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Agricola is a very good two player game and I like it very much. It is a low priced game that could entertain you for hours and hours in competative game play or just a few minutes per game to beat the AI or your best friend. It´s up to you.

"Agricola: All Creatures Big and small" is a good port from the board game to the digital world. Digidiced did it well to stay close to the original board game from Uwe Rosenberg. The game introduce you in the famers life by build up stables and pastures to gather and breed different animals. All rescourses living and natural have to be chosen wisely step by step as there is an opponent farmer on the other side of the fence that will go for their own good or constrain you in your effort to get your farm up and running. Watch out carefully what he is doing on the other side or follow up our own plan to win the match.

The game itself is divided in 3 steps per round and 8 rounds per game where you are able to choose to pick from different rescourses like wood and stone and wool or grassland or animals for breeding. Just a few samples - there are more available - you will figure them out easilly by playing the game. If you are stuck you could as well read the tutorial.

It could be played against another player in ranking style or by free game just to enjoy it. Matches against other players could be played right away in direct play or asynchron what will give you the time to play it over the day in any break or by free time in between. I really like this possibility!
You could play as well against 1 of 3 different AI´s from easy to difficult. If you are a rookie in the game the difficult AI will challenge you in different ways and tactics. Watch out what it is doing.

The game is including the first addon what give you the possibility to play with more than a dozen different buildings (4 by each game which you could choose by pick upfront or randomly by surprise) to bring up new tactics and possibilities.

The upside down of the game could be this asynchron play type that you could choose. Some people would like the way to play a handfull or more games simultaneously and are able to do it that way others won´t. I don´t think that it interfere the quality of the game itself what is really high and very well.

Just my two cents. Hope this review help you and I see you around for a farmers challenge. :-)