2025 · Territory Building

Papyria

Players develop a Mesopotamian-region civilization by expanding canals, founding cities, and erecting temples and sanctuaries while exploiting mines and trade goods like lapis and papyrus. On a turn, a player moves a wanderer or ship and on the destination chooses two of three action types: take tiles for a personal display or scoring multipliers, build locations (city, temple, mine), or produce goods used for construction, special actions, and end scoring. The game ends when key goods are depleted and a set of end tiles are revealed; final scoring awards points for developments, goods, and fulfilled tiles.

groupPlayers

1–4 best 3

schedulePlaying time

90–120 min

cakeAge

14+

psychologyComplexity

2.9 / 5