Find Your Next Favorite Game
No reviews. No fluff. Just side-by-side facts — you decide.
These two get compared constantly because they're both card-driven games starring cute woodland critters — and they're often the first "next step" recommendation for each other. But they play nothing alike. Dale of Merchants is a tight deck-building race where you're trying to shed cards, not collect them. Everdell is a worker-placement engine builder where you're constructing a village tableau over four seasons. One fits in a backpack and plays in 20 minutes. The other needs a dining table and an hour. Different designers, different publishers, wildly different weight classes — connected only by their shared love of charming forest animals.
- 120 cards across 6 animal decks
- Cardboard market board
- Wooden stall markers
- Compact box — everything fits in your hand, no minis, no excess
- Adds all decks from Dale of Merchants 2 and 3
- Massively expands variety and replayability
- 128 Critter and Construction cards
- Wooden workers and resource tokens
- Cardboard victory point tokens
- Shared board with worker placement spots
- Metal coins and resource tokens
- Occupation tiles
- The iconic Ever Tree — 3D cardboard centerpiece that holds cards and seasons tracker
- Pearlbrook — river board, pearls, adornments, frog ambassador
- Spirecrest — big critter minis, weather cards, discovery mechanic
- Bellfaire — unique player powers, 5-6 player support
- Table presence scales dramatically by edition
Six new animalfolk decks — Experimenting Platypuses, Diligent Sloths, Intimidating Dwarf…
Standalone compatibleSix more animalfolk decks including Sharing Short-beaked Echidnas who borrow cards from other…
Standalone compatibleThe big box. Eight completely new animalfolk decks plus the major Animalfolk Characters mechanic —…
Standalone compatibleA new River side board, Pearls as a new resource, and a Frog Ambassador worker. Pearls are used to…
The heaviest Everdell expansion. Three interlocking systems: Weather Cards that impose seasonal…
Bumps player count to 5-6. Adds asymmetric player powers — each player gets unique abilities.…
A Train Station board with Train Car tiles that deliver resources, Ticket tiles for travel actions,…
A cooperative and solo mode for 1-2 players featuring Nightweave — an AI spider villain trying to…