Formosa Tea BGG ↗

Formosa Tee · German edition · (2020)

Your rating: 7.5

My BGG Comment

Worker placement game about tea production in Taiwan. Played over six rounds that each end with a historical event. You need to harvest the tea leaves, bring them to the factories for green, black and oolong tea and then produce the tea with your tea masters over a series if refinement steps. You get to advance your mastery of each type of teach and sell tea on global and local markets fulfilling valuable contracts. It took me 2 reads of the manual to grasp how the production engine works in this game. I find it plays quite relaxed with some beneficial interactivity and very little getting in each other‘s way. Has a good table presence with a beautifully composed color scheme and an intriguing looking board. Just enough crunch to stay interesting. I think the time is closer to 90 minutes for 2 practiced players and higher for more than 2 players.