Overgrown: A Tricky Tile-Laying Game of Nature Reclamation

🌿 What is Overgrown?

Re-wild a desolate cityscape in Overgrown! Combine water, sunlight, & earth to overgrow buildings with vibrant ecosystems, create specific element formations to attract wildlife to your newly lush city, and avoid the pollution left behind by humanity.

In this verdant tile-laying game, you and up to 3 of your friends are the forces of nature, attempting to transform polluted and abandoned cities into lush paradises brimming with wildlife. Each turn, players gather the elements needed to regrow flora and reintroduce fauna from a shared pool. Unfortunately, the elements are limited and mixed in with pollution so not every city will fully revive. 

Unlike other tile-laying games, you control the drafting pool not only by what you take, but also how you use it, giving you plenty to think about as your city slowly recovers. At the end of the game, the player with the most verdant city is declared the winner.

🦌 Key Features

Watch the City Come to Life!

Every board ends up looking different — and beautiful. Each detailed nature tile pops against the evocative city artwork, truly making the city your own. Attract unique wildlife standees to take refuge in the reclaimed ruins.

Beauty and Depth

Overgrown is as elegant as it is clever. Inspired by beloved match-3 games, Overgrown is quick to pick up, but adds a simple twist that makes each decision meaningful. As you spread nature across your city, you shape your friends' options while they shape yours.

Easy to Learn, Quick to Set Up, Endlessly Replayable

Overgrown can be set up in a couple minutes, and can be learned just as quickly! Variable set up ensures each game is unique, and a quick playtime will leave you eager for a rematch.

🪺 In The Box

☀️ How To Play

Setup is quick and easy!

• Each player takes a city board and the two matching Auras (selection windows)
• The central Aether is filled with tiles randomly pulled from the Recycle bag
• The Wildlife deck is shuffled and several cards are revealed
• Each player puts their smaller Aura on the Aether
• Put the tiles and Wildlife somewhere everyone can reach them

In Overgrown, players take turns adding tiles to their city until one player runs out of room. Each turn consists of a few simple steps:

Select a pair of tiles from any space surrounded by any color Aura. Some element pairs contain pollution which clogs up your city and makes it harder to re-wild.

Place the pair of tiles on any empty spaces in your city, but they must be placed side by side. Be careful to not leave single space islands in your city in order to keep your options open on future turns!

Move the Aura of your color to match the position of the tiles you just placed. Will you change how you place your tiles to limit your friends' options?

If you recreated any of the revealed Wildlife patterns, add Wildlife to your city on the tile indicated by the Wildlife card! 

Combine any adjacent sets of water, earth, and sunlight to Overgrow part of the city! Overgrown tiles can further combine to create Ecosystems that clean up Pollution! 

Once one player fills up their board, the game ends for everyone and the player with the most flourishing city wins!

🎮 Try Overgrown Today!

Overgrown is available on screentop.gg a free, browser based tabletop platform. Find it here!

Watch our preview video from Allies or Enemies!

⭐️ Praise for Overgrown

🌳 Pledge Levels

Base edition Overgrown includes punchboard tiles & auras, with a cotton Recycle Bag. Both base and Verdant Edition include wooden wildlife standees!

🧩 Add-Ons

Add even more variety to your games by adding on Wild Wasteland, a mini-expansion for Overgrown featuring new artwork by Andy Alves. 

Features:

• Tiles that add more room to your city
• Tiles that give you ways to save your skin after an unfortunate mistake
• Alternative pollution that's easier to clean up, but builds up at a much faster pace

Note: Artwork shown above are early drafts. The final artwork in Wild Wasteland will be original.

⛈️ Stretch Goals

📦 Shipping

Shipping costs vary depending on your location and may shift overtime. Your shipping costs will be calculated and collected after the end of our campaign, closer to our ship date.

A few weeks after the campaign closes you will receive an email from our pledge manager to confirm your pledge and shipping address.

Please be aware that the shipping rate estimates provided in the table above are only approximations (including stretch goals). Final charges for shipping and sales tax or VAT (where applicable) will be determined based on actual shipping costs incurred.

Shipping costs for the basic and verdant editions are the same. The Wild Wasteland mini-expansion does not affect shipping price.

Note: We cannot ship to Russia, Afghanistan, Ukraine, South America, Iran, Iraq, or Syria

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