Prepare yourself for a fierce duel. Cleverly use the features of the four different families to snatch the most valuable gangsters away from your opponent. Your goal? To have the best gang at the end of the game.
In Famiglia, the players collect gangsters with the goal of collecting the highest-valued gangsters. With the exception of the 0-value gangsters, a player normally needs two identical gangsters (same family and same value) to be able to take a gangster with the next highest value of the same family. When a player does this, they place one of the smaller gangsters from their hand into their play area. To get higher-valued gangsters faster, the player may use the special abilities of the different families at the cost of placing more gangsters in their play area. By doing so, a player may reduce their options and so must carefully plan these actions in order to end the game with the most influential gang.
- two-player card game
- very good two-player game
- slightly unusual mechanics
- fantastic artwork
- clever design
- available in English
- solitaire version available
- great game
- theme doesn't come through well
- odd card shape hard to shuffle
- mafia
- economic
- card_game
- two_player
- Power Grid
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- the whole game is a pad of paper it doesn't even come in a box
- It's a Party game but a very odd party game
- you're really really going to need the right group to play it
- it's something very odd and very unique
- Freedman fre is constantly revisiting old themes
- good fun game really good game
- this is frieza's other serious game along with power grid
- a meaty game it's got a ton of um strategy and tactical elements in it
- this is one of the best it's certainly the best stocks and shares game to play with two players
- the game has been practically killed off in its reputation because of its rule book
- this game is Pure Freedom and freeze
- this is very classic freeze
- an obscure game it's only available in German
- a very good very entertaining game with quite a lot of meat on it for for a simple card game
- it's a trick taking game at its simplest
- it's just an odd way of playing a card game a lot of fun though
- a straight up fairly you know um well cleverly designed fairly serious um two-player uh competitive card game
- it's um it's always nice when Freedman Freez is experimenting with uh different ideas