Beschrijving
Tea Garden is a refined strategy game from debut designer Tomáš Holek, blending deck-building, worker placement, and a brilliantly original resource management system into a smooth and rewarding experience.
Set in the lush river valleys of China’s Yunnan region, you take on the role of a tea garden owner striving to grow a thriving tea empire. Tea leaves are your core currency—available as fresh green leaves or fermented black leaves. Green tea starts valuable but loses worth each round, while black tea gains value as time passes. You can’t acquire black tea directly; instead, you must carefully ferment green leaves, creating a constant tension between short-term needs and long-term rewards. This elegant mechanism drives the unique and addictive flow of the game.
Each round, you will use your personal deck of cards to perform up to four main actions. Card strength determines how powerful your actions are, encouraging smart timing and deck optimization. Expand your network of tea gardens, harvest and ferment tea, trade with traveling caravans, and acquire new cards to refine your strategy. On top of that, secondary actions allow you to navigate the river, produce tea cups, or deepen your knowledge through university tea studies.
With multiple tea qualities, regional production differences, and meaningful strategic choices every round, Tea Garden offers deep gameplay wrapped in an inviting and thematic setting—perfect for players who enjoy thoughtful engine-building and evolving economies.
