boardgamevideo
  • Trending
  • Videos
  • Games
  • Channels
  • Lists
  • Shorts

Explore

  • Home
  • Trending
  • Channels
  • Videos
  • Games
  • Lists
  • Shorts
  • Conventions
  • Year in Review

Browse by type

  • Reviews
  • How to play
  • Playthroughs
  • Unboxing
  • Top 100 lists
  • Featured videos
  • Trending this week
  • Rising games
  • Games with fresh review perspectives

Information

  • About
  • Contact
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy

© 2022–2026 BoardGameVideo.com

Powered by BGG
  • Videos
  • Trending
  • Shorts
  • Channels
  • Games
  • Lists
Fresco

Fresco

2010·Wolfgang Panning, Marco Ruskowski, Marcel Süßelbeck

2 - 4 players
60 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting

From BoardGameGeek

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.

Fresco

Which Fresco video should I watch?

Fresco has 2 videos from 2 creators: 2 reviews. They date from 2024 to January 2026.

If you like it, try Fresco: Mega Box, Indus and Maharani, also by Wolfgang Panning, or Parfum, also by Marco Ruskowski.

All videos

Booghy plays a classic... Fresco(w. mod.1,2,3,6)(3p, Playthrough and Review)Review3:33:03

Booghy plays a classic... Fresco(w. mod.1,2,3,6)(3p, Playthrough and Review)

Booghy Plays...

Booghy Plays...

FrescoReview4:13

Fresco

Mel's Board Game Room

Mel's Board Game Room

Creators who cover this

All channels
Booghy Plays...
Booghy Plays...
1 video of this game
Mel's Board Game Room
Mel's Board Game Room
1 video of this game

Games like this

All games

Fresco: Mega Box

2020·Wolfgang Panning, Marco Ruskowski, Marcel Süßelbeck

Videos
3
Creators
1
Mostly reviews and playthroughs

2 - 4 players·60 - 90 min·Medium weight

Parfum

2015·Marco Ruskowski, Marcel Süßelbeck

Videos
2
Creators
2
Reviews

2 - 4 players·45 min·Medium weight

Indus

2004·Wolfgang Panning

Videos
1
Creators
1
Reviews

2 - 4 players·60 min·Light weight

Maharani

2012·Wolfgang Panning

Videos
1
Creators
1
How-to-play

2 - 4 players·40 min·Medium weight

About Fresco

From BoardGameGeek:

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.

Designers

Wolfgang Panning, Marco Ruskowski, Marcel Süßelbeck

Artist

Oliver Schlemmer

Publisher

Queen Games

Categories

Renaissance

Mechanics

Programmed ActionsGrid MovementMarket & TradingSet Collection
View on BoardGameGeek ›
Home
Games
Fresco
cached: 66188