Lowlands
Wave goodbye to your typical Eurogame
Designer: Claudia Partenheimer, Ralf Partenheimer Artist: Andrea Boekhoff
Eurogames and agriculture. They go together like a pig and mud, like cattle and cud, and like, well, two sheep during Agricola’s breeding phase. At first glance, Lowlands appears to be cut from the same well-worn, soil-splattered cloth as its pastoral ilk; there are boards on which you’ll arrange pastures and their grazing inhabitants, workers you’ll place for maximum pointharvesting efficiency, basic resources for you to collect and invest in action- or point-boosting buildings. Raise your eyes from the idyllic green fields of your farm, though, and you’ll spot the swirling foam-tipped waves that lap against the top of the game’s central board, eroding and rearranging the foundations that lay underneath the seemingly untouched appearance.