After the Great Disasters, a new chapter in Sylvan Dale's history has begun. The Elders have called on you and your fellow architects to design a new woodland realm - a haven perched in the high embrace of the Great Trees. Guide the builders of Sylvan Dale as they construct dwellings, bridges, and hanging courtyards.

Builders of Sylvan Dale, designed by Peter Ridgeway, is a unique three-dimensional tile placement game. Play a card and place a new dwelling on top of the ever-taller trees in the forest. Collect sets of cards to gain special actions, such as building bridges or magically growing treetops. Get your dwellings to stand out high on the trees, above those of your rivals, and be forever remembered as the greatest architect of Sylvan Dale!

The game is played in two rounds. In each round, every player has half of tiles to place on the trees trying to gain prestige and collect the highest number of fame points. At the end of each round, you determine which player has preeminence in each tree and each district into which the board is divided, and fame points are calculated. The player with the highest total amount of fame points at the end of the s coring phase wins.