Fresco
In Fresco; players are master painters working to restore a fresco in a Renaissance church.
Each round begins with players deciding what time they would like to wake up for the day. The earlier you wake up; the earlier you will be in turn order; and the better options you will be guaranteed to have. Wake up early too often; however; and your apprentices will become unhappy and stop working as efficiently. They would much rather sleep in!
Then; players decide their actions for the turn; deploying their apprentice work force to various tasks. You'll need to buy paint; mix paint; work on painting the fresco; raise money (which you'll need to buy the aforementioned paint!) by painting portraits; and perhaps even send your apprentices to the opera in order to increase their happiness. Points are scored mostly by painting the fresco; which requires specific combinations of paints; so you'll need to buy and mix your paints wisely; in addition to beating other players to the paints and fresco segments you would like to paint.
Fresco includes several expansion modules; so you can play without expansions for a lighter family game or add in expansions to vary play and increase the decision-making and difficulty; resulting in a very flexible game with a high replay value.
