Harmonies: My Favorite Mechanism

Jamey discusses his favorite mechanism in the pattern-completion game, Harmonies.
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[@geoffreyhawley503]

I bought this game and played it (solo) 9× in the first 48 hours. Such a delight! I love the look of it, the chunky discs, the placement strategies, and the theme.

[@halojill4937]

I totally bought this based on thinker/themers review!

[@VikingKittens]

This has become a favourite of mine, and my gaming cafe group are also big fans. Bit of a surprise hit for sure!

[@helenslater3129]

I haven't played Harmonies but it's reminding me a little bit of a print & play game called "Floodlands". Floodlands is not 3-dimensional like Harmonies, but you can score combos with overlapping features. For example, if two Mills are next to the SAME field, BOTH Mills will score from that one field. It feels satisfying to score in this way.

[@jameystegmaier]

Thanks, Helen! I backed Floodlands and need to play it. :)

[@KeepersofFun]

I'm not sure why this game is often compared to Cascadia; it feels more similar to Tiny Towns to me.

[@jameystegmaier]

I can see a little of both, but more of Cascadia. Cascadia is a natural habitat-building, pattern completion, hex-based game, just like Harmonies--that's a lot of overlap. Tiny Towns features simultaneous actions in a town where all players are placing the same type of token in a grid for match-3 completions; none of those elements are found in Harmonies.

[@ReclaimedDasein]

Really great, also, don't say "you go deep in to the animal. "
Just sayin'.
Keep up your amazing work.

[@moravskyvrabec]

Interesting...the first thing I thought was, "Harmonies vs. Cascadia?" That's been commented on elsewhere on the web already and I was glad to find that they play differently. I love this type of game...I always take Reef w/ me to people's houses but they always pick something else to play!

[@jameystegmaier]

I agree that they're different, and there's something about claiming the goals in Harmonies as your own (and pursuing each of them several times) that I personally found more fun than the shared goals in Cascadia. I think both are really nice habitat-building games, though.