Queenz
Designer: Bruno Cathala, Johannes Goupy | Artist: Vincent Dutrait
This is Bruno Cathala’s second gardening game of the year. We reviewed Ishtar a couple of months back as an extremely tight tile layer about making the desert bloom. This is a similar affair. Players play as ‘famous beekeepers’ (according to the box) and as such they are trying to create a garden which scores them the most bee points.
While not exactly Wingspan in terms of habitat building – you’re just picking flowers from the row that the gardener is currently on, and strategically placing hives – it’s still satisfyingly personal to you. You take turns picking flowers, with a few restrictions – you can’t pick three of the same colour, but you can pick two matching orchids. Once this is done they go into your personal supply, and the gardener is moved on equal to the number of orchids picked.