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Gaïa

A world emerges

Together you create a world, you populate it with people, cities and animals and cultivate it. The stack of Landscape tiles, Nature cards and Life cards are prepared, three Nature cards and two Life cards and Objective cards - depending on the number of players - are on display.

In your turn you have two actions -  options are drawing a card or playing a card, in any order and you can also do the same action twice. A Nature card is put down and a corresponding Landscape tile is added to the joint landscape display. If you can complete an Objective card with Nature cards you collected, you place one of your markers on the Objective card and discard the Nature cards. For a Life card you put four animal markers on the corresponding empty landscape. A City Card is placed on an empty landscape with corresponding symbol; two needs of the city must be met by the four surrounding landscape tiles. If you later meet additional needs of the city, you put a marker into the city. Needs can also turn unfulfilled if a new city covers a landscape or animal markers are all used up, if necessary a city is removed. At the start of your turn you must supply cities with your markers my removing one animal token per marker.

If you have all markers on the board, you win. In the advanced game you can take over cities of other players, or place two markers when all needs of a city are met and also draw and play power cards.

A small world, quickly created and managed – the topic is nicely and neatly implemented, using few rules and few mechanisms. Gaïa is a good family game and plays very well for two players, using the advanced version.

Players: 2-5

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Olivier Rolko

Artist: Julien Castanié

Price: ca. 25 Euros

Publisher: Tiki Editions Inc. 2015

Web: www.tikieditions.com

Genre: Development, placement

Users: For families

Special: 2 players

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Special edition 2015 with improved components

First edition 2014

Fantastic graphics

Topic neatly implemented

Nice family game

Also good for two players

Compares to:

City building games, landscape placement games

Other editions:

Standard edition, Tiki Editions 2014; Asmodee, Germany; Lucrum, Poland

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0