Designed by Katie Tam | Illustrated by Lisala Halapua
1-5 players | 10 minutes per player | Ages 10+
Forage and craft plants into bottles to make the best potions and become the most reputable apothecary in Wildcrafters – an easy-to-learn, puzzly card game with engine building, pattern matching and set collection!
In Wildcrafters, you're a budding apothecary competing to craft potions by foraging and filling each of your three bottles with their preferred plants to gain the most reputation before the Harvest ends, while racing to be first to create and label your very own one-of-a-kind potions for bonus reputation!
The game is played over two seasons, Spring and Harvest, with the game ending when there are no more plant cards left in the players' hands. Plants begin to bloom in Spring, while they flourish and are plentiful during the Harvest – so be sure to have enough plant knowledge and materials to forage and craft when the season changes!
During the game, you take turns to explore the meadow for herbs, flowers and berries by placing plant cards – pattern matching the various types of plants along the way to help them mature so they can be foraged, while gaining the knowledge you’ll need for crafting potions. Strategically orientate and slot foraged plant cards into your unique, cut-out bottles for those end game points, all the while building an engine of excess plant materials around your workshop that will come in handy when foraging and studying in future turns. At the end of the Harvest, the player with the most reputation wins!
Artistically-immersed in intricate ink drawings and watercolours, Wildcrafters transport players to a beautiful, thematic world with deep, rewarding puzzles and various modules – from a budding apprentice to skilled apothecary – for high replayability.
**Wildcrafters is the winner of the 2025 Ion Award and a finalist in the 2025 Card Board Edison Award.**