Root Bound

In Root Bound, living plants expand across the board in a struggle for territory. With each advance, future options dwindle, and careless growth can leave a plant tangled, cut off, and withered. Root Bound won the BoardGameGeek Abstract Games Forum’s “Best Combinatorial 2-Player Game of 2024”. As an abstract strategy game, Root Bound requires only a hexagonal board and pieces in two colors. Root Bound draws inspiration from the game of Go, Mark Steere’s Take, Michael Amundsen’s Cavity, and Michael Amundsen and Luis Bolaños Mures’s Lifeline. —description from the designer