Dorfromantik: The Board Game FAQ
109 questions players ask · Updated Nov 11, 2026 · Full rulebook
Components
- How do you tell a flag tile from a special tile?
- How many 7-point task markers come with the game?
- Are there enough task markers for every task tile?
- What comes in the base game before anything is unlocked?
- Which tile looks like a rails x2 card in the Construction Site set?
- What edges does the Castle tile have?
- Where is the third set of flag tiles in the campaign contents?
Setup
- When are special tiles mixed into the landscape stack at setup?
- Do you remove three landscape tiles for each special tile at setup?
- Can a flag tile be one of the three landscape tiles set aside at setup?
- Can a task tile or special tile be one of the three tiles set aside at setup?
- Are the 7-point task tiles set out separately at setup?
Goal of the game
- Is there a win or loss condition in Dorfromantik?
- Are flags tasks in Dorfromantik?
- Do unlock targets such as 30 or 200 points have to be scored in one game?
- What does Heart's Desire require, and does the heart need to be placed?
- How do you unlock Box 4 and Box 5?
- Does the golden heart goal count in the game where you open box 5?
Course of the game
- Can you end a track or stream by placing a tile with no track or stream on it?
- Must river and track edges match when a tile is placed?
- Must forest, grain, village and meadow edges match the tiles they touch?
- Do terrain tiles connect when they touch only at a corner?
- Can a track or stream form a loop?
- Can a village have an empty space inside it?
Task tiles and markers
- Can you place a task tile whose own task is already impossible, so it cancels itself?
- Can you place a task tile on purpose to cancel the task you just placed?
- Can you place a task that can no longer be completed, if no tile has made it impossible yet?
- When is a task marker cancelled and returned to the box unscored?
- Can a landscape tile close off a territory, track or stream that is smaller than its marker?
- Can a task or special tile, not just a landscape tile, close off a territory to cancel another task?
- Can you place a tile that pushes another task's territory past its number?
- If a later tile grows a region past its task number, does the task still score?
- Does a task score as soon as its tile is placed on an area of exactly its number?
- Can one tile complete two task markers at once?
- Can a tile joining two areas complete one task and discard another it overfills?
- Can a river tile join both ends of a river you are building for a task?
- Can you place a task tile or marker on a territory that already has one?
- Where do task tiles go when a task fails or is cancelled?
- How many task tiles can be active at once?
- Do you reveal a task tile on each of the first three turns?
- Can you look at a task marker's value before placing its tile?
- Can you discard a task on purpose to get a new task tile?
- What do you do if a drawn task tile has no legal place on the board?
End of the game
- When does the game end, and does running out of task tiles end it?
- What happens when the task tile stack runs out?
- If the last landscape tile completes or cancels a task, does play continue?
- When is a territory closed for flag scoring?
- Does a flag on a closed single tile score a point?
- Do two flags in the same territory both score?
- Does the village example on page 6 count the small tile beside the river?
- Do tunnel tiles count toward the length of a river or railroad?
- Do all branches of a river or track count toward the longest one?
- Does a Clouds edge facing empty space have to be blocked to score a flag territory?
Special tiles
- How does a Clouds tile connect to the tiles around it?
- When must you decide a Clouds edge's connection, and can you change it later?
- Can a river or track end or continue inside a Clouds tile?
- Can a Clouds tile close off a stream for the Harbor?
- Does a Harbor score when its river ends at a Clouds tile?
- Does a Harbor score the longest river, or only the river it sits on?
- Does a Train Station or Harbor score when its track or river is closed off at both ends?
- Does the Great Mill count grain tasks completed in other territories?
- How does the Locomotive score?
- How do x2 scoring tiles, such as the Forest Cabin, score?
- Do tasks completed before a special tile was placed also score for it?
- How do tasks that complete while a Ship tile is in play score?
- Must the Watchtower be placed before a task is completed to score it?
- How do you score the Bahnwärter special tile?
- How does the Construction Site special tile score?
- Does the Shepherdess score every sheep tile linked through a chain?
- Does a Clouds tile provide sheep to the Shepherdess?
- How does the Balloon Launch Site score as the balloon moves?
- How does the Hill score across an empty gap?
Red hearts
- Can you place a red heart on a tile that is already on the board?
- Can red hearts go on special, task or flag tiles?
- Do blank grass sides touching a heart count toward its score?
- How do sheep edges count for red heart scoring?
- How many red hearts are there, and when do you get them?
- How do you unlock the red hearts in box 3?
- Does an unlocked red heart stay in play for future games?
Campaign sheet and boxes
- Can you run two separate campaigns with one copy of the game?
- Can players join or leave the campaign between games?
- Is there a rule difference between solo and multiplayer?
- Do you open box 3 when you reach a certain point on the campaign sheet?
- Once your crosses reach a box hex, can you open the box?
- When is a green hex reached on the campaign sheet?
- Must you unlock the boxes in order?
- Can you follow more than one campaign path at once?
- Do you earn campaign crosses again when you repeat a score in a later game?
- On the campaign sheet, do you mark only your score's row or the rows below?
- What goes in the crown column of an achievement on the campaign sheet?
- Is a campaign score slot used up once you record it?
- Is a box 3 achievement recorded in two places on the campaign sheet?
- After unlocking box 4, can you shuffle its special tiles in right away?
- Does the campaign end once every achievement is unlocked?
- Do all three tracks have to reach the Clouds to unlock it?
- Where are the achievement effects and the list of achievements found?
Achievement cards
- Do both routes to the Signalman achievement have to be crossed off?
- Is the Warehouse a tile or only a card?
- Can you store a task tile or special tile on the Warehouse?
- After completing a task, can you play the stored Warehouse landscape tile instead of revealing a task?
- Can you swap the stored Warehouse tile for a freshly drawn tile?
- Do the tiles around the Circus achievement have to match its terrain?
- How do you unlock the Flag Festival achievement?
- Do flags spread over several territories count toward the Flag Festival?
- How do you unlock the Construction Site achievement?
- How do the Farm, Castle and Deer achievements score?
- Does the Deer task fail if its forest grows past seven in one move?
- How does the Signalman achievement score?
- After completing a 7-castle task, can you keep growing the castle?