About the game

Grow, trim, and shape your topiaries to create the most chic shrub display in the annual Garden Party. Rise above the competition by filling your garden with well-crafted and thoughtfully planned arrangements. A matching garden will bring extra points, but both the judges and this year’s theme hold a lot of sway. Will your garden take shape, or get lost in the weeds?


In this 2-4 player tile drafting game, players take turns drafting shaped shrub-tiles into their garden in order to construct specific topiary shapes. They score points by having matching shrubs, creating sculptures, and wooing the local judges. After 12 months of careful planning have come to an end, the Garden Party will commence and the player with the most points is crowned the chicest garden in town!

A full game set up on Table Top Simulator.

Where to access the game

Shrubs is unpublished, but we do have a copy that is available to playtest. We are located in Ann Arbor, Michigan so all playtests in the near future will be in that area. We are working on a Table Top Simulator version for those that would like to play it online. 

Photos

Players can shape their shrubs into different statues that score them bonus points. The classics are used in every game as well as one other set chosen by players or at random. 

Each Judge scores your garden by their own set of rules. Make sure to impress them for tons of extra points!