Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Low interaction
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Grow a compact farm card by card, turn crops and animals into resources, and fulfill goals before another farmer reaches the top reputation.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Read the full game description
Countryside is a worker-placement and engine-building game about shaping a productive farm from a compact deck of cards. Players expand into fields, meadows, gardens, barns, and houses, then add crops, trees, animals, and staff whose effects feed one another. Workers select actions, sunlight governs development, and baskets move between empty, filled, and coin states as produce is gathered, processed, and sold. Public and private goals reward efficient planning, but the end is triggered by reputation, so the winning farm must grow quickly as well as elegantly.
