2018 · City Building
5x5 City
Players take on the role of mayors developing new cities during a period of expansion. Each player builds a city on a 5×5 board, placing building tiles to attract residents and earn points. At the start of the game, a compartment card divides each board into sections. In each round, a building tile is drawn according to the active section, and players communicate before placing it only within that area. Buildings provide various effects, while unwanted buildings can be flipped to become parks. Strategic placement and effective use of these effects shape each city’s development.
- Players
- 1–4 best 2
- Playing time
- 30 min
- Age
- 8+
- Complexity
- 1.6 / 5
About the game
- Design
- Art
- Publisher
On Ludoya's tables
Full stats in Ludoya- 7
- Plays logged
- 3
- Players
- 1
- In collections
5.9/10
from 1 Ludoya review
Evan5.9 This is a very cute filler game that takes the normal tile placement mechanisms you find in most city builder cousins, and adds some interesting wrinkles. Each turn you flip a card which has a number on it that matches a specific set of spaces on your player board. Then the start player draws a set of tiles from the bag equal to the number of players plus one, where each set has one tile per space in the numbered lot. Then each player picks a lot, and places it, doing their best to get the tiles to score according to the scoring criteria selected at the start of the round. Tiles can be placed face down as parks, and when you sink your third tile as a park, you get a one time ability to swap the locations of two tiles. It's a very limited space, that allows for a lot of game to game variation, and lots of intrigue about what lot of tiles to take and when. Enjoyed a lot and looking forward to more. :star: Art, Iconography and components functional :star: Clever or interesting mechanisms :star: Reasonably low downtime between turns with mildly AP players :star: Multiple plays stay interesting :star: Low or mitigatable luck elements :star::star::nostar::nostar::nostar: Raw enjoyment
Free, on web, Android and iOS
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