Viticulture Essential Edition

About

Viticulture Essential Edition is a strategy game where you manage a vineyard in pre-modern Tuscany. Each turn you assign workers and visitors to seasonal tasks like planting vines, building structures, and fulfilling wine orders. The game spans multiple seasons with different available actions, and completing tasks often depends on being the first to act. As you expand your land and resources, you compete with others to become the top winery in the region. Runs on PC, Mac, and Linux with single player, multiplayer, and split screen options. Based on Jamey Stegmaier’s board game, it keeps the strategic depth of the original with streamlined digital controls. The seasonal shifts and competitive worker placement offer varied gameplay, bringing the board game’s strategic challenge to digital with smooth controls. A fan-favorite adaptation with a 90% positive rating on Steam, it’s ideal for players who enjoy careful planning and economic management.

Storyline

This is the official digital adaption of the boardgame Viticulture by Jamey Stegmaier & Alan Stone. You find yourself in rustic, pre-modern Tuscany, where you’ve inherited a meager vineyard. You own a few plots of land, an old crush pad, a tiny cellar, 3 workers…and the dream of owning the best winery in Italy. Your job is to allocate your workers and helpful visitors to complete various tasks throughout the year. Each season is different on a vineyard, so the workers have different tasks they can take care of in the summer and winter. There’s competition over those tasks, and often the first worker to arrive at each one has an advantage over the rest. Using those workers and visitors, you can expand your vineyard by building structures, planting vines, and filling wine orders as you work towards the goal of owning the most successful winery in Tuscany.