Instead of the wooden cubes, cylinders and standard meeples used in the standard version of the game, this version includes 144 3D contents: the fruits miniatures (74 fruits, divided among apples, strawberries, blueberries, peaches, lemons, and oranges) and jars of jams miniatures (42 jams of 6 different kinds), and the custom meeples in several colors.

It also features the Initial Resources expansion, which has 20 additional cards. This expansion, and other expansions which will be unlocked by SGs, will not be included in the retail Deluxe version but will be sold separately. Here you can have them for free!

Seeing 3D resources is a fantastic view! :-)


The prototype, a closer look at the fruits


At the campaign end, we will check the number of pledges for each Frutticola game version. To produce a version a minimum amount of orders is required. If one version will not reach the minimum number required, backers who have chosen it will be able to switch it to the other one during the pledge manager or to get a refund. Thanks for understanding.





The list of stretch goals is visible on the left column of this page! Both the campaigns on GS and KS contribute to unlocking them.

• 1 Star: Your name will appear in the rulebook in the Honorable Mentions!
• 2 Stars: You will receive an Early Bird Wild Card! With the Wild Card you will be able to send us an email during a Giochix game campaign and we will change your standard pledge to an Early Bird pledge! (or Super-Early, if present in that campaign).
• 3 Stars: You will gain a Rocket Shipping! We usually manage to send 200 packages during the first 24 hours of our first "shippings day", but this time we promise to push this number to 250 packages. Unlock this SG and your copy will be among the 50 additional packages we will send on our first shipping day!

Every day we'll post 2 questions with 4 possible answers to choose from. The questions will be about fruits, Frutticola, and our next games. At the end of the campaign, everyone who has answered correctly to all of them will be a winner! Depending on the number of participants the winners will gain:

• 1-100 contest participants. Thank you for joining it! :-)
• 101-300 contest participants. Winners will gain a 5 euros coupon valid on the next Giochix.it campaign of Città-Stato Euro boardgame!
• 301-500 contest participants. Winners will gain the prize above, plus a 5 euros coupon valid on the next Giochix.it campaign of Trinidad strategic boardgame!
• 501+ contest participants. Winners will gain the prizes above, plus they will be honorably mentioned in the acknowledgments of the Frutticola English game's rulebook.

The video shows the game prototype.





In the '50s, a small town in the US was famous for its fruit-bearing trees. Its local companies were competing amongst each other, producing jams that kept getting tastier, which in turn made the town get more and more famous. Every year, after the Christmas party, the local entrepreneurs compared their profits: will you be the best this year?

In Frutticola the players lead small family businesses specialized in growing and selling fruits and jams, trying to become the richest in town by the end of the year! With only a few Workers and Farmers, you will have to choose when to send them in the fields, or to buy pesticides, fertilizers, and other items, and when to produce jams and sell them at the market. Who will prove to be the best?




A game lasts 1 year, divided into 4 rounds (the 4 seasons). First, the players choose an action card, which shows the number and what kind of employees will be used in the round and the special power available. Then the players take turns sending their employees to take specific actions, one at a time.

Players can sell their wares at prices that change based on previous actions. At the end of the fourth and last round, there will be a final chance to sell at the Christmas sale, and players will be able to sell surplus stock: only an intelligent and strategic economic planning will let players earn the most profit and win the game.




This project is live at the same time on two crowdfunding platforms: Giochistarter and Kickstarter.

The game is the same (as are the stretch goals) on both platforms. The total of the funds pledged to the campaign, that unlocks the stretch-goals, will be the sum of the pledges from both websites. This sum is automatically visible on the Giochistarter page, in the top left corner. 

You can join this campaign and pay with Credit Card, Paypal, Bitcoins, Satispay or Bank transfer. On GS you can also choose Paypal and pay in 3 installments, with no interest.

The games will be shipped from Italy. There will be no additional costs for shipping within the European Union (like customs or other taxes). If you live outside the EU, further costs may incur, so we advise you to inform yourself about your country's laws in this regard.




The prototype, a closer look at the game




Joining this project will earn you Fidelity Points. Collecting Fidelity Points will earn you a permanent discount linked to your account of up to 20%. The discount is applicable on our campaigns, our preorders, and any purchase made on our websites: giochistarter.it, giochix.it, or at achegiochiamo.it. You can find more information in the FAQ section.




Frutticola is available on Tabletopia - the greatest platform for boardgames online! This will allow you to try the game before purchasing it.



The beta rulebook for Frutticola is available here.

The USA and Canada-Friendly options are available only if choosing the postal shipping. They are not guaranteed if choosing to ship by courier, as international commerce options are constantly shifting.

After the campaign, you will receive an email that will give you access to our Pledge Manager. The Pledge Manager is a special area of our site, where you can review your pledge, add more rewards, addons and also other games. 

In the Pledge Manager, you will also be able to review the details of your address and pay the shipping costs.


The prototype, a closer look at the game





Michele, Fabrizio, Federico and Chiara, a small group of crazy boardgame enthusiasts! This is Giochix!



We live in Rome, Italy. We love how board games and role-playing games bring people around the table, giving every player their own space to find their way to win. We love to create something new, bringing passion and fun to other people. Developing games is the most interesting thing: exploring new ways to play and think while having fun is just fantastic!




We have published many games for more than ten years now, always trying to do the next one better than the last! We have done games like De Vulgari Eloquentia Deluxe, Co2 Second Chance, Auztralia, Teotihuacan, Medioevo Universale, Altiplano,  Samhain, Tales of the Arabian Nights, Principi del Rinascimento, Virus, Race for the Galaxy, Fief, Mare Nostrum, Kanban, Tesla vs Edison, Tiny Epic Kingdoms, VEC, Bomarzo, The Foreign King, Historia, CO2, Romolo o Remo, De Vulgari Eloquentia. 

We also produce game accessories like card sleeves and metal coins.

Check our website!  www.giochix.it



Virginio is 52 years old. He has always loved games in all of their aspects, both as a player and as an author. He says that his first creations, dating back to 35 years ago at this point, were decent, but definitely not memorable. Anyways, he had fun with them, together with his friends.
In 2001, together with Flaminia Brasini (his companion), Antonio Tinto and Stefano Luperto, he founds the Acchittocca group, which creates Leonardo da Vinci (2006), Ghost for Sale (2007), Comuni (2008), and Egizia (2009).
In 2015 he signed Grand Austria Hotel with Simone Luciani, in 2016 Lorenzo il Magnifico with Flaminia and Simone, and in 2017 the expansion for this game, Famiglie del Rinascimento, as well as Dino World, designed with Flaminia and Marco Pranzo; in 2018 he signed Coimbra with Flaminia.
After a 10 years long break, in 2019 there were the releases of Terramara and Egizia Shifting Sands, of the same authors that were part of the Acchittocca group, by now disbanded.
In 2020 there should be releases, in addition to the already announced Golem (with Flaminia and Simone Luciani) and Frutticola (with Giovanni Fiore), of several other games that still haven't been officially announced.
For several years he has been working on his games, with Flaminia and with a group of inventor friends (Marco Pranzo, Tommaso Battista and Gabriele Ausiello), with whom he shares playtests, suggestions and ideas; this collaboration lead to Dino World and others may be upcoming.
He has worked for 28 years in Atac, Rome's public transportation company, which he left to focus completely on the creation of boardgames.


Giovanni is 34 years old and was born in Nocera Inferiore. He is a computer technician and a martial arts enthusiast, studying to be a personal trainer. He is dedicated to his family, to his wife Giovanna and to the daughter Sophia.
He loves games of every kind. "I love playing them, studying them, changing them and creating them from zero".