Floriferous

Stroll through a garden over three days, picking flowers and desires, and pair them for points.

Designers: Steve Finn, Eduardo Baraf
Published by: Pencil First Games, LLC
Editions by: Rebel Sp. z o.o., Vagabund, Quality Beast

You stroll through a garden, and at every step you pick up a flower or a desire card. That is more or less the whole game, and it is lovely. Floriferous runs over three days of five turns each. On your turn you move one step through the garden and take a card, building a little tableau of flowers and the desires they can satisfy. At the end you add up your desires, your mastery cards and the points you earned along the way, and the highest total wins. It is a drafting and set-collection game with a calm, tactile feel, short enough to be played twice in a row. The art is gentle, the decisions are about timing and pairing, and there is a solo mode too.

Three days of five steps eachPair flowers with desire and mastery cardsGentle drafting, solo mode included

Who it's for

You want a relaxed card game with a garden theme, pretty art and small tactical choices, for one to four people.

Not for you if…

You want conflict, big swings or a heavy strategy puzzle. This one is deliberately gentle.

Vibe's take

Calm and pretty. You pick, you pair, you quietly watch the person next to you take the flower you wanted. Low stress, small clever turns.