Last review of 2025

[alobear]

At our usual New Year gaming get-together yesterday, I played Zen Garden, which is exactly the kind of game I really love. You collect tiles to build a garden on your player mat, matching background surface, path type and feature in various combinations to try and obtain the most points. There's a decision point around where the tiles are in the available gallery (they cost differing amounts of money to obtain, depending on position, but they get cheaper if they are left to the next round) and there are too many scoring variables to be able to achieve everything.

It was really fun - I always love pattern matching to maximise point scoring. I didn't do fantastically well, but I really enjoyed it and would definitely like to play it again.