Tea Witches is a competitive worker placement and contract fulfillment game for 2-4 players in which you take on the roles of competing businesses trying to become the most popular and successful over the course of four rounds. Is the result as dry as that ‘elevator pitch’ sounded, or does the gameplay live up to the sweetness of its fantastical premise?

Let’s Get Brewing 

Every player starts with a player board, a matching deck of “basic witch” cards, and two matching “Tea Pups”, which are magical four-legged teapots that serve as your workers. You start every day drawing cards from your basic witch deck in a push-your-luck mini-game to draft customers and what bonus resources you receive. After that, you’ll take turns sending out tea-pups onto locations on the board, gaining even more resources and taking location-specific actions like purchasing upgrades for your shop, gaining one-time-use powers, or serving Celebri-Tea witches with strong bonuses but demanding requirements. You’ll also spend your turn serving some of the witchy customers you drafted at the start of the round, as well as fulfilling to-go orders for bonus coins and victory points.

At the end of the round your tea pups return, dropping their held tea into any open spots on your player…

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