Pergola Game Review

Turning Over a New Leaf

Back at PAX Unplugged 2024, my husband, Brock, and I got lucky to sit down for an early sneak peek at Pergola from Rebel Studios. Though we only got to spend about twenty minutes with it, I have been looking forward to getting my hands on a review copy to put it through its paces. It probably speaks to my excitement that Pergola took less than an hour and a half to go from my front porch steps to being on the table, ready to play.

At its core, Pergola is a simple set collection game that takes place over fifteen turns. On your turn, you will select from one of four possible actions, gaining resources as indicated and then either moving insects around your garden, collecting a leaf to gain more resources, moving a water droplet down a cascading waterfall, or hopping your frog around on different lily pads to claim more resources. There are roughly a dozen different resource types to keep track of, and while it can be overwhelming, they all combine towards your endgame scoring. Hollyhocks score for each set of three you collect, butterflies score for how high you’ve stacked your hollyhocks vertically, etc. While I won’t go over every permutation of scoring, suffice it to say that each…

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