Harmonies
Harmonies
Harmonies

Asmodee

Harmonies

ITA

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Not suitable for children under 3. Small parts, choking hazard.

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The FroGames card

Choose three tiles from the central area. Stack them to create elevations. Complete a pattern and place a deer. Then look at the board and realize you've just built a valley you didn't know you were designing.

PuzzleLibelludMeditative
👥 Players 1–4
⏱️ Duration 30–45 min
🎂 Age 10+
🏢 Publisher Asmodee
⚖️ Weight Medium-light (2.0)
🎲 Mechanic Pattern building
The formulaTile placement × open draft × pattern matching✋ Only here: Animals that inhabit completed patterns

WHAT IT IS

A nature puzzle where you build ecosystems and populate habitats

Johan Benvenuto (designer) and Maëva da Silva (illustrations) bring an abstract puzzle dressed in an environmental theme to Libellud. Released in 2024, Harmonies is a demonstration of how simple mechanics can generate interesting decisions without weighing down the table.

Each turn you choose three colored terrain tiles from the common area, place them on your personal board (even stacking them to create elevations), and if you complete the patterns required by your Animal cards you can place fauna cubes. The player who builds the most harmonious and populated landscape wins. The game flows quickly, the rules are explained in 10 minutes, but the combinations are endless.

What they say abroad

"A delightful puzzle where every choice reshapes your landscape in unexpected ways."

A delightful puzzle where every choice reshapes your landscape in unexpected ways.

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Harmonies takes half an hour to play but leaves you wanting to play again immediately. It is rare to find a puzzle that is so immediate and so deep at the same time.

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FroGames
FrogScore · frogames.business

Harmonies

Strategy
The experience
MeditativeSatisfyingRelaxing
For whom
🎲Family game
🌱Gateway
🎯Experts
🍕Party
In summary
Why we like it: it is a puzzle that does not punish, gives satisfaction with every placement and has extremely high replayability thanks to the always different cards. Flaws but not deal-breakers: those looking for strong interaction or moments of competitive tension will find it too quiet, and the Animal card patterns require a few games to memorize well.
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Solo mode · Official ★★★★☆

The game includes official solo rules, where you compete against yourself for the highest score. The experience is complete: draft, building, pattern matching work identically. The only thing missing is the competition for the best tiles, but it remains an excellent puzzle for a quiet evening.

FroGames FrogScore · FroGames editorial review · based on rules, international reviews and play sessions

What you find in the box

The components that build your landscapes

🟩

Terrain Tiles

Colored hexagons (mountain, forest, field, meadow, water) that you draft and place on the board. You can stack them to create multi-level elevations and unlock vertical patterns.

🦌

Animal Cards

Each card shows a terrain pattern to complete on your board. When you create it, you place an animal cube. The more you complete, the more points you earn. Limit of 4 cards in hand.

🌿

Nature Spirit Cards (optional)

Advanced variant: each player chooses a Spirit with a pattern to complete. Once activated, the Spirit grants a permanent effect that changes your way of playing.

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Personal board

Your play area, where you build the landscape. It starts empty and fills up turn after turn. Elevations give bonus points, but only if adjacent to at least one other elevation.

