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The River
Buldings on the river bank
Scouts are exploring the banks of a broad river, going upstream. You place them to collect resources and to set up buildings with the aim to have the most impressive settlement at the end of the game.
At the start you select one terrain tile in turn as first tile for your river board; then the islands on the main board are filled with terrain tiles in relation to the number of players. There is terrain for production of resources, terrain for storage, terrain offering both options and there are meadows, for immediate advantages, for later use or for victory points at the end of the game.
The active player can start his turn with exchanging resources for food and must then relocate a scout from his ship to an island on the board – there are cases with room for one scout of any color, cases with room for two scouts of every color and cases with room for any number of scouts regardless of color – and resolve the case action: Take terrain tile, produce resource, reserve a building or set up a building including bonuses, swap terrain oder become starting player. Terrain, as mentioned, produces or stores resources. When all scouts are on islands and ships are empty, you remove remaining terrain tiles and place new ones; unsold buildings remain, and the display is replenished; all players take back their scouts to their ships. When someone has five bonus tiles or taken twelve terrains, you score resources, terrain types in columns and meadows at the end of the round.
The River is a very attractive family game, offering a worker placement game for newcomers to the genre or for casual players, featuring good components and nice design.
Players: 2-4
Age: 8+
Time: 45+
Designer: Ismaël Perrin, Sébastien Pauchon
Artist: Andrew Bosley, Cyrille Daujean
Price: ca. 40 Euro
Publisher: Days of Wonder / Asmodee 2018
Web: www.asmodee.de
Genre: Development, worker placement
Users: For families
Version: de
In-game text: no
Comments:
Attractive components
Simple rules
Good introduction to the worker placement genre
Compares to:
Simple Worker placement games for building
Other editions:
Days of Wonder (en es fr), Rebel (pl)
Chance (pink): 1
Tactic (turquoise): 2
Strategy (blue): 1
Creativity (dark blue): 0
Knowledge (yellow): 0
Memory (orange): 0
Communication (red): 0
Interaction (brown): 3
Dexterity (green): 0
Action (dark green): 0