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Card City

Points for Residential areas

You place cards to form a town in which different buildings to form city boroughs. The better you plan and use interactions of buildings the higher your score will be. The game features six kinds for buildings: Residences, Commercial buildings, Industries, Recreation, Parking and City Hall.

The game comprises ten rounds and in each round you play the steps of Acquisition of new buildings, Construction of new buildings, Urban development, Income and Clean-up for the next round. The acquisition of new buildings is an elaborate procedure following the mechanisms of „one party makes up the offer, the other party chooses“ until each player has acquired two new cards.

Buildings are constructed by placing them in your grid of 5x5 cards maximum; the City Hall need not be in the center. If you can place a building you must do so; the rules for placement are manifold as regards to adjacencies and cards can never be relocated. A city borough is made up from building cards of the same color with orthogonally adjacent edges.

After ten rounds you score residential areas according to the number of cards in the borough; empty spots in your grid score -1 point each! Finally, you can exchange five units of money for one victory point and you win with most points.

This game reminds me strongly of Sim City the Card Game; as in all urban development games the topic is interesting and challenging and the interaction of cards is the deciding factor, together with the right balance of building types. There is no interaction but in distributing the cards, you optimize your town without influence from outside.

Players: 2-4

Age: 12+

Time: 45+

Designer: Alban Viard

Artist: Alban Viard, Sampo Sitiö

Price: ca. 16 Euro

Publisher: Ludibay 2012

Web: www.ludibay.net

Genre: card placement, urban development

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: de fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Attractive design

Actual topic

Interesting building rules

Compares to:

Sim City and other urban development games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0