Il Fiume d'Oro

Truly adore this game. It immediately climbed to my top 5 games, along the ranks of Eclipse, Brass Birmingham and other major hitters. Bravo to Keith Piggot and the team that developed this game. You truly have something special!

Fantastic game, and the production bumps it up to a 10! Check out the full review: https://youtu.be/OHgAZNFt7IU

Has an interesting balance of action choices that interlock for point bonuses, yet plays quickly. Everything is tied to the die roll which you can adjust somewhat. You want to buy up the buildings quickly so that you can generate resources, but the pace of purchase accelerates the end. Investing in the more expensive building spots is worthwhile because they are more likely to be visited. Customer contracts have varying difficulty. They all provide rewards and delivering to more customers provides increasing points.

A very, very elegant, clever design. I particularly like how, similar to the also excellent Apiary, the player interaction is positive - but you might not want to give the other players too much through it.

I'm the designer so take this rating for what it's worth, but I'm thrilled with how this game turned out - both with the production & the development that was done along the way. Can't wait for everyone to start getting their copies soon!