Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small

La interface és molt mala

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I picked this up on sale having played the physical board game before, and it's a decent enough port of the two-player animal husbandry version of Agricola — the worker placement mechanics translate well and the scoring is handled automatically, which is nice. The strategy is genuinely engaging for what it is: eight tight rounds of competing for actions and optimizing your farm layout. That said, the interface clearly started life as a mobile app and never fully made the jump to PC — seeing 'tap to continue' on the title screen says it all, and the menus are icon-heavy with little explanation. I ran into some frustrating bugs with the AI freezing mid-turn, and the multiplayer feels largely dead. If you know and love the board game and can grab it on a deep discount, it scratches the itch; otherwise the rough edges are hard to ignore.

Very disappointing digital version of the board game. I used to play on an iPad the Applestore version which was very close to the board game (nice graphics and gameplay). The animations of this Steam version are so bad, the gameplay od so different from the boardgame ... NOT WORTH spending one dollar on it !!!

Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small is a great digital adaptation of the popular board game. This is a two player game about running a farm, breeding, and housing four different animal species. It plays over eight rounds. Area and resource management are key. One might consider this an engine building game but the end creeps up on you so abruptly that every round requires planning and targeted growth to win. You want animals to breed. You need a place to put those animals. You need a place to put their offspring. Every animal you don't have enough of at the end of the game is negative points. You can buy fence rails to expand your farm. There is depth to this game that you don't know is there at first. The AI opponents are challenging, and the multiplayer mode allows you to play with others online. The game is easy to pick up and play, but offers enough depth to keep you engaged. If you're a fan of the board game or just enjoy resource/area management strategy games in general, Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small is definitely worth checking out. A small caveat: Multiplayer is mildly infuriating with how long it takes other people to take their turn. I believe the time limit is 24 hours...so it could potentially take SIXTEEN days to finish a game if both players took maximum time. The fast / speed queue has never worked for me.

This game is made with the same android style kit that the rest of the Rosenberg games are made with (controller, keyboard, mouse == pseudo-finger). It's not bulletproof, but it's a heck of a lot more robust than some reviews make it out to be. I would rate it as about double the reliability of the average browser game. I originally gave a bad review to Isle of Skye, having high expectations, but I've come to play that, this, and other Rosenberg games more than others, simply because these are the *only* broad-market (no "satan cards with grandma") alt boardgames on all of Steam with several ounces of ingenuity. The tutorial is pretty lean, but you can construe all that's necessary with a moment of focus, or a second time through. Quite a bit of effort goes into to formulating a single-finger average-double-integrity-than-the-average-web-game reforumlation-of-a-card-game pc game; So kudos to them for that.

I should have read comment before buying this game. I love the board game but this digital version SUCKS!!!!! In my first game I bought something that I could not place and there was no way to do anything other than quit the game. No save. Hard to read menu as it is all symbols. Don't buy it and I won't play it again. Money wasted.

Aside from a really confusing tutorial that has two points where you basically become "stuck" until you finally discover what UI elements are interactive (had to scroll to get the popup window out of the way / had to click and drag anything until something moved), the game itself is actually fine. Like, if I reeeeally wanted to actually invest some time into learning the strategy, I might not always lose with 2-3x lower points than Easy AI. I would have loved to get the "Win your first game" achievement before giving up.

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