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Description
Modern day markets offers to their visitors various kind of stands, restaurants, and services.
In Mercado de Lisboa, players buy stands in the market, open new businesses that influence those stands, and bring customers to them.
Mercado de Lisboa is a thinky filler title, a tile-placement game based upon the Lisboa city-building system in which players pay money to own stands in the market, open restaurants next to them to improve their profit and bring in customers that earn money for players with matching stands. Mercado de Lisboa is a fast-paced game, very straightforward and easy to learn rules with deep tactical choices.
Year Published
2021
Transcript Analysis
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Allies or Enemies general_discussion at 15:11 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- beautiful presentation; elegant flow for a subgame of Lisboa
Cons
- feels like a portion of a larger game; may feel incomplete standalone
Thematic elements
- Market stalls and customer flow
- Lisbon market district; card-driven economic activity
- Structured, strategic
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card pyramid and hand management — Build a hand from a pyramid and use customers to earn coins.
- hand management — Build a hand from a pyramid and use customers to earn coins.
- Rondel — Use a rondelle to choose actions and place workers to build stalls.
- Rondelle/board action selection — Use a rondelle to choose actions and place workers to build stalls.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- it's a really cool simple combo
- it moves so fast
- it's a two player version honestly works fine
- it's like 10 pounds like it's a very cheap game we got a lot of play out of it
- the monsters play very differently to how the ones in the original one do so i really like having both versions to play through
- it's a rondelle game where you've got workers
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John Gets Games general_discussion at 26:55 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- highly regarded production and design
- offers deep economic decision space
Cons
- can be complex to teach
Thematic elements
- shared incentives and market dynamics
- Lisbon market economy
- economic Eurogame
Comparison games
- Gallerist
- On Mars
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- shared incentives — influence and cooperation in a competitive market.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- "Point City... looks like this really cool game about pretty tactical about building up a really streamlined engine and just trying to get a bunch of points"
- "I’ve been fatigued by rolling rights"
- "the more you pull back or pull me back from being like in instruction mode the faster you’re going to find I end up"
- "Nostalgia definitely does apply"
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Rolling Dice and Taking Names general_discussion at 1:17:49 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- tight, thinky decisions
- strong theme integration with market dynamics
Cons
- rules can be confusing; learning curve
- deluxe and Kickstarter editions may be pricey
Thematic elements
- merchant street market economy
- Historic Lisbon market and trade
- economic simulation with sharp tactical choices
Comparison games
- Ragusa
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bidding_and_stands — players place merchant stands and restaurants to attract customers
- economy_and_market_fluctuation — market values shift with events and purchases across rounds
- market_matching_and_orthogonality — customers demand certain goods; matching orthogonal market aligns with stands for payout
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- it's an abstract game okay so you are basically building a little high rise
- this is a solid 30 to 45 minute game
- lines in the patterns to help you count
- not a filler — this is a solid 30 to 45 minute game
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Chairman of the Board general_discussion at 0:32 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Stunning production and visual aesthetic
- Accessible depth for a lighter abstract
Cons
- Depth not as deep as expected; decisions become obvious after learning
Thematic elements
- market optimization and customer satisfaction
- abstract market/shops in Lisbon; subset of the Lisboa game
- abstract
Comparison games
- Lisboa
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- scoring multipliers / resource management — achieving larger multipliers by satisfying demand
- tile placement — placing shop tiles to meet customer needs and maximize points
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- the production and the visual aesthetic of the game was absolutely stunning
- the decisions were relatively uninteresting and pretty obvious once you've groked the game
- one and done style game so once you've done one of the missions you've experienced it can't go play it again
- it's a gorgeous looking game
- the money in this game, particularly in the first half was extremely tight
- this game's out there that I enjoy more that are faster they're a bit more succinct
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