Botany Floral Dragons - Fantastic Festival Expansion
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Your garden was already beautiful. Now there's a jury of dragons ready to judge it. And you want to win.
What it's about
The Gardening Festival is here. The judge dragons are too.
You've built your floral garden with care, patience, and perhaps a few too many adventurous expeditions. But there's one question you've never truly been able to answer: Is it the most beautiful? Fantastic Festival brings the answer to the table — and a jury of dragons ready to give it to you.
Fantastic Festival is the expansion that adds the Festival Gardening Competition to Botany: Floral Dragons. New judge dragons with their pawns, two new characters, garden wild tiles, and a quest system to complete to unlock festival minigames. The game you knew becomes a race.
If the base game is the story of a botanist building something beautiful, Fantastic Festival is the moment that beauty is measured — before an audience of floral dragons with very precise opinions on what makes a garden truly extraordinary.
From the game experience
There's something very fun about carefully building a garden and then finding out that the judge dragons have completely different criteria than you had in mind.
The secret of Fantastic Festival in one line
Quests transform every return to the estate into something more urgent — you're not just building, you're also trying to qualify for festival minigames before others do.
From the game experience
What it brings to the table
The new elements of Fantastic Festival
Judge dragons with pawns
New floral dragons as competition judges, each with their pawn. Their preferences change what's worthwhile to build in your garden — and whoever understands them before others has a real advantage.
Two new characters
Two new botanists enter the Botany: Floral Dragons universe, each with their specific abilities. More starting options mean more strategies to explore and more variety between games.
Garden wild tiles
New garden tiles with special features that adapt to different configurations. Wild tiles add flexibility to garden construction and open up combinations not available in the base game.
Quests and festival minigames
Complete quests during the expedition to unlock festival minigames upon return. It's an additional layer of objectives that changes priorities on the fly and makes each turn more meaningful.
Compatibility
Fantastic Festival is an expansion for Botany: Floral Dragons — the base game is required to play it. You can freely combine it with the other expansion Furious Fungus for the most complete Floral Dragons universe experience at the table.
You built your garden for yourself. Now build it to impress a jury of dragons. It's different — and it's much more fun.
Active Kickstarter campaign
Fantastic Festival is part of the Botany: Floral Dragons Kickstarter campaign, which is still active. By purchasing now on FroGames, you pre-order the expansion at the launch price.
The competition begins
What changes when the Festival arrives
Botany: Floral Dragons taught you how to build. Fantastic Festival asks you to compete. These are two different experiences — and this expansion brings them together so they enhance each other.
Judge dragons arrive at the festival
The Festival Gardening Competition is not judged by humans — floral dragons come. Each judge dragon has its own preferences, pawns, and criteria for evaluating the garden. Understanding what they want before your opponents is already half the victory.
🏆 New competitive mechanicQuests open up mini-games
During the expedition, you can complete specific quests. Each completed quest gives you access to a festival mini-game upon returning to the estate — an additional activity that can overturn scores and creates tense moments at the table.
🎪 Quest system + mini-gamesThe garden grows in new directions
The garden wild tiles and the two new characters open up strategies that the base game does not consider. You're not just adding content — you're expanding the space of available choices, making each game richer in variables.
✨ New characters and tilesChoose the right expansion
Fantastic Festival or Furious Fungus?
They are two expansions with opposite characters. Neither is better than the other — it depends on what you want to bring to the table.
Fantastic Festival
- Adds a competition — the Festival Gardening Competition with a dragon jury
- Festive and competitive tone — more interaction, more shared objectives
- Ideal for those who want more tension among players
- Quest and mini-game mechanics that layer over the basic structure
- Two new characters increase strategic variety
Furious Fungus
- Adds a threat — the corruption of the Pleurotus
- Dark and unpredictable tone — more chaos, more atmosphere
- Ideal for those who want more surprises in the game structure
- Corrupted dragons and fungal variables that destabilize plans
- Changes the atmosphere more than the mechanics
The two expansions are fully compatible with each other — you can use them together for the most complete experience of the Floral Dragons universe.
Frequently asked questions
FAQ about Fantastic Festival
Can I play it without Botany: Floral Dragons?
No. Fantastic Festival is a non-standalone expansion — it requires the base game Botany: Floral Dragons to function. If you are considering both, the mandatory starting point is the base game, which you can also find on FroGames.
How does the Festival Gardening Competition work?
The competition introduces judge dragons with their specific pawns and preferences. Players build their garden trying to meet the judge dragons' evaluation criteria, while completing quests to access festival mini-games. The basic structure of Botany: Floral Dragons remains unchanged — the Festival adds a competitive layer on top of it.
Is it compatible with Furious Fungus?
Yes. The two expansions are added to Botany: Floral Dragons independently and can be used together. Playing with both provides the most complete experience — the competition of the Festival is alongside the unpredictability of fungal corruption for a table much richer in variables.
Does it work well solo?
Yes. Fantastic Festival is compatible with the solo mode of Botany: Floral Dragons. In solo mode, the Festival Gardening Competition becomes a challenge against the criteria of the judge dragons — a structure of additional objectives that makes the solo game more complex and challenging.
Is it available in Italian?
This is the English edition, like the base game. The components follow the same visual style as Botany: Floral Dragons — those already familiar with the base game will find no further significant language barriers.
Botany: Floral Dragons – Fantastic Festival Expansion is an expansion for the strategic board game Botany: Floral Dragons for 1–5 players (ages 10+). Published by Dux Somnium Games with illustrations by Kin Wald. It adds the Festival Gardening Competition with judge dragons and their pawns, two new characters, garden wild tiles, and a quest system that unlocks festival mini-games. Non-standalone — requires Botany: Floral Dragons. Compatible with solo mode and with the Furious Fungus expansion. On Kickstarter. English edition. Available on FroGames.it.
Botany Floral Dragons - Fantastic Festival Expansion
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