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also have a follow-up quest to close off the area, such as a field, so that no more field edges can be joined to it. Completing quests awards points and gives the player additional tiles, as does matching a tile's edges with those of all six surrounding tiles. The game ends when the player runs out of tiles. Hidden tiles with quests can be found a distance from the starting position, which, if completed, unlock achievements. Completing these achievements grants the player new tile designs, such as a clock tower village tile or an animal that wanders a forest, as well as biomes, or art styles for the game. In addition to the standard game mode, there is a
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placed tile with all six sides barren, and a stack of 40 random tiles to be placed. The player can only place the top tile from the stack, and can only see the top three tiles. Tiles can be rotated before being placed and can be put anywhere in the landscape as long as it touches at least one existing tile. The sole restriction is that placed tiles cannot cause water paths or railroad lines to abruptly end at the edge of a tile. Once placed, a tile cannot be moved again, although the player can undo their actions.
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board game maker to make a spin-off game. Palm and Zach quickly made a digital prototype for a board game, and Toukana agreed to pursue the project. According to Palm, adapting the video game to a board game was generally straightforward due to its design; the primary challenge was changing the computer-controlled systems so that the player would not need to make any calculations until the end of the game.
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award, and was a Recommended Casual Game in the 2024 American Tabletop Awards. While sales numbers have not been published, according to Esser winning the Spiel des Jahres typically results in hundreds of thousands of extra sales to retailers in the following months. A competitive version of the game
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video game in which the player places a series of hexagonal tiles containing elements of a pastoral environment on a plane to create a landscape. Each tile consists of one to six land types: forest, barren, village, water, railroad, and field, with each side assigned to a type. The game begins with a
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s Deutscher Computerspielpreis award wins and tried out the game, then the pair asked Pegasus, with which they regularly worked, to approach Toukana. According to Pegasus co-founder Karsten Esser, this is the opposite of the norm for popular video games, where typically the rights-holders approach a
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was included in the bundle, which sold over 800,000 copies, leading to a spike in attention to the game. Feeling that the game was the most promising of the prototypes, the team decided to pursue developing it. The four worked on the game for nearly two more years; originally they planned to release
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Points are awarded when a tile is placed for how many edges match the edges of neighboring tiles. Some tiles have associated quests, such as creating a railway line including that tile with a minimum length, or creating a contiguous field including that tile with an exact number of edges. Quests may
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paintings, rather than realistic portrayals. The music was composed by Laryssa Okada and Pygoscelis; the team asked them to make ambient and meditative tracks that would not be boring or distract from the gameplay. The twelve tracks for the game were released as two separate purchases alongside the
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video game developed and published by Toukana Interactive. In it, the player places a series of hexagonal tiles containing elements of a pastoral environment to create a landscape. They earn points and additional tiles by connecting like sides of the tiles together, closing off fields, forests, and
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At the time of the early access release, Toukana still planned on releasing the full game in late 2021. In July, however, this was pushed out to spring 2022. The team spent the remainder of the development time improving the game and adding features, such as the creative mode in August 2021, and
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that can be played with one to six players, with games taking 30 to 60 minutes. Like in the video game, new tiles and elements are unlocked as the game is repeatedly played, with players encouraged to record their scores as a "campaign" to earn the right to open up sealed boxes. It won the 2023
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game jam at the end of April with the theme "Keep it Alive". The group approached the theme of the game jam with the concept of "keeping a civilization alive by balancing it out with its surrounding nature". They chose to use placing tiles as a simple core mechanic, then added quests to give a
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in game design they returned. As they began their first semester in the master's program there, the four founded Toukana Interactive to create games as they felt it was the last time in their lives they knew they would all be together focusing on their own projects instead of working at other
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in May. The studio hired a community manager and marketing professional and continued developing the game. They decided to self-publish the game, as they felt one of the goals of the project was to learn all of the parts of creating a game themselves.
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as the game's placeholder title, an older German word that translates into "village romanticization", or a nostalgic feeling for the countryside. Although they were advised to change it for English-speaking audiences, the name ended up sticking.
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companies. They wanted to focus Toukana on creating "minimalistic, inviting games". The group focused their master's theses on the creation of a game and received support from the school's DE:HIVE Institute for starting the company.
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The player has many tiles placed and 30 tiles remaining, with over 18,000 points. The next tile to be placed has two sides railroad and four barren, with an associated quest to make a railroad line which includes at least 97
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as a "gap" in the gameplay—that players could either peacefully place tiles as they saw fit to finish quests or else spend much more time focusing on perfect tile placement to get a high score, with no middle ground.
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version six months early on March 25, 2021. This release again gained a great deal of attention, and the following month the game won Best Game Design and Best Debut and was nominated for Best Family Game at the
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game bundle and became the team's focus. The game's title is an older German word meaning "village romanticization", or a nostalgic feeling for the countryside, and the game itself was inspired by
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called it a "treat for the ears", and said that the music, background noises, and sound effects for actions all "meshes together seamlessly" to make a peaceful experience.
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port in September 2022. Critics gave the game positive reviews, especially for its aesthetics and design, but had mixed opinions on its depth of gameplay. A
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title in March 2021, which led to a spike in attention, as well as awards and nominations. After several updates, the full version was released for
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Critics highly praised the gameplay, though there were mixed opinions on the depth. Several reviewers, such as Wolfgang Rabenstein of
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additional biomes, quests, and tiles. The game continued to receive attention, was nominated for Best Indie Game at the 2021
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said that this created a feeling of "hazy summer holidays, crisp autumnal afternoons and cozy winter nights".
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They built ten different prototype games that semester, each over a few days; one of them was created for a
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with no tile limit, a quick mode with a limited number of tiles, and challenge modes with modified rules.
