Kokoro: Avenue of the Kodama

Kokoro: Avenue of the Kodama (2017) is a paths-and-offerings game for up to eight players, and it plays in about fifteen minutes because everyone acts at once. The kodama forest has grown wild, and you are asked to restore the ancient paths. Each player has a personal forest map and draws paths to connect sanctuaries to offerings, which earns favor with the guardians. The catch is timing: you never know exactly when a sanctuary will score, and if a sanctuary is not connected to more offerings than your previous one, you lose points. So you cannot be too greedy. It works with one to eight players and the box suggests ages fourteen and up.