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Perennial is a gorgeous new puzzly tile-laying game about planting a lush, diverse, and beautiful prairie garden! The game is played over four rounds, with two phases per round. Each round players will have two turns to gather tools, plants, and animals for their gardens by selecting a Tool Card and combination of Plant and/or Animal Tokens. After all players have collected tools, plants, and animals, they simultaneously plant their gardens. The tricky part of the game is that you can only gather and plant based on the shape and form of the tools you collect. Earn points by creating regions of the same type/color of plant, by matching animals to their favorite plants, and by adding idyllic ponds and features to your garden. Players must be clever in both drafting and placement to balance all of their objectives in making the most harmonious garden. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins!
What makes Perennial great?
This might be our crunchiest spatial puzzle game yet, with one of the simplest rulesets!
It’s a tile and card drafting, polyomino placement puzzle set in a prairie garden!
We’ve really leaned into the thinky and the puzzly - Perennial has a number of overlapping scoring conditions giving players lots of options and each game is a unique experience based on different scoring objectives!
In Perennial there is increasing tension as you fill in your garden board, similar to what players love about games like Calico or Cascadia, but using new mechanics and creating a new type of puzzly challenge.
Turn-based drafting and simultaneous tile placement phases mean that each of the game’s 4 rounds are quick, yet satisfying!
Perennial uses polyominos in a new way! On a turn, players draft tiles from the board in one shape (based on the polyomino shape depicted on the card they select for their supply). These square tiles are then disaggregated when placed in the play area. In the placement phase, any of the player’s collected tiles may be reassembled and placed in their garden by using a card in their collection. It’s thinky, strategic, and satisfying in all the right ways!
As with our previous games, Perennial features many different modes to suit different player experience. If you’d like a simpler, more casual puzzle we have a Family Mode. For one player games there is a robust solo mode complete with achievements and a number of scenarios, with increasing difficulty to challenge even the most seasoned gamers.
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PERENNIAL is planned to be crowdfunded in Fall 2026 and released in 2027!