Is Agricola fun?

It's board game time! Let's all simulate living hand-to-mouth in 17th century plague-ridden central Europe! Agricola has a somewhat dire theme and a LOT of moving parts. Is it actually any fun?

The version depicted here is by Z-Man games, but you can shop for the revised version from Mayfair using this link (and we'll get a small commission!)

[aditmaryadi]

Just found out your channel. I love how you describe all the things here because I intended to buy Agricola and also your clear tutorial about some other games on your channel. Thumbs up!

[chinacharltan]

Your presentation is brilliant! Keep them coming. Would like to see some of your top 10 lists!

[pablogfmovil]

Just my two cents: the name is "weird" in English. But if you speak French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and a whole lot of other languages, "Agricola" sounds cristal clear. In Spanish for example, Agricola is literally translated as "Agrícola". So pretty much no need to know Latin, just not being Anglo-Saxon is required :)

[Janjan-pv]

Not very agree to “bad drawings”.
The illustrations some how give a historical feeling to me, like the 90s bad drawing bedtime stories. And I actually thought agricola was a game designed 50 years ago! 😂
Btw love your video ❤ helped me a lot

[rybosomes]

Ahh. A little something I refer to as "Angry-cola"

[Bryan-ml]

omg im so glad you did put 'the pressure' in the 'fun' category rightafter being not fun haha i love it

[hollandcoleman]

Bro, these are your best videos! Great review format. Keep 'em coming

[diro]

Well, “agrícola” in Spanish is also the word for everything something farm related and the kind of activity developed in farms. So for me it wasn’t strange.
Good vid!

[johnhoang]

I love the theme, mostly because I love history.

[MegaMuffinManX]

I love your channel! And your game collection!

[VoiceofFox]

I know art is subjective but I love Klemens Franz’s artwork so much that I’m more likely to buy a game that features it. It adds so much charm and character to Agricola in particular, that the game could appear deathly dull and dry otherwise. It definitely adds a level of fun to games. The LOOK of Agricola makes me want to play it.

[tomkot]

The theme sounds like someone made an obvious joke but it was interpreted by the game maker as a serious suggestion

[mohammadmashaka]

Love this video. Great seeing comedy integrated with board games! Should love to see this more often.

[Statonary]

losing points? why is this a segment? never happened to me

[sallysmiles]

Actually the theme is what drew me in! I went to school for agriculture 😅

[shortydancer]

I know you rag on Klemes Franz. He’s done some of my favorite games. But I just got Agricola and have gone through the occupation cards, and I now see why you do. The art on those card suck. Reminds me of those games in the West Kingdom line.

[ryanhamstra]

The revised version is way prettier, so the artwork is a fun now 👍

[PlumpyThimble]

Oh man, I love that pressure, but my wife is not a fan of it. We both love the game.

[b.]

Oh dear, we just started playing Agricola and I can ´t decide whether to hate or like the game… I think I ´m more on the I-hate-it-side 😮 The artwork is terrible, but you should see the artwork on „Glasroad“ - it ´s even worse🤢 though in order of the mechanics I like Glasroad better.

[arthursimsa]

« Agricole » means « agricultural », « farming-related » in Romance languages. Nothing to do with Cola. I’m surprised English speakers are confused. The name is legit for anyone with a knowledge of a few European languages.