Agricola
- Players
- 1-5
- Best withThe player count this game plays best at.
- 4 players
- Play timeHow long a full game runs once everyone knows the rules.
- 150 min
- AgeThe minimum age printed by the publisher.
- 12+
- ComplexityHow demanding the rules are, from 1 (very light) to 5 (very heavy).
- 3.6 / 5
- Year
- 2007
About the game
Agricola is the seminal worker-placement game in which you grow a small farming family from a bare wooden shack into a thriving homestead. Each round you and your spouse take turns claiming actions like plowing fields, gathering resources, or building fences, with new options revealed as the game progresses. Hundreds of Occupation and Minor Improvement cards let players pursue wildly different strategies across each session. Balancing family growth against the resources needed to feed everyone creates constant, meaningful tension for 1-5 players.
Hobbli's Notes
Agricola remains one of the most influential worker-placement games ever made: the tension between growing your family and having enough food to feed them is a masterstroke of thematic design. The sheer number of card combinations gives it near-endless replayability, though its unforgiving feeding phase isn't for the faint of heart.
What we like
- Hundreds of Occupation and Improvement cards create huge strategic variety.
- Tight worker-placement tension between growth and feeding your family.
- Scales from simple family variant to deep advanced card play.
- Enduring design that has influenced countless later euro games.
Keep in mind
- The feeding mechanism can feel punishing for new players.
- Long playtime and card-based complexity increase the learning curve.
- Some card draws can feel imbalanced without careful deck curation.
Who it's for
Ideal for euro-gamers aged 12+ who enjoy deep resource management and worker placement; best with 1-5 players in a strategy-focused session.