Ask Froggy about the rules
Froggy has read the rulebook: rules, turns, setup. Ask, then dig deeper.
Already answered by Froggy (25)
How do you win Harmonies?
The player with the most points at the end of the game wins, adding up the Landscapes built on the board (Trees, Mountains, Fields, Buildings, Water) and Animal cards. Each card is worth the score of the highest space you have cleared of cubes. (Game Objective; Calculating the score)
What does a turn look like?
You must take the 3 discs from one space on the central board and place them on your board. Additionally, you can take one Animal card (once per turn) and place as many Animal cubes as you want, if you have recreated their Habitats. Then the central board is restocked. (Turn of play)
How long does a turn last?
The rulebook doesn't specify times. From the rules it's clear that it's brief: you choose a space, put 3 discs and possibly take a card and place a few cubes. Usually people talk about a minute or two. (Turn of play)
When does the game end?
It ends when the central board needs to be restocked and the bag is empty, or when someone ends their turn with 2 or fewer open spaces. In either case, the round is completed, so all players take the same number of turns. (End of the game)
What happens in case of a tie?
The player who placed the most Animal cubes on their board wins. If it's also tied there, the victory is shared. (End of the game)
What changes with 2 players?
Nothing in the rules: the same side of the central board is used, with 5 spaces and 5 cards. From the rules it's clear that with 2 players there's less contention over discs and cards, so more control. (Setup)
Can you play solo?
Yes. You use the Solo side of the central board with 3 spaces and 3 revealed cards; each turn the remaining 6 discs are discarded. The goal is to get as many suns as possible based on your score, with bonuses for side A and for the type of Nature Spirit. (Solo Mode)
How much does luck matter?
Some: the discs come out randomly from the bag and the cards from a face-down deck. However, you always choose between 5 groups of discs and 5 revealed cards, and you decide where to put everything. From the rules it's clear that it's a medium amount of randomness, very manageable. (Setup; Turn of play)
Is there interaction between players?
Little and only indirect: each player builds on their own board. However, you can take the disc space or Animal card that another player needed, and whoever fills their board ends the game for everyone. (Turn of play; End of the game)
Is it replayable? What changes each game?
The discs drawn change, the order of the 32 Animal cards and therefore the Habitats to build change. You can play on side A (River) or B (Islands) of the board and add the 10 Nature Spirit cards, which give different additional objectives. (Setup; Nature Spirit Cards)
Do players have different powers?
No, everyone starts identical and uses the same side of the board. The only difference comes with the Nature Spirit cards: each player chooses one of two and gets a personal way to score points at the end of the game. (Setup; Nature Spirit Cards)
How much table space do you need?
The rulebook doesn't say. From the setup you can infer: central board, bag, 5 cards and deck in the center, plus for each player one board with up to 4 cards on top. Plan roughly a table of about 70×90 cm for 4 players. (Setup)
What's in the box?
A bag, the central board, 4 player boards, 4 reminder cards and 120 discs in six colors. Then 66 Animal cubes, 4 Nature Spirit cubes, 32 Animal cards, 10 Nature Spirit cards, the score pad and the rulebook. (Components)
How do you stack discs?
You only stack to do three things: Mountains (gray up to 3), Buildings (one red on top of a brown, gray or red) and Trees (green on top of 0, 1 or 2 browns). Blue and yellow go only on empty spaces, and you never put a disc under other discs or on top of a cube. (How to place a disc)
What are Animal cards for?
Each card shows a small scheme of discs, the Habitat. When you recreate it on your board you move a cube from the card to the indicated space, freeing up points. You can hold a maximum of 4 uncompleted cards. (Taking 1 Animal card; Description of an Animal card)
Can you rotate the Habitat?
Yes, the pattern can be oriented in any direction, as long as the shape is exact. The heights of Trees and Mountains must match exactly those drawn. (Placing 1 Animal cube)
If I cover a disc with another one, does the cube already placed get removed?
No: the placement of a cube is permanent even if the Habitat is no longer there, for example by putting a red on a gray. Remember however that you can never place a disc on a space that has a cube on top of it. (Placing 1 Animal cube)
Can one disc count for multiple Habitats?
Yes, a single disc can be part of multiple Habitats, identical or different. The only thing that matters is that the space where the cube goes is free: one cube per space. (Placing 1 Animal cube)
What's the most convoluted rule?
Probably the Buildings score: they're worth 5 only if the spaces around show at least 3 different colors, looking only at the top disc and counting red too. Otherwise they're worth zero. Following are the River, measured along the shortest path, and Mountains, which are worth nothing if isolated. (Scoring: Buildings, River, Mountains)
How do you count Water points?
It depends on the side. On side A only your best River counts, measured along the shortest path: 2, 5, 8, 11, 15 points and then +4 for each disc beyond the sixth. On side B each area separated by blue discs is an Island worth 5 points, and you always have at least one. (Scoring: Water)
Is it worth making one big yellow Field?
No: each group of at least 2 adjacent yellows is worth 5 points, no matter how big it is. A group of 4 or more is always worth only 5. The rulebook recommends small separate groups. (Scoring: Fields)
If I don't complete an Animal card do I lose points?
No penalty: the card is worth the number of the highest space still without a cube. If you never placed a cube on it, it's worth 0, but it still takes up one of the 4 slots until you complete it. (Scoring: Animal cards)
What are Nature Spirit cards?
They are an advanced variant: you receive 2 cards, keep 1 and put a cube on it to place like an Animal. If you manage it, at the end of the game it gives you extra points according to its rule, for example for groups of yellow discs. Until you complete it, it counts in the limit of 4 cards. (Nature Spirit Cards)
Can I place cubes in the middle of placing discs?
Yes: optional actions can be taken at any time during the turn, even between one disc and another. In the example, Serena places a Fennec after the first disc, two others after the second and a Shrew after the third. (Taking and placing discs; Example of a turn)
From which space on the card do I take the cube?
Always from the lowest one. This way the card's points go up as you empty it, and when you remove the last cube the card is completed and goes next to the board. (Placing 1 Animal cube)
Froggy answers by reading the publisher's official rulebook, in the edition we have today. It can make mistakes: when in doubt, the manual in the box always wins. Spotted an error? Hit 👎 and tell us.
🎲How to playThe rules in four steps▼

