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Year
2000
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Description
Set in the Italian countryside, La Città features various city-states vying for population. Each player starts with two cities and is charged with expanding the different aspects of those cities to attract larger populations.
Players build farms to feed their people, quarries to finance their expansions, marketplaces to allow growth in their cities, and bathhouses to keep their people clean and healthy. Additionally, structures can be built that give the city influence in one of three categories; superiority in one of these categories causes population to shift from other nearby cities when the "Voice of the People" is decided at the end of each turn.
At the end of six turns, the player with the most points — which are distributed for well-rounded cities, well-fed populations, and the overall size of population — wins.
Note: The correct pronunciation is like "Cheetah", but with the accent on the last syllable: "La Chee-TAH".
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Getting Games Games Radar Vlog at 30:22 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Highly Positive
Pros
- Appears to be a very cool 'mean Euro' game.
- The 2024 version includes a new expansion with new buildings, politics cards, and terrain tiles.
- Likely to be a visually appealing game due to the publisher.
- The host enjoys older elegant Euros with direct player interaction.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Attracting citizens to cities and feeding them
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Players occupy spots on the board with cubes (or similar components).
- Card Drafting — The new version includes new Politics cards.
- Resource Management — Players must feed their citizens.
- Tableau Building — The game involves building out an area in front of the player, potentially with new buildings and terrain tiles in the 2024 version.
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- Tiny Epic Game of Thrones it's a 2024 game it says assume the role of a mighty House of the Seven Kingdoms
- players utilize an Innovative limited action dice mechanism M to strategically choose cards such as plot whisper event March and sail with the options to follow other players actions
- players will yield an immense amount of Power with their respective houses through a versatile hand of multi-use cards that allow players to plot against the influential houses of Westeros orchestrate grandio events and partake in exhilarating battles
- Worms span I'm being factious this is like one of the most talked about games over the last few weeks this is a reimplementation of wingspan all about dragons
- Build a cavernous Sanctuary for Dragons of all shapes and sizes
- your player board starts out small they're caves and at the beginning of the game your cave is Tiny I think there's only room for one Dragon but as you play through the game you can dig out your cave allowing you to put more dragons in there
- Wormspan looks cool I like dragons I think they're cool I think the artwork looks neat
- I'm intrigued like wingspan is one of the more popular games to come out in the last seven years and here is a follow-up game with a new theme and some new mechanics I want to see how this one goes
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Board Gaming Ramblings Other at 22:25 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
- Fun to play once.
Cons
- Too many games exist to warrant playing this one again.
- The theme of city building and population dynamics was present but not compelling enough for repeat plays.
Thematic elements
- Building cities and population growth/migration
- City building
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Majority — It's a majority because if I get close enough to your city and the people then demand culture and your city has less culture than mine, people from your city will transfer and live in my city instead.
- city building — you are building up cities.
- player interaction — And also if you have like a city and a lot of people build close to you and steal all your people, your city crumbles to the ground.
- population management — the points are the people living in your cities. And if you have space for them that is because you can also get too many people or not enough food for the people, they then leave.
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- Keep or Cull the series where we play a lot of games and then decide if we want to keep it in the collection or call them out of the collection.
- It's a double cow, which is sad because I really wanted to like this game. And it's not that I didn't like it. It's just that it was fine.
- But it was a in this genre I enjoyed it, but I'm the more of these I play, the more I'm like, I want to go back and play Fury Dracula, which is basically more straightforward where it doesn't take 16 hours to play.
- I was a little unsure because it was fun. But there's so many games. It's I'm I'm very happy to have played it, but I will never choose to play it again.
- Probably Bone Wars or Cudilero. So, I'm going to go Kudro because you had the other one.
- And best uh I think I liked the trick takers the most.
- But here we have a crazy good deal for you for $0 and0 or whatever currency you use in your country. You can subscription to this series forever.
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