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by Pegasus Spiele. It was designed by independent designers Lucas Zach and Michael Palm; Zach had seen
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took a stronger tone, saying that the gameplay was "relatively shallow in the long run". Oli Welsh of
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sold a bundle of over 1700 games for charity, titled the "Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality".
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in game design from the university, and Heuberger and Falcke had created and published the game
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atmosphere", and praised the way the biomes would shift into each other as the landscape grew;
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said it was one of the "most charming, welcoming and relaxing game worlds". Marcus Stewart of
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the final game in late 2021, but the positive reception to the game caused them to release an
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was complete, and the team had a clear vision of where they would take the game. They chose
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was on April 28, 2022, and included additional game modes and music. A version for the
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purpose to placing the tiles. At the end of the two day game jam, the core gameplay of
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felt that it had too little strategy, leading their minds to wander. Mitch Vogel of
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villages, and completing quests to make areas of contiguous regions. An additional
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said that it had a good balance of coziness and strategy, while Zoey Handley of
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received "generally favorable reviews", according to the review aggregator
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called it "gorgeous and toylike" and "aesthetically cleansing" and
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was developed by four German and Swiss students in a game design
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was developed by four German and Swiss students studying at
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award. It was followed by a competitive two-player version,
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in February 2024. A sequel to the original board game,
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The presentation of the game was universally praised.
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trade show in August, and won Best German Game at the
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The American Tabletop Awards. 2019-09-16 2088: 2086: 1020: 1018: 1016: 1014: 935: 933: 472: 445: 32: 23: 2249:"Dorfromantik – Sakura (English Edition)" 1621:"Dorfromantik Full Release Overview Post" 1459: 1457: 1259: 1257: 1255: 1253: 1251: 1249: 1584: 1582: 1428: 1426: 1325: 1323: 1321: 1166: 1164: 1162: 1160: 1158: 1156: 1154: 1152: 1150: 690: 426:game's early access and full release as 253:in February 2023, which won that year's 2093:Didymus-True, Mike (October 31, 2023). 2021:"Valve Announces Steam Awards Nominees" 1869:Rabenstein, Wolfgang (April 24, 2022). 1743: 1741: 1704: 1702: 1679:. Toukana Interactive. April 29, 2022. 1677:"Downloadable Content For Dorfromantik" 1211: 1209: 1207: 1205: 1203: 1201: 1199: 1112: 1110: 1108: 1106: 1104: 1102: 895: 868:was released in February 2023. It is a 2071:from the original on November 23, 2022 2031:from the original on December 22, 2021 1805:from the original on September 6, 2022 1482:from the original on September 7, 2022 1306:from the original on February 17, 2022 1234:from the original on September 4, 2022 2374:Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective 2148:"Dorfromantik: The Board Game Review" 1949:Ronaghan, Neal (September 30, 2022). 1927:from the original on November 4, 2022 1765:from the original on October 19, 2022 1623:. Toukana Interactive. April 28, 2022 1601:from the original on January 22, 2022 1563:. Toukana Interactive. August 4, 2021 1502:"Dorfromantik - Early Access Outlook" 1135:from the original on January 21, 2022 988:"『Dorfromantikă€ăƒŹăƒ“ăƒ„ăƒŒ ă‚ă“ăŒă‚Œăźç”°èˆŽă„ăă‚ŠăšăăźăƒȘă‚ąăƒ«" 958:from the original on October 21, 2022 802: 717: 241:in April 2022, and was followed by a 7: 2227:"Dorfromantik - The Duel US Edition" 2053:Loveridge, Sam (November 22, 2022). 1961:from the original on October 1, 2022 1657:from the original on August 31, 2023 1589:Dastoor, Vaspaan (August 23, 2021). 1504:. Toukana Interactive. 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August 23, 2023 940:Purchese, Robert (May 18, 2021). 723:Independent Games Festival Awards 369:Independent Games Festival Awards 2736:Video games developed in Germany 1787:Handley, Zoey (April 28, 2022). 1358:Boudreau, Ian (March 25, 2021). 878:for two players was released as 582:and Best Indie Game at the 2022 399:, as well as by the video games 1330:RĂŒegg, Philipp (May 19, 2022). 986:Nomura, Hikaru (May 30, 2022). 757:(German Computer Games Awards) 657:praised the "idyllic visuals". 1983:Shaver, Morgan (May 3, 2022). 1951:"Dorfromantik (Switch) Review" 778:Young Talent Award Best Debut 428:Dorfromantik Soundtrack Vol. 1 1: 1710:"Dorfromantik for PC Reviews" 1527:Harris, Iain (July 1, 2021). 1464:Knoop, Joseph (May 8, 2021). 1117:Kerr, Chris (July 19, 2021). 1025:Welsh, Oli (April 30, 2022). 2172:Welsh, Oli (July 18, 2023). 1439:Deutscher Computerspielpreis 866:Dorfromantik: The Board Game 852:Dorfromantik: The Board Game 754:Deutscher Computerspielpreis 365:Deutscher Computerspielpreis 251:Dorfromantik: The Board Game 2757: 790:(German Developer Awards) 2731:Single-player video games 2320: 787:Deutscher Entwicklerpreis 765: 752: 710: 707: 704: 701: 698: 481: 478: 454: 451: 382:Deutscher Entwicklerpreis 322:ViSP - Virtual Space Port 31: 2711:Early access video games 226:landscape paintings and 601:, and the reviewer for 2662:MicroMacro: Crime City 1789:"Review: Dorfromantik" 1653:. 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Hexagonal tiles featuring a windmill on a blue background with Dorf Romantik beside them
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A plane of hexagons, containing fields, water, railroads, and villages. A stack of tiles is in the bottom right.
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