to it’s incredible artwork, everything has been crafted impressively and helps set the scene thematically.”

“If you like worker-placement games, building up your tableau of cards with combos, and a fun them with fantastic artwork, then Everdell is definitely a game to dive into and see if you’ll ever want to leave.”

“Everdell is a highly recommended worker placement and tableau-building game, praised for its stunning artwork, immersive world, strategic depth, and high replayability, making it both accessible for beginners and satisfying for experienced players.”

“But if players come for the production value and theme, they stay for the gameplay. Everdell is an excellent balance of several mechanics, namely worker placement, card drafting, set collection, and resource conversation.”

“Everdell is the opposite, it’s a rich, sumptuous, delicious feast for the eyes and the brain, and you won’t regret buying it if it sounds like your kind of thing.”

“Smithsonian Magazine praised Everdell as a heavy strategy game that excels in its physical components, such as weighty coins, tactile berries, and a three-dimensional tree, while also providing an enjoyable and strategic gameplay experience suitable for those looking to advance beyond games like Catan or 7 Wonders.”

The reviewer praised Everdell as a relaxing and visually appealing worker placement game that is easy to learn yet offers meaningful decisions, making it an excellent gateway game for new players despite minor issues with the tree's functionality and a lack of groundbreaking innovation.

Everdell is lauded as a genuinely fun and immersive worker placement game that offers a unique experience, with its beautiful components and well-balanced mechanics contributing to a highly replayable and engaging tabletop adventure.

The reviewer highly praises Everdell as a beautiful and engaging worker placement and tableau building game, noting its gorgeous aesthetics and balanced challenge, making it an excellent gateway game for new players.

“If you are not familiar with it, Everdell is a worker placement and engine-building game published by Starling Games. It’s a really good game, but a bit too complex for my almost 6-year olds.”

The reviewer highly recommends Everdell, praising its serene engine-building gameplay, clever card combos, and appealing artwork. While generally positive, the reviewer noted minor drawbacks such as the limited time across four rounds feeling restrictive and the occasional unachievable goal due to card luck.

The reviewer noted that the digital version of Everdell improves upon the physical board game's design by eliminating the often cumbersome tree component, which in the tabletop version could obstruct players' views, leading to a smoother gameplay experience.

“Everdell is a beautiful board game that captures the feel of Wind in the Willows. Gameplay-wise it’s a great tableau-builder that doesn’t stray too far from genre conventions but delivers on what’s in the box.”

The reviewers offered varied but generally positive opinions on Everdell; Ashton found the game grew on him due to enjoyable card interactions and comboing despite initial thematic reservations, while Daniel enthusiastically praised its strategic depth, numerous options, and impressive presentation.

The reviewer highly praised Everdell for its stunning artwork, thematic immersion provided by the tree component, and engaging card-comboing gameplay, though they found the rulebook somewhat lacking in clarity and wished for more interactive use of the tree.

Zee Garcia praises Everdell as a good, engaging worker placement and resource management game, highlighting its rich theme and charming artwork, and recommends it for players who appreciate strong aesthetics and this genre of game.

The reviewer acknowledged Everdell's enjoyable core card play, calling it the "real meat" of the game. However, he indicated a preference for the standalone Everdell Farshore over the original Everdell, unless the original was enhanced with expansions.