ALLPLAY - River Valley Glassworks Deluxe Edition Board Game for Families and Adults - Cozy Yet Clever Drafting Game - Colorful, Tactile Pieces - Scoring Puzzle - 1 to 5 Players - 20 Minutes

This is a fantasticly designed game and the deluxe edition is very much worth it. The mechanics are easy to teach yet the game has enough strategy for even the most seasoned player. The build quality is amazing this a game designed to be played often and last for years.

Such a fun quick game! Very easy to learn and cute characters! Lots of strategy involved and the random glass draws make every game different. Definitely one of our new favorites!

love this game

Love this game. Easy and quick family game that we all enjoy playing together

I've really been enjoying this one so far. The theme is fun and the components and art do a great job of bringing this little world to life. Rules are pretty easy to learn from the book, or find a video online, and once you know the game it can be taught fairly easily. There is a lot of movement and fiddling with components during the game (moving tiles, refilling gems, etc.) but it's easy to manage and fun to see what new stuff comes out. Some of the colors are a bit similar, but we haven't really had a problem with this as long as lighting is decent. Scoring for the game is a little confusing at first, but not too complicated. I also love the variety of solo opponents you can play with, each with varying rules and complexity for more variety.I think one of my only minor complaints is that the little gauge on the side to track your gems and eventually trigger the end of the game is kind of hard to see and it's easy to forget to update it. It's always nice to plan ahead for the last few turns and having the end surprise you isn't as fun. I try to get around this by having folks announce their gem total after each turn.Overall, this is a great, light little game with a fen theme and nice components. Looking forward to playing this with more folks and would happily recommend this one.

love this game. Arrived promptly and in the promised condition.

This is a great presentation in a deluxe version of the game. The components are to notch.

This abstract strategy game was a breakout hit at Gen Con and it has the advantage of being playable by 1-5 players and taking only 20 minutes or so to play. It is also quick to set up and to break back down.The meat of the gameplay consists of putting a game piece into one of six river sections that is marked with the same shape as the piece being put in. The player putting in the piece then chooses the one of two river sections next to that section and takes all the pieces and puts them by color (instead of shape) onto their personal player board.The placement rules are that (a) if a player already has any pieces of that color on their board, other pieces of that color must go in the same column, in the lowest row possible, or (b) if a piece is a new color, it must go into the leftmost column in the bottom row. If the piece can't be placed, it goes into the player's "overflow" and at the end of the game, each piece there is worth -3 points.Points are scored in rows and columns and some colors are rarer than others. It's a bit of a brain burner to figure out which stones to put in the river and which to take out and place, as well as which to put down where. There's also the fact that stones you place into the river may or may not be there on your next turn!There's a little more to it, but not much.A good game for fans of games like Azul.A very easy game to learn but a hard one for maximizing points.