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A brand new edition of a popular classic, London will appeal to the strategic thinker among board game fans. Tasked with rebuilding London in the decades following the great fire, players juggle building requirements, bank loans, and poverty as they strive to realize their vision for the city.
The game features a unique mechanism of playing cards to develop the city, then "running" the city by taking all the card actions simultaneously. Players have to repay all their loans before the game ends, but need to worry only about how much poverty they're creating relative to the other players.
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Year Published
2017
Transcript Analysis
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Adam Porter top_10_list at 15:52 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Heavier, strategic euro with clear drive
- Beautiful production and updated mechanics
- Strong thematic resonance
Cons
- Brutal poverty mechanic may not appeal to all
- Setup and play-time can be lengthy
Thematic elements
- city-building, poverty management
- London, England
- euro-style with thematic constraints
Comparison games
- Agricola
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- City-building with poverty tracking — Develop districts, manage poverty, and balance resources.
- Deck drawing and activation — Draw city cards and activate effects; some cards flip facedown.
- round-based play with end scoring — End scoring based on city tiles, tokens, and poverty management.
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Quotes (from this video)
- this is one of those very simple little games where I played it and I thought I wish I'd thought of that
- Accessible everybody can understand it
- it's the best real-time cooperative game that I've played
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Foster the Meeple top_10_list at 6:47 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Beautiful theme integration
- Strategic open drafting allows counterplay
- Engaging engine building
- Excellent design
- Multiple synergies between cards
- Great production quality
Cons
- Some downtime between turns
- Can feel overwhelming with options
Thematic elements
- City building, Economic development
- Victorian London
- Strategic city development
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card activation — Action cards in secondary phase
- engine building — Build economic engine with synergistic effects
- open drafting — All players see available cards for selection
- tableau building — Build tableau of cards representing city development
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Quotes (from this video)
- Lord of the Rings a confrontation is an amazing two-player only game and it's essentially like Stratego
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- Mansions of Madness second edition this I think Will Always Forever ever be one of my favorite games
- an acrony is a worker placement game with a unique twist
- Obsession is like Downton Abbey Bridgerton the board game
- I love polyaminos I love polyamino towels I think they're amazing and they're cats
- Shores of Tripoli is a two-player card event based war game
- root everybody plays a different faction of some type of Woodland creature
- dwellings of Elder Veil is a hand management worker placement game
- kanban ev is a car building game you are working in a car factory
- we just like love this game it comes with us when we travel
- Rise of Fenris is still one of the best board gaming experiences I've ever had
- Unmatched is a head-to-head battle game where you are playing as a character
- the Simplicity of it it gives so much depth but it's so easy to play
- Twilight's struggle is a game I'm still continuing to explore
- I don't drink wine but I love viticulture
- Wonderland's War gives me everything that I enjoy in board games
- Scout is a small box card game I love it
- Star Wars Imperial assault this is the highest campaign game currently on my list
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