Propolis

Worker placement, except the workers are bees and the boss is a queen.

Send your beeples out across the landscape tiles to gather pollen, nectar and the rest, then spend what you've collected building the structures that make up your queen's palace. The game ends when someone reaches ten cards in their tableau.

It's a small box that packs in worker placement, resource management, area control and tableau building — which is either impressively dense or one mechanic too many depending on who you ask. Plays one to four in about half an hour.

Perfect for: euro fans short on table space, solo players, and anyone who has ever described a garden as 'good for pollinators'.