How to play

The flow of each turn

Each turn has three simple and quick phases. After a few rounds, it becomes automatic.

1
Choose 3 terrain tiles

Take one of the 9 available sets from the central area. Each set contains 3 colored terrain tiles (mountain, forest, field, meadow, water). You cannot split the set.

2
Place the tiles on your board

Place the 3 tiles on your personal board, respecting the hexagonal grid. You can overlap them to create multi-level terrain. Terrain features earn bonus points if adjacent to other terrain features.

3
Optional: draw an Animal card

If you want to (and have fewer than 4 cards in hand), draw a new Animal card from the common deck. Each card shows a pattern to complete on your board.

4
Optional: place Animal cubes

If you have completed one or more patterns from your Animal cards, place the corresponding cubes on the patterns. Each card has a limited number of cubes: when you run out, the card is set aside and counts toward the final score.

⏱️Your first gameThe play-by-play, moment by moment▼

A game in five moments

What happens at the table

Not the rules. The experience.

0′

Setup and first cards

You draw the first two Animal cards, choosing which patterns to try to complete. The central area fills with 9 sets of tiles. Someone starts planning, someone chooses randomly. No one yet knows what shape their board will take.

⏱ 0–5 minutes
9′

First overlaps

You start overlapping tiles to create multi-level mountains. The first terrain feature is worth nothing if isolated, but you already have in mind where to put a second one. The others look at your board and understand what you are building.

🏔️ Vertical construction
18′

Patterns completed

You place the first animal cube on a completed pattern. The satisfaction is immediate. Then you look at the other three cards in hand and realize that pattern also covers part of another: double points with one move.

🦌 First inhabitants
31′

Competitive draft

Someone takes the only set with the forest tiles you needed. You have to fall back on plan B, but discover it opens a path you hadn't seen. The puzzle adapts, it never really blocks you.

🎯 Change of strategy
43′

Final count

The bag is empty or someone has filled the board. Points are counted: placed animals, adjacent terrain features, completed cards. Someone wins by a cube, but everyone wants to play again immediately with different cards.

