Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Easier to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Light strategy
Luck-sensitive
How it plays
How does it play?
Draw a chunky wooden token, choose its blue sea or white shore face, trigger its ecosystem effect, and build the tallest stack before the bag empties.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Read the full game description
Seaside is a tactile set-collection game played entirely with illustrated wooden tokens. On your turn, draw one token from the cloth bag, secretly examine both sides, choose the face you want, and apply its effect. Blue faces enter the shared sea and let you draw again; white faces settle into your personal seaside and end your turn. The tiny ecosystem quickly develops useful connections: sandpipers gather isopods, beaches attract shells, paired rocks collect crabs, and waves flip beaches as the shoreline changes. Because the shared sea can become a tempting pool of points, every draw asks whether to push for another token or secure the result already in front of you. When the bag empties, everyone stacks their collected tokens, and the tallest seaside wins. The waterproof wooden pieces and storage bag make it unusually portable without sacrificing interaction.
