Keyflower
2012 · 2-6 Players · ~90-120 min · Competitive
Keyflower's fusion of auction bidding and worker placement creates a uniquely tense experience where your meeples serve double duty as both currency and labor, forcing constant trade-offs between securing new tiles and actually using them. The four-season structure provides a natural rhythm, the ability to use opponents' tiles adds meaningful interaction, and the game scales beautifully from two to six players. It takes a game or two for the systems to click, but once they do, Keyflower reveals itself as one of the most cleverly interlocked euros of the 2010s.