🏁 End of game
🐸Good to know beforeThree honest things, from friends▼

Good to know before

Three things to consider

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Pattern learning curve

For the first few games, you spend time deciphering the patterns on the Animal cards: what terrain is needed, how to arrange it. After 2-3 games it becomes automatic, but at first it slows you down a bit. It's not a flaw of the game, it's physiological.

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Luck of the draw

The bag determines which tiles come out in the central area. Sometimes you find what you're looking for, sometimes you don't. You always have 9 sets to choose from, but if everyone draws forests and you need them, you have to adapt. The draft mitigates, but does not eliminate.

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Indirect interaction

You don't attack opponents, you don't directly ruin their plans. You only compete for the best tiles. If you're looking for direct confrontation, table tension or bluffing, Harmonies doesn't offer that. It's a competitive puzzle, not a duel.

🏆Victory and defeatWhat the end rewards▼

How it ends

How to win

The game ends when the bag is empty or at least one player has filled almost their entire board (2 or fewer empty spaces). Everyone completes their turn, then points are counted.

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Final score

  • Each placed Animal cube is worth points (the value varies by animal type)
  • Terrain features (overlapping tiles) give bonus points if adjacent to at least one other terrain feature. The higher the terrain feature, the more points it's worth
  • Completed Animal cards (all cubes placed) give bonus points based on the highest number revealed on the card
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What costs you points

  • Isolated terrain features (not adjacent to other terrain features) are worth zero points, even if high
  • Animal cards with cubes still available (not placed) do not give the final bonus
  • Empty spaces on the board do not give penalties, but represent missed opportunities

Harmonies is an accessible but never trivial puzzle, perfect for families and casual players who want something more satisfying than a filler. Replayability is very high, setup is very fast, and it works very well in solo mode too. Weight 2.0/5, ideal as a gateway game for families and casual players. Italian edition by Asmodee available on frogames.business.

💬Frequently asked questionsQuick answers before the cart▼

Frequently asked questions

FAQ on Harmonies

What mechanics does Harmonies use?

Harmonies uses tile placement, pattern building, open drafting (open choice from a common pool) and set collection. The advanced variant adds variable player powers via the Nature Spirit cards.

Is it suitable for someone who never plays board games?

Yes. The rules can be explained in 10 minutes, the iconography is clear, there are no complex exceptions. It's an excellent gateway game: simple enough for beginners, deep enough for those who want to optimize. Perfect for families or mixed game nights.

How long does a game really take?

With experienced players, exactly 30 minutes. The first game or one with 4 new players can take up to 45 minutes. The game flows quickly because turns are fast and there are no long waiting phases. In solo mode, 20-25 minutes.

Do the Nature Spirit cards change the game a lot?

Yes, but they don't overhaul it. They add a bonus pattern to complete and a permanent effect once activated. They increase variety without adding bulk. We recommend using them from the third game onwards, when you have a good grasp of the basic animal patterns.

Is it available in Italian?

Yes, the Italian edition by Asmodee includes the rulebook, cards, and all translated material. The game still has a strong visual component (iconographic patterns), so language has little impact on gameplay once you've learned the rules.

The people behind the game

Who invented it, who designed it, who publishes it — and what else they have done.

✍️AuthorJohan BenvenutoSee his other games →🎨IllustratorMaëva da SilvaSee the games she designed →🏢PublisherAsmodeeSee their entire catalog →

Harmonies is a tile placement and pattern building board game for 1-4 players, designed by Johan Benvenuto and illustrated by Maëva da Silva, published by Libellud in 2024. Each game lasts 30-45 minutes, recommended age 10+. Players build natural landscapes by choosing colored tiles from a common area, placing them on their personal board (even overlapping them to create terrain features), and populating them with animals by completing specific patterns shown on the cards. The game also works very well in solo mode thanks to dedicated official rules. Weight 2.0/5, ideal as a gateway game for families and casual players. Italian edition by Asmodee available on frogames.business.

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