Stonemaier Games Viticulture Essential Edition Board Game, for 156 months to 9600 months

This game is fantastic. Components and art are great and its lots of fun to play. A little too difficult for most beginners, but those experienced with worker placement games should be able to pick it up quickly.

Great worker placement game. Having less spots available at smaller player counts makes the game interesting at all player counts. It does a great job with rules making sense with the theme which makes them easier to remember.

The back of the box was very damaged......

Sorry, but cannot recommend. We like games, but three of us spent 2 hours trying to learn the rules without success. The instructions were extremely confusing. We even found a YouTube video and tried learning that way, which was better, but the game was so complicated it made no sense. A great concept that is just overcomplicated and not fun. I understand a tremendous amount of effort must have gone into creating the game, but the instructions are scattered and random. All three of us are intelligent and patient, and were looking at playing this on Christmas Day. What was most surprising is that all of the other reviews make no mention of the challenge to learn the game. In fact, it was the great reviews that attracted me to buy it. But if 3 college educated adults cant figure this out in 2 hours, something is amiss.

I enjoy playing, but between the visitors and the orders both being very chance based I feel like winning is kind of up to luck. That being said, I still like playing, but I wouldnt recommend it for competitive people.

Veticulture is a super table game, you can do a lot of actions between one to six player. I love it.

This game is great, lots of fun to play. However, I did not receive all of the pieces. On the white color pieces, I received 2 yokes and no windmill. Its unfortunate because otherwise the game is worth every penny!

I was so excited for the game and was disappointed by the damage on the box when it came in the mail

Love it. Became one of my favorite games on my first playthough.

Viticulture is a great game. It plays in about 1 hour or less with 2 players. There is a good level of strategy - 5/10 for complexity but even though it is not super complex there are many enjoyable parts to it. It is a worker placement game, and in each round you have a choice whether or not to play your workers in the summer and/or fall seasons. The game ends when one player reaches 20 points, not when a set number of rounds are complete. It is inordinately entertaining to harvest grapes by putting little glass counters on the crush pad, then make wine by transferring them to the cellar. Red and white wines can be combined to make rose and sparkling wines, or just straight by themselves. Of course this game is also the perfect excuse to pour yourself a glass of wine while you play. Much fun!