Ultimate Treehouse Review

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We review Ultimate Treehouse, a gateway level game published by Fat Brain Toy Company. In Ultimate Treehouse, players are tryin to earn the most points over the course of the game by building their treehouse.

At Gen Con this year, one of my games to check out was Ultimate Treehouse from Fat Brain Toy Company. For some reason, the treehouse theme really draws me in, with Best Treehouse Ever still getting plenty of table time despite being close to a decade old.

Ultimate Treehouse is a gateway/family-weight game for 2-4 players that takes about 45 to 60 minutes to play. It’s suitable for players ages 8+

The goal in Ultimate Treehouse is to earn the most victory points for your treehouse at the end of the game. Each round starts with a weather card being drawn, which may affect the costs of things you build that round. The upcoming weather card for next round is always face up, so you can plan ahead as well.

On your turn, you first draw an Action card. Then, you can optionally play an action card from your hand and/or build one or more elements into your treehouse. Each element has a specific place on your tree it needs to go, as well as a cost to build it (in resources) and the number of victory points it will score you.

Some elements will increase in the points they provide by building multiple copies of them. For example, if you build 3 tree swings, you are getting 11 points instead of just 3 points for one of them.

Then the next player takes their turn. Rounds go by in this manner until the weather deck is depleted. The player with the most points wins.

This is the first board game from Fat Brain Toy Company, which until now, primarily made toys. You can tell that the company has solid manufacturing experience because