City Builder: Ancient World

KS, arrived on 2021/05/03 The game is simple to understand and play, goes pretty fast with all player counts, is light, reasonablty small box and beautiful. Has good deluxe components and convenient tray. Really hard to find something to not like. With the simple rules it still gives plenty to think about and every game feels very different from just getting other tiles and obelisks. And it even offers a co-op mode with a different mechanic -- you could count that as a second game that just reuses the hardware.

Easy to learn, fun to play. Games goes pretty fast once you get into the swing of it.

Played at ‘22 origins. Enjoyed it very much. Quick to learn hard to be good at.

Really fun tile laying game - it’s nice to have a cooperative mode as I have a few people in my house who get a bit angry when they play competitive games. For those of us who can lose gracefully the competitive version is a lot of fun. The rule book is a bit obtuse but after a few practice turns it all makes sense!

Colors are hard to distinguish. Tiles are too busy BUT the gameplay is just GREAT!!! A better tile-placement game than Carcassonne. Cities look very nice at the end of the game! The geometric patterns are fascinating!