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In Pier 18, you take on the role of a Victorian pier builder as you compete to create the country’s greatest seaside pier. Using only 18 cards, you’ll draft and position sections of pier, building your unique structure outwards to sea in an effort to score the most victory points.
During a player's turn they will draft one of the cards from the centre of the table and add this to their pier. This will make their pier larger but depending on how they place it can score them more or less points. The game ends when there are no cards left to draft and players tally up their in game (scoring the highest of that patron that round) and end gamepoints (a
total of all icons scored) to determine who is the winner.
Victory points are earned by meeting the needs of pier visitors and workers, as well as satisfying the demands of powerful patrons, who’ll lend their support to one pier at the end of every round. You also choose a personal goal that you’ll attempt to fulfill throughout the course of the game.
After a number of rounds the player with the most victory points wins the game, and is crowned greatest pier builder of their generation!
- Compact and elegant in size
- High replay potential for such a small card pool
- card drafting and scoring optimization
- harbor pier with shipping and development
- tight, quick drafting puzzle with varied scoring goals
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- 18-card drafting — drafting 18 cards that each offer multiple scoring opportunities.
- Compound Scoring — each card’s icons trigger different end-game scoring goals.
- multi-criteria scoring — each card’s icons trigger different end-game scoring goals.
- varied end-game goals — 18 distinct end-game goals create multiple victory paths.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- this is probably our our most played of the games that we're going to be talking about
- I think if your group likes combat games and likes that kind of almost push your luck
- I just want all games like this we can fit so many we can have so many games
- this is probably my favorite of all of alley cat's games
- it's a real chess match feel to it
- the conveyor belt is going to keep moving whether you like it or not