Evergreen

Evergreen

This is the Dutch-language edition. You have discovered a new planet and now you are trying to make it liveable. Trees, shrubs and lakes provide enough oxygen and water. This planet also turns around the sun, so the trees grow lushly and a healthy ecosystem develops.

You each have your own board, on which you place small and large trees, shrubs and lakes. Cards from a display determine what you do. The card you choose sets where on your planet you may carry out your actions. You may also take a bonus action shown on the card, which becomes stronger and stronger as the game goes on.

On your turn you may take 2 actions in the area shown on the card, or 1 action in any other area of your choice. You can pick a combination of planting and upgrading trees. Bonus actions give extra options, such as planting shrubs, which make your forests bigger, and creating lakes, which allow extra upgrades. Each round you get 1 turn fewer, but because your bonus actions keep getting stronger, you do more per turn. After every round you score points.

You mainly score points for trees that catch sunlight and for the size of your forests, including shrubs. Depending on the position of the sun, trees put other trees in the shade, so those score no points during a scoring. Because the sun shines from a different side after every round, that situation changes each round.