Last year, I reviewed Fromage, a game about making cheese where time is used as a resource. The game is played around a circular gameboard, divided into four quadrants (a.k.a venues). Each venue is a different mini-game where players will be placing their workers and aging cheeses in an effort to score points. At the end of each round, the game board rotates a quarter of the way, lazy Susan style, so that each player will be presented a new venue with which to interact on their turn. This continues until someone has placed out their final piece of cheese, and then end scoring is performed to determine the winner.

Formaggio, the standalone expansion to Fromage, follows this same format (place workers and cheese, rotate to the next venue, rinse and repeat) with a few small tweaks and four brand new venues. Due to its standalone nature, it is possible to own—and play—Formaggio without having played, or without owning, Fromage. However, if you own both, then the opportunity to mix the two together is possible, if you so wish.

This mixing of things isn’t as smooth as you might hope. It isn’t as simple as just grabbing four of the venues and slapping them together. Some of the venues have their own specialized bits that go along with…

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