Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small

A good adaptation of the board game (All Creatures Big and Small, the smaller, 2 players version of Agricola, focused on animal husbandry). The interface works well, all is quick and clear. You can easily access the different screens and find information: your farm, the main board with the different actions (just click on them to see what they do), your adversary's farm. The tutorial is good. I also wanted to see the written rules, so I checked the board game manual on the net. For the moment, I'm still a beginner and I played against the AI (three levels of difficulty). The game is fun, not too difficult to learn, with interesting strategic possibilities. This adaptation is essentially the same than the mobile version (I think), including the extension. I just have minor nitpicks: it's written "tap" on the first screen, and there are no tooltips for the first menu buttons (at the beginning, I was wondering how to continue a game in progress - second button on the right). The graphics are nice enough, close to the board game, and the music and sound effects fit well with the theme.

Be careful: Artificially underrated game.
Most of players were expecting Agricola because they don't even know this 2-player version "All Creatures..." from 2012.
This is the port of the Mobile game.
Pros : Good adaptation of the game. Extension included. Online+Split screen.
Cons : Mobile interface (no work to adapt to mouse or controller)
Conclusion: to buy at 50% off if you already know another player.

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. :-)

Despite onlline boardgames generally have mixed feels, I think Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small stands out for being able to play the game without any problems while staying true to its game feels and mechanics.
These are my personal pros and cons:
Pros
- The game is simple enough to understand
- Automatically computes for the scores in-game
- Easy game navigation
- Graphics arent that demanding
- No bugs found in-game
- Feels like the boardgame, but kinda better
Cons
- Doesnt have an undo button before ending the turn as the turn automatically ends
- No Microphone feature to talk to someone in-game (I usually play with Discord on with friends. But with other people, its pretty hard and boring to play when you've got no one to talk to)
- They dont give you much info on the buildings and all their effects before committing so there are times where you play blindly
- Could use bots / better bots
Conclusion
- Its pretty good to be an online board game, however, like a board game, it gets pretty tiring when you play it again and again over a short span of time. I got it on sale (PHP 60/75) which is totally worth it. But for PHP 220, i wouldnt say it would be really worth it. So to play the baord game, both persons gotta own the game. For that price i'd rather buy the physical board game instead.

Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small is a great digital adaptation of the popular board game. This is a two player game about running a farm, breeding, and housing four different animal species. It plays over eight rounds. Area and resource management are key. One might consider this an engine building game but the end creeps up on you so abruptly that every round requires planning and targeted growth to win. You want animals to breed. You need a place to put those animals. You need a place to put their offspring. Every animal you don't have enough of at the end of the game is negative points. You can buy fence rails to expand your farm. There is depth to this game that you don't know is there at first.
The AI opponents are challenging, and the multiplayer mode allows you to play with others online. The game is easy to pick up and play, but offers enough depth to keep you engaged. If you're a fan of the board game or just enjoy resource/area management strategy games in general, Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small is definitely worth checking out. A small caveat: Multiplayer is mildly infuriating with how long it takes other people to take their turn. I believe the time limit is 24 hours...so it could potentially take SIXTEEN days to finish a game if both players took maximum time. The fast / speed queue has never worked for me.

This game is made with the same android style kit that the rest of the Rosenberg games are made with (controller, keyboard, mouse == pseudo-finger). It's not bulletproof, but it's a heck of a lot more robust than some reviews make it out to be. I would rate it as about double the reliability of the average browser game. I originally gave a bad review to Isle of Skye, having high expectations, but I've come to play that, this, and other Rosenberg games more than others, simply because these are the *only* broad-market (no "satan cards with grandma") alt boardgames on all of Steam with several ounces of ingenuity. The tutorial is pretty lean, but you can construe all that's necessary with a moment of focus, or a second time through. Quite a bit of effort goes into to formulating a single-finger average-double-integrity-than-the-average-web-game reforumlation-of-a-card-game pc game; So kudos to them for that.

A fantastic, smooth, adaptation of an amazing board game with support for Linux, Mac, and Windows.
Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small is one of legendary designer Uwe Rosenburg's better known games, and is well worth repeated play. This adaptation is a perfect translation of the board game to the screen, and I couldn't be more impressed.
My only complaint is that these developers don't have the licence for the full Agricola game, and haven't (yet!) adapted some of his other classics. I'd love to see At the Gates of Loyang, Ora et Labora, Caverna, or Glass Road here.