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Designers: Jay Cormier, Sen-Foong Lim
Publisher: Off the Page Games
Artist: Matthew Roberts

I think Insecta is a great expansion! Not only does it add more maps, but the new content changes the goals and flow of the game making it feel fresh. The main goal is to gather resources to make insecticide and kill the insects. I found the difficulty to be about the same as the standard flora and fauna maps, but challenging in a different way, which I like.

In addition to the new puzzle being very fun, there’s also an extra time constraint present as you only have certain times you can make the insecticide, and there are just different strategies required and unique challenges to overcome. It feels like it fits well as the third “installment” if you will.

As always, luck can be pretty prevalent in the expansion, but there was only one game where it really played a determining factor in my success.

If you don’t enjoy the base game, this isn’t going to fix anything for you, but if you do enjoy the base game, this expansion is definitely a great addition!