Llamaland, by Lookout Games, consists of blocky villagers, lots of colour, cocoa beans, potatoes, corn, tetris tiles, different heights and of course lots of llamas. Will you be able to move mountains and lead your llamas to great heights or will these woolly animals spit right in your face?
All players build their own llama land with the different terrain tiles. Each turn, they take one of the available tiles and place it on their land or on top of already placed tiles on their land. By laying tiles, the land grows larger and becomes more elevated but players also collect cocoa beans, corn and bean sprouts from the fields and squares they cover with terrain tiles. In addition to this llama food, villagers might also be unlocked by placing these terrain tiles. Villagers all have their own profession and provide additional actions that players can use during a turn.
With food, you can feed a llama. You take the top card of the type of llama (depending on the food they eat). These cards score points at the end of the game. If you feed a llama, you must also place a llama meeple on an empty space in your playing field. You cannot later build tiles over places where llamas are grazing. Therefore, you may have to wait a while before feeding a llama.
During your turn, you can also “bet” on one of the face-up goal cards. Achieving your goals scores points at the end of the game. Betting early means that you can earn more points, but all players will know which objectives you want to achieve. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins!
Llamaland is a simple tile laying game from the author of Berenpark. It is very colourful and suitable for the whole family. Because the game has a different combination of goals and llama, there is also enough variety in this light-hearted game.
