The dazzling boulevards and historical monuments of Paris have been enveloped by lush vegetation. The once bustling city hub has been hushed to stillness following an apocalyptic event and your goal is to forge a new future. Equip your shelter, manage your resources, and rally a community of various survivors, all while making your way through the jungle cityscape.
Paris: New Eden features a clever dice-drafting mechanism that allows you to recruit survivors. Over the span of one year, you will endeavor to build your shelter and overcome the array of obstacles that you encounter along the way. The dice allow you to recruit survivors of different types: tinkerers, brawlers, healers, sages, farmers, jacks-of-all-trades, or even useless survivors. At the end of each season, your survivors allow you to bid to improve your shelter. These survivors are recruited in five key areas and central squares of the Paris that we know, each one with different abilities:
The train station, which lets you grow your community faster
The restaurant, to collect food to feed your community
The tower, to choose the goals you can fulfill
The center, which gives you access to special equipment
The bridge, to gain access to new missions
Players score points by recruiting survivors and feeding them, by fulfilling objectives from the tower, and by completing secret missions acquired at the bridge. At winter’s end, the player who has accumulated the most victory points wins. The future of Paris is in your hands!
—description from the publisher
PARIS: NEW EDEN - 2P - Playthrough & Review
- dice drafting and building in a Neo-Paris setting
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- immersive survival narrative with varied survivor types
- dice drafting adds tension and tactical choice
- secret missions create replayability
- rules complexity can be a barrier for new players
- pacing can feel heavy during mid-to-late game
- survival, reconstruction, and community-building under pressure
- a post-apocalyptic reconstitution of urban life where once-bustling cities lie hushed in a newly dangerous world
- dice drafting drives survivor recruitment; objective-driven play with secret missions
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- Dice Drafting — players draft dice to recruit survivors and resolve actions
- Objective Fulfillment — players complete objectives and secret missions to score points
- Resource Management — managing food and other needs to keep survivors alive
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- "The future of Paris is in your dice filled hands"
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- it's about Paris in a post-apocalyptic world you gather survivors you're getting resources building building scoring points
- the board is divided into five different areas
- it's a pleasant experience
- the theme shines the brightest at a four player
- it's quick 45 minute experience