Vicious Gardens at a Glance
- The hit card game that SURPASSED $1/2 MILLION on Kickstarter!
- Vicious Gardens is contemporary and distinctive. The "cozy" artwork is eyecatching and immersive.
- With its easy-to-learn mechanics, fast-paced turns, and reasonable playtimes, Vicious Gardens appeals to both casual and seasoned gamers alike.
- Vicious Gardens delivers on player choice and the gratification of achieving strategic objectives. Turns rarely feel scripted, avoiding predictability, and the game's intensity escalates towards the finale, marked by exhilarating point swings.
The World of Vicious Gardens
Vicious Gardens is the hit card game that combines the joy of gardening with the thrill of being a total jerk. Strategically cultivate your garden, harvest eccentric plants, and sabotage your neighbors in a "cozy" cut-throat competition.
Cultivate Quirky & Beautiful Plants: Grow and harvest eccentric plants such as Fuzzlesquash, Spotted Bildge, or Floofberry in your garden. Over 70 uniquely named and illustrated plants are guaranteed to captivate and entertain — even if your neighbor ends up stealing them!
Employ an Eccentric Cast of Specialists: Vicious Gardens has a unique cast of specialists ready to sabotage your opponents and help your garden flourish: Wormsworth, Beebeard, the Curmudgeon, and many more. Use these Specialists to obtain garden upgrades and Victory Cards. But beware, your competition can hire their own Specialists.
Harvest for Victory Cards: Obtain special abilities by harvesting your plants to attain Victory Cards, too. Adding Victory Cards such as Carnivorous Plants and Gnudist Gnomes are your surest way to victory. Once a gardener has accumulated three Victory Cards in their garden, the End of the Season (a.k.a. end of the game) begins!
Gameplay Basics
Manage your garden's plots while inhibiting your neighbor’s through devious subterfuge. Every playthrough provides different upgrades and abilities that keeps each experience fresh. There is no room for mercy in Vicious Gardens.
Turns follow a straightforward process that is quick to learn, while cards are thoughtfully designed with clear typography, icons, and visual cues. Engaging point-swings add drama and excitement right up to the very end. Games are quick, so you won’t have to wait long to plot your revenge.
The Art of Vicious Gardens
Ross Bruggink is an award-winning illustrator and designer who recently designed the State Seal of Minnesota. An avid gardener, husband, and bona fide dad, here is his description of the design process:
Vicious Gardens began with the goal of combining my two loves: design and gardening. Nearly three years later, I'm proud to share Vicious Gardens, a beautifully stylish and rigorously play-tested tabletop game with a wickedly delightful premise.
The style of Vicious Gardens
is distinct and fresh, introducing a new aesthetic to the tabletop
category. Its bold, graphic style feels relevant and accessible for
casual gamers while offering something new to those with extensive game
catalogs. I paid special attention to typography, icons, and the use of color. The graphic artwork is expressive and varied, yet it provides repetition and simplicity that reduces visual fatigue. This style shines through the 80 unique plants (we have more to illustrate!), cast of wonky
characters, functional and witty game board, and the beautifully intriguing Kickstarter exclusive slip sleeve.
I cannot wait for you to play Vicious Gardens with friends and family. I love nothing more than hearing people admire the illustrations, laugh at the quirky plants and specialists, or chuckle in playful delight while sabotaging their friends. 😈 It's been a long journey, with untold hours poured into the art and playtesting. I am extremely proud and excited to share Vicious Gardens with you!
-Ross Bruggink
