Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
BarBEARia is a wondrous land filled with adventure, joy, and fur. While bears happily gather honey or laze the day away, they also seek out noble deeds and heroic actions.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Area Majority
Compete to have the strongest presence in areas that award control or points.
Deduction
Combine clues and exclusions to identify hidden information.
Dice Rolling
Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Income
Receive recurring resources according to your position, assets, or development.
Different Dice Movement
Different dice govern the movement of different pieces or groups.
Read the full game description
BarBEARia is a wondrous land filled with adventure, joy, and fur. While bears happily gather honey or laze the day away, they also seek out noble deeds and heroic actions. Each village will sing of this glory to impress the other villagers for years to come. In this 2-6 player game, every bear village must maximize these deeds and actions each season before winter hiBEARnation. As the bear elder, you must instruct the bears in your village on these deeds! Each season consists of three turns that elders take simultaneously. First, roll your bear dice behind your village screen – keeping your bear plans secret from the other villages. Then give your bears their assignments using the different spaces on your village board, but be careful because only bears with matching skills can be assigned to the same space. Finally, in the order they appear on the village mat, each bear goes out to face their particular task! Glory is earned in many ways, most of which require gathering resources like honey and ore. Bears can also draft new bears into their village to gain more bear dice or hire mercenary bears for a single turn. Bears can raid nearby villages or defend their own home if they think the other villages may try and attack! Bears also love to adventure – but they have to beware of rival bears beating them to the punch! Once winter ends, the game ends, and the village that has accumulated the most glory is the victor of Tales of BarBEARia! Thanks for BEARing with me and PAWSing to read this, even if this summary is quite emBEARassing! Grab this game FURiously and forgive these unBEARable jokes. Now get your BEARings and look for a good BEARgain, and it’s PAWSible you’ll love this game!