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Drafting just enough for the city
Designer: Paul Sottosanti | Artist: Christian Opperer
City-building, tile-laying drafting games have become something of a mainstay in the tabletop hobby. There’s the historically-themed Warsaw: City of Ruin, which tasks players with building prosperous districts of Poland’s capital. There’s the head-scratching Between Two Cities, which sees competitors simultaneously building a pair of cities in co-operation with their rivals. There’s the rules-light but deeply absorbing Quadropolis, which emphasises cutting off other players’ choices as well as making your own. Even games like the sci-fi space station-builder Among the Stars employ similar ideas.