
- BGG rank
- BGG #1,306
- BGG rating
- 8.0
Formaggio
2025
Rules assistance for Formaggio
Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.
- 1–4 players
- 30–45 min
- 14+
- Complexity 2.4/5
About the game
You are an Italian cheesemaker in the early 20th century making, aging, and selling your artisanal cheeses. Become the most prestigious cheesemaker in all of Italy by running a highly successful creamery and crafting exceptional cheese. Formaggio is a standalone expansion for Fromage. With both games put together, you can combine any 4 board quadrants, and draft any combination of structure tiles for more variety and more paths to victory. Formaggio is a simultaneous worker-placement game where players place Workers to make cheese and gather resources from the quadrant of the board facing them. Once all players have placed their Workers, the board rotates, aging any cheese that was made, and presenting each player with a new quadrant to place Workers into. Score Prestige Points by selling cheese to the four locations, and by efficiently managing and upgrading your creamery. Formaggio features 4 new board quadrants with all new puzzling mini-games: • Pair your cheese with the wines at the Vigneto. • Sell cheese to restaurants along the Venetian canals and attract customers. • Distribute cheese across the Regioni of Italy. • Deposit cheese in the Banca. (Yes, there is a real bank in Italy that accepts cheese as collateral for loans!) Other new features: • Platinum-tier cheeses. • Reap various rewards in each of the Seasons. • All new abilities on the Player Boards and Structure tiles. —description from the publisher
Mechanics
Designers
Publishers
- Road To Infamy Games (R2i Games)
- CrowD Games
- Yellowstar Games
Questions and answers
The rules assistant for Formaggio will help explain turns, card effects and disputed situations, with references to verified official materials and saved question history. It is not ready yet; verified sources for your edition are still being prepared.
Formaggio supports 1–4 players according to the catalogue.
The listed playing time for Formaggio is 30–45 minutes. The actual duration depends on the group and its familiarity with the game.
The catalogue lists Formaggio for ages 14 and up. Check the age guidance on your edition.
The credited designers of Formaggio are: Ben Rosset.
The catalogue lists Formaggio as a base game.
Rules assistant for Formaggio
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