Pre-orders are now live for Darrington Press’ latest board game, Solar Gardens. The tabletop publishing arm of Critical Role’s latest project is a strategic, tile-placement board game set in a solarpunk sci-fi city where building a garden helps build sustainable energy for the future.
The Solar Gardens Pre-Order Announcement
According to a press release, Solar Gardens is a tile-drafting board game that brings players into a utopian future. One where you transform city rooftops into verdant, sustainable gardenscapes with a combination of renewable energy and imaginative design.
Solar Gardens is designed for 2-5 players. A single game takes about 30-45 minutes to complete. Players take turns drafting and placing tiles on a map. Each tile represents greenery, solar panels, turbines, rainwater collectors, cultural hubs, and more. Players must strategically place these tiles to boost energy production, biodiversity, and aesthetic appeal, to create a living rooftop ecosystem.
Each playthrough of the game introduces new challenges. It encourages both competitive and casual players to experiment with different strategies in each game. If you want to play out the fantasy of building a beautiful future, or just want to beat your friends in landscaping, this game provides.
Solar Gardens was designed by Eric Slauson (MonsDrawsity, Kaiju Haiku) and Alex Cutler (Skate Summer, A Place for All My Books) and illustrated by Daniel Clarke. Echoing its overt environmentalist themes, the game is produced with biodegradable, plastic-free materials and will use paper stickers to hold its contents together in transit.
Lastly, each copy of the game sold will help fund reforestation in US national parks through the National Forest Foundation’s Sapling Program.
Solar Gardens is the latest tabletop game published by Darrington Press, joining a catalog of critically acclaimed, bestselling products including Queen By Midnight, the gaslamp fantasy RPG Candela Obscura, and the runaway fantasy TTRPG hit, Daggerheart.
The game is available for pre-order at an MSRP of $44.99. It is set to release on July 31.
