Everbloom (2023)

An auction, area-control, and set collection game for 1-4 players, set in a world that has seen the last flower bloom.

In Everbloom, players will be various factions of pollinating creatures who venture into the Wilderness in search of flowers and Nectar. Transformed by the petals of an ancient dragon, the local wildlife have become Hybrids that begin to terraform the world around them and bring new life to the lands.

Each turn, the pollinators will visit Locations with their Faction Chips of different values, then distribute pollinators equal to the chips value in an attempt to recruit adjacent Hybrids. Once all chips have been placed, the faction with the most pollinators on each Hybrid will escort them back to their Habitat and score them, while other factions that bid on that Hybrid will stay in the Groves and pollinate the newly created flora.

Once all Hybrids have been resolved, the factions will then pollinate the flora covered Hybrids in their Habitat by choosing a Grove and placing all of their Pollinators from it onto the flora. Once pollinated, Hybrid cards will flip granting Nectar for end game scoring. Along the way, factions will also be gathering Essence (or remnants of Nectar) as well as completing objectives to create new flower species.

After the fourth round, the game ends and each Faction will score their Habitats. Each Faction will total up the Nectar they have in each of the five Biomes, then the player with the most in each scores VP equal to the Nectar they have. Afterwards, players score VP based on how far up the Objective Track they were able to get, then the player with the most VP wins.

–description from designer