Everdell: Pearlbrook

Terrible. Lengthens the game, pearls are impossible to find, seems like they bolted an entire second game to Everdell. I'm not a fan.

This expansion add a board to the left of the Everdell board, adds a new worker token, the frog, and adds new locations to build to give points called wonders, and a new resource in the form of pearls. This expansion is okay. It adds more things to do with a new worker. I just wish that the frog worker could be used on regular spaces, instead of only being allowed on the water spaces of the new board.

10/18/2020

This is what an expansion should do: improve upon the mechanics of the base game, add some new exciting things to do without moving the focus too much to other things. You have a new critter worker to place, which gives you more options, but you can only use that new critter (the frog ambassador) to use the action spaces that relate to the river. Base game events - which were probably the weakest part of the game - are replaced by Wonders, which are - no pun intended - wonderful additions to the game, representing at the same time an important source of point, an additional source of interaction and a major contributor to the game looking great at the table. This one surpassed our expectations.

Probably the weakest of the expansions I own for this game. Adds a new worker type and currency but limited impact elsewhere on the base game. Ok in conjuction with other expansions.