Featured Game - Apiary

Featured games are our way of teaching new games and highlighting something we think our players may enjoy or take note of. We'll explain from scratch how to play the game with a detailed description and demonstrate a few turns, then break into tables to actually play it. Each week it'll be something new, but will run the spectrum of different lengths, complexities, themes, and game mechanics. So if this week's game doesn't interest you, feel free to look again next time around!

Apiary is a worker placement game set in the far future, when honeybees have evolved to become a dominant spacefaring species. In each round, you'll send a bee to a location to collect resources, fill out your space station with different locations, and other actions to gain various advantages. Unlike most worker placement games, workers have an effective strength level that makes them stronger as they stay with you, and can be bumped from a space to return them to your worker pool early.

Apiary is a game for up to 5 players and should take about 1 to 1&1/2 hours for experienced players to play. It has a complexity of 3.01 on BoardGameGeek, making this moderately heavy compared to games typically played here.

Read the rules here: https://tesera.ru/images/items/2270586/1.pdf
Watch a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdzNSPQlML0

If this is your first time with this group, you should see a link to our Discord group once you've signed up for this event. You may join any time before the event begins to get to know people, but once this event starts, we'll typically join the Lobby voice chat, then move to another voice chat once we've gotten started. Note that I, as the game teacher, will share my screen to show how the game works, but all other interaction will be voice only, no video, so no need to look presentable first. The game itself will be played using Board Game Arena - please create an account on this site beforehand.