2021 · Fantasy
Merchants Cove: The Dragon Rancher
Players run a multi-generational dragon ranch, managing young dragons that need specific food, space to grow, and constant maintenance. Gameplay mixes bag-building with a mancala-style placement system: players draw food tokens from a bag and place them onto a personal board one by one to create feeding trails. As food is placed, hatchlings follow the trails and grow, changing their needs and value; feed management, barn layout, and growth sequencing determine success. The game emphasizes engine development through token circulation, spatial planning on the ranch board, and timing of growth actions.
- Players
- 1–5 best 2
- Playing time
- 60–90 min
- Age
- 14+
- Complexity
- 2.8 / 5
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Full stats in Ludoya- 2
- Plays logged
- 7
- Players
- 3h 18m
- Average play
- 31
- In collections
- 2
- On wishlists
- 1
- Pre-ordered
8.5/10
from 4 Ludoya reviews
Free, on web, Android and iOS
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