Keyper

Keyper is a worker placement game for two to four players over four rounds, one for each season. You start with your own village board and a team of keyples in different colours: browns cut wood, blacks mine, oranges dig clay, and the white ones can stand in for anything. The twist is that when one player puts a keyple down, the others can follow. So you are constantly picking your moment and watching what the others will copy. Keyper is the eighth title in the medieval Key series, whose second entry, Keydom, is widely seen as the first worker placement game. Dense, interactive, and about two hours, it suits anyone who likes thinking through spatial tile placement.