Turn a modest tulip farm into a flourishing valley of colour.
A vibrant engine-building Eurogame with evolving action wheels and multiple paths to victory.
Plant tulips, improve your windmills and build a thriving farming business along the Dutch Bloemen Route.
Product Description
Step into the colourful tulip fields of the late 19th-century Netherlands. Inspired by the famous Bloemen Route, Windmill Valley places you in the role of a tulip farmer and entrepreneur working to create the most prosperous farm in the valley.
Rotate the interconnected wheels on your Windmill board to select actions, adjust the flow of water and shape your strategy. Visit the market for new tulip bulbs, plant colourful fields, build a connected network of windmills and improve your action wheels with useful enhancements.
Helpers provide ongoing abilities, while contracts create new scoring opportunities. As your windmill completes full rotations, the calendar advances towards the end of the game. When the season closes, the player with the most victory points wins.
Why you'll love it
- Evolving action system: Improve and change the actions available on your interconnected Windmill wheels.
- Grow colourful tulip fields: Collect and plant bulbs while planning rows and columns for final scoring.
- Build across the valley: Place Windmills to gain field rewards and develop connected routes from the market.
- Shape your own strategy: Hire Helpers, complete Contracts and choose from several scoring opportunities.
- Thoughtful resource management: Manage Guilder, Tulip Bulbs, Tools and the changing Water Level.
- Solo play included: Enjoy the game alone or compete with up to three other players.
- Rich table presence: Features custom wooden Windmills, colourful Tulip Bulbs and layered player boards.
Quick Details
- Publisher: Board & Dice
- Designer: Dani Garcia
- Artists: Pedro Codeço, Zbigniew Umgelter and Katarzyna Witos
- Product type: Strategy board game
- Players: 14
- Recommended age: 14 years and up
- Playing time: Approximately 4590 minutes
- Play style: Competitive with solo mode
- Game style: Medium-weight Eurogame
- Objective: Earn the most victory points through tulip fields, windmills, contracts and other scoring opportunities
- Theme: Dutch tulip farming and windmills
Contents
Includes the Main board, Farm boards, Windmill boards with interconnected action wheels, custom wooden Windmill tokens, player markers, Tulip Bulbs, Tool tokens, Wheel Enhancement tiles, Farm Enhancement cards, Foreign Trade cards, player aids and dedicated solo components.
Good to Know
- Changing action wheels: The actions available to you develop as new Wheel Enhancements are installed.
- Control the water speed: Adjusting the Floodgate determines how far the Action Wheels rotate.
- Several connected systems: Planting, market visits, foreign trade, windmill building and farm improvements all support different strategies.
- End-game planning matters: Contracts, completed tulip rows and columns, and emptied Windmill groups contribute to final scoring.
- Equal final turns: Once the end of the Calendar is reached, the current round is completed and every player receives one additional turn.
- Expert option: Experienced players may remove the additional final round for a tighter game.
- Assembly required: The Windmill boards must be assembled with the included pins before the first game.
