2022 · City Building

Hamlet: The Village Building Game

Players cooperatively and competitively build a shared village by placing irregularly shaped building tiles that interlock without a grid. Each building offers functions — producing materials, refining resources, generating income or enabling deliveries — and villagers move along the organically formed paths to carry food and construction goods to households and sites. Tiles and paths change every game, creating a shifting, communal economy where players contribute to a central hamlet and race to be the leading benefactor when the village’s landmark church is completed. Supports 1–4 players with a designed solo mode.

groupPlayers

1–4 best 3

schedulePlaying time

25–100 min

cakeAge

14+

psychologyComplexity

2.9 / 5