...maybe better. It's hard to say. While the game is similar in many ways, it's also quite different. It's much larger in scope, and yet, easier to explain (at least in terms of scoring). And the best part is, people actually want to play it with me! Agricola turned off everyone who I played with, for some reason. I think the fact that you can just kinda do whatever you want, the free, open nature of it, is better than being somewhat forced into doing everything (and penalized if you don't) in Agricola. As worker placements go, this one is up there for me. Not my #1, but I wouldn't turn down a game of it.