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Ore City

my own city

As a city planner, you want to acquire victory points for the construction of Public Works. The money for those constructions is earned by constructing Residential, Commercial and Industrial buildings. Cards in the game are Construction cards (residential cards, commercial cards and industrial cards) and cards for Public Works.

The game is prepared with a display of cards and cards for players’ hands. Then you can, as the active player, build residential, commercial or industrial buildings from your hand on your own or on opponents’ construction sites for coins or to hinder those players, building rules must be considered. Or you place Book-Closing for money or technologies from industrial cards and empty your building sites; other players also receive money and/or technologies for buildings from this building site. Or you complete a Public Works building for victory points or swap cards from your hand with the display or discard cards and draw new ones or pass.

A construction site can only take one type of cards – residential, commercial or industrial – and changes on sites are achieved by placing a book closing. Acquired cards are placed in the acquisition space and you can only hold one Public Works building at a time. If you earn your 10^th victory points with a Public Works building, you win instantly.

A standard topic was attractively varied here; use of opposing construction sites and emptying of sites with card activation, profit and even acquisition of cards for owners of sites as well as for opponents there, are attractive details. The game is an interesting addition to the genre of urban development games.

Players: 2-6

Age: 10+

Time: 60+

Designer: Kiroaki Fujiwara

Artist: Kiroaki Fujiwara

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: Tohoku Wisteria 2016

Web: www.japonbrand.com

Genre: Urban development

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr + jp

In-game text: no

Comments:

Standard topic

Interesting mechanism details

Good, extensive rules

Compares to:

All urban development games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0