by Esbjörn Rundberg.

Through three eras the players expand the common village both sideways and upwards as they each offer their addition to secure money and fame for their guilds.

Presentation

  • Time: 60-120 min
  • Players: 2 – 4
  • Language: English

Be the best at building a city together
Start at the humble beginnings of a little village and build it up together with your fellow builders, while ensuring to be the one with the best favour among the guilds and money on hand to be the one to receive the key to the city!

Each building added will generate new opportunities to place the next, both for you and your opponents, for an ever more expansive city, first in width, later in height.

The City Builders is a quick and easy game played over three eras, where you on your turn have to place one building to the common city in the centre of the table, using the resources available from all the existing buildings in the city to get the best effect from your placement.

The game structure
A turn is very simple; play a building, gain your reward and take a new building from the offer.

If the offer can not be refilled, it signals the end of the current era with the opportunity to score your hidden objective. After the third era the end of the game is triggered.

How to play a card?
To play a card (i.e. build a building), use the resources from the, up to four, adjacent buildings can be used. For any missing resource you have to cover the difference with valuable coins.

Once placed, the new building will provide resources for all future placements of all builders.

As the eras progress, new buildings with higher levels will be available, that can replace older and less valuable buildings in the emerging city.

About the designer

Esbjörn Rundberg