2024Matthew O'Malley, Ben Rosset
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1 - 4 players30 - 45 minMedium weight

2025Ben Rosset
Mostly reviews and unboxings. Formaggio is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 12 reviews, 3 how-to-play guides, 2 recorded sessions, 12 unboxings, and 2 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
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
Formaggio has 31 videos from 21 creators: 12 reviews, 3 how-to-play guides, 2 playthroughs, 12 unboxings and 2 other videos. They date from 2025 to September 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "All the Games with Steph: Formaggio - Teach" by Steph Hodge, which runs 23 min. For a quicker teach, "Formaggio - 2 Player How to Play" by Merry Married Meeples runs 13 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Formaggio Preview" by Game Boy Geek. 11 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Formaggio Solo Play - The Cheese Strikes Again!" by Merry Married Meeples, one of 2 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Fromage, The Search for Planet X, The Game Makers and Excursions, also by Ben Rosset.
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2024Matthew O'Malley, Ben Rosset
1 - 4 players30 - 45 minMedium weight
2020Matthew O'Malley, Ben Rosset
1 - 4 players60 - 75 minMedium weight
From BoardGameGeek:
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
Designer
Ben Rosset
Artist
Pavel Zhovba
Publisher
Road To Infamy Games (R2i Games)
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