Cities
2-4 players | Ages 10+ | 30-40 minutes
Publisher: Devir Games, 2024
Co-designer: Steve Finn
Art: Jorge Tabanera Redondo
You've been tasked by the city council to put together a plan to transform a whole neighborhood. You have the opportunity to build new housing, office buildings, parks, and leisure areas near the waterfront. It is in your hands to make the city a better place. Cities is a city-building game in which you draft the best projects and arrange them in your own playing area. With action and resource draft mechanisms, it will give you the opportunity to visit the cities of Sydney, Venice, New York, Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, Lisbon, Mexico City, and Buenos Aires. Can you design the most magnificent neighbourhood?.
I have always been a huge fan of Steve Finn’s classic card game Biblios. So when he contacted me about working on a game together I said yes right away! We worked together entirely remotely, passing the design back and forth for months. In the end, we came up with a really intuitive city building game that presents a lot of small but engaging puzzles. I also think the drafting system creates some real moments of dramatic interaction. When we decided to make each set of achievements represent a different city of the world, the whole product clicked. Devir did a great job realising the game, and Jorge’s wonderful paintings bring a lot of rich and fun detail.
Links
➚ Cities at BoardGameGeek