Keyflower: The Merchants

What is Keyflower: The Merchants

In Keyflower, each player develops her own unique village over four seasons by successfully bidding for village tiles that feature specialized buildings and boats, and by collecting skills, resources and workers ("keyples").

In Keyflower: The Merchants, the second expansion for Keyflower, players continue to develop their village by building extensions and cabins, entering into lucrative contracts, and encountering new combinations of items on the incoming boats.

Whereas Keyflower: The Farmers added breadth to the Keyflower game, Keyflower: The Merchants adds depth. The contracts, for example, provide more ways to score points, but may also be traded for the item they depict: workers, resources, or skill tiles. Extensions double the fixed point scores of existing tiles. Cabins provide more opportunities to upgrade and to build the extensions. Keyflower: The Merchants works well with 2-6 number of players and particularly enhances the two-player game.

Players may choose to use all of the tiles from Keyflower: The Merchants, then add additional tiles at random from Keyflower in order to make up the required number of tiles (the Merchant's variant), or they can simply combine the new tiles with the existing game.

Game details

Players

2–6

Age

+14

Duration

90 min

Difficulty

Heavy

Type

Expansion

Year

2014

Mechanics

Auction / Bidding · Modular Board · Network and Route Building

Categories

City Building · Economic · Expansion for Base-game

Designer

Richard Breese · Sebastian Bleasdale

Publisher

R&D Games · Czacha Games · Game Salute · Hutter Trade GmbH + Co KG