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Agora Barcelona

Game ID: GID0018138
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Year
2005
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Overview:
Ever since Barcelona was founded its citizens, of whatever class or condition, have taken advantage of their moments of leisure to stroll around the city's squares, always finding time to visit their local neighborhood plaça or some other square a little further away. Whether imposing or intimate, latest-generation or laden with legends, verdantly planted or starkly concrete, the squares of Barcelona are genuine spaces of communication and enjoyment.

Agora Barcelona is a majority game played on the street map of Barcelona, as the players try to occupy more and more squares with their strollers.

Description

Overview:
Ever since Barcelona was founded its citizens, of whatever class or condition, have taken advantage of their moments of leisure to stroll around the city's squares, always finding time to visit their local neighborhood plaça or some other square a little further away. Whether imposing or intimate, latest-generation or laden with legends, verdantly planted or starkly concrete, the squares of Barcelona are genuine spaces of communication and enjoyment.

Agora Barcelona is a majority game played on the street map of Barcelona, as the players try to occupy more and more squares with their strollers.

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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
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Cons
  • Paced through review; not strongly positive
Thematic elements
  • City-building with decorative meeples
  • Board game with meles/meeples concept
  • museum-like
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Area Control — Meeples with dresses, non-traditional shapes
  • Area control / mosaic-like placement — Meeples with dresses, non-traditional shapes
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  • Look Back, where I take a look at reviews that I did a year ago, 5 years ago, 10 years ago, and 20 years ago this week, and tell you what I think about them now.
  • This game was very much a Sudoku board game. I would play it a whole lot less today.
  • It's now impossible to find. It has not been reprinted for a lot of uh litigation reasons.
  • I think the second game in the Dice Tower Essentials line.
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