COMING SOON! Red Leaf University

Welcome to campus, where every student is a woodland critter with big ambitions. In Red Leaf University you run a student association, sending your young scholars across six specialized campuses to recruit classmates, sharpen their skills, and rack up the credits that make one of them Valedictorian.

Every campus runs its own little minigame. Art has you collecting paint tokens to create works of art, Science has you laying tiles, and others push you along tracks or bring new recruits through the door. Students level up from 1 to 3 and finally to Master, and a Master can slip onto a crowded space without paying the usual Varsity Patches. Over five rounds, the real puzzle is chaining those abilities together.

It comes from Adrian Adamescu, co-designer of Sagrada, and Florin Purluca. Real euro depth, rules that don't fight you, and art cozy enough to win over the friend who swears they don't like "heavy" games.

• 1 to 4 players, ages 12+, about 60 to 90 minutes
• Worker placement and set collection, and it plays solo too
• Six campuses, each with its own minigame, so no two rounds feel the same
• Illustrated by Sylvain Leroy
• Includes: rulebook, Study Buddy token, 4 student association boards, 8 scholarship tiles, 12 tracking discs, 16 student tokens, 48 paint tokens, 48 science tiles