2024 · City Building

Life in Reterra

Players rebuild after a changed world by expanding a personal community from a single starter land tile. On each turn, a player selects a land tile from hand or a face-up display and adds it to their grid, matching terrain and respecting a four-tile limit in each direction. Some tile spaces show gears that allow placing inhabitants or assembling buildings from multi-part building tiles; all parts of a building must sit on gears of the same terrain type. Placed buildings grant ongoing powers usable once on later turns, and relics and special energy tiles provide additional scoring opportunities. The game ends when each player has sixteen tiles; scoring rewards large connected terrain blocks, surrounded energy sources, inhabitants, relics, and majority or set-based building objectives.

groupPlayers

2–4 best 4

schedulePlaying time

35 min

cakeAge

10+

psychologyComplexity

2 / 5