And now we have Octopus' Garden! This one's a lot different from Sushi Go!
In Octopus' Garden, players take the role of Octopuses competing to create the most beautiful gardens. Attract colourful seahorses and clown fish, without losing pearl-producing oysters to the hungry sea stars!
Octopus' Garden is a tile-laying game for 2 to 4 players. Players chose which plant and animal tiles to purchase from a central market and then decide how best to arrange them in their own garden. Careful planning is required to attract seahorses and clownfish, to protect pearl-producing oysters from the sea stars, and to avoid startling delicate feather worms. - Board Game Geek
The object of the game is try and score the most points, buying things from the marketplace using pearls. The amount of pearls you get each turn depends on the number of oysters you have on the board. Oysters are worth negative points, so you have to balance the number of oysters that you have.
This one is interesting because it deals with resource management. How does one balance the number of oysters? You can only buy things from the marketplace in a row, so sometimes you might be stuck buying things for negative points if you want to buy something worth much more, or if it's all that you can afford with your pearls. The game is over when one person fills up their garden.
Yeah, I lost at this game.
What I liked about this game:
Epic meaning - There are some tiles that account for pollution - destroying your garden's worth. If you notice on my game board, I have 2 bottles which took 4 points away with me. But getting those bottles were inevitable as I wanted to make a nice home/garden. Children can relate to this: how can the animals have a nice home if there's so much crap in the garden?
Choice - You can choose not to take a turn, you choose what to buy, you choose how your pieces go on the board... There are a lot of choices to be made in this game, which can impact how the game ends.
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