Designer: Emerson Matsuuchi | Artist: Chris Quilliams, Atha Kanaani
You’ve got to hand it to Emerson Matsuuchi. Century: A New World doesn’t just mark the finale of his none-more-Euro, cube-trading, 300-year-spanning trilogy. It also marks the last part of a triptych that, thanks to his ‘mixable game’ design ambition, combines in a variety of ways to create no fewer than seven variants. In addition to the three base games (Spice Road, Eastern Wonders and this), there is a fourth which combines the first two, two more which each combine A New World with one of its prequels and an epic seventh which bundles together all three.