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Dungeons & Dragons: Builders of Baldur's Gate

Game ID: GID0452178
Game Info
Year
2025
Players
2-4
Age
14+
Playtime
90 min
Complexity
2.9/5
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Description

City-building and resource management game where players lead powerful families growing prestige by building businesses across nine districts

Description

City-building and resource management game where players lead powerful families growing prestige by building businesses across nine districts

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Video c1mINKH_9g8 Discussion at 16:54:40 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
  • Solid game
  • Euro set in Dungeons and Dragons world
  • Interesting worker placement with displacement
Cons
  • Thematic attacks feel disconnected
  • Easy to run away with a victory
  • Worker can get stranded
  • Large score difference in one play
Thematic elements
  • Dungeons and Dragons world
  • Baldur's Gate
Comparison games
  • Lords of Water Deep
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Area Control — the buildings that are all connected and you're trying to build the buildings in a way that gets you bonuses by other people building around it.
  • Resource management — managing resources
  • tableau building — the tableau that you build using the buildings
  • worker placement — worker placement aspect of the game where there's eight different districts. Each district has two actions that you can do by placing your worker there.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • It feels like a classic card game just in terms of like the you you're you bid the number of tricks you're going to win, but you have to be you have to be exactly right.
  • Thematically I think it doesn't land like there
  • It still feels satisfying to get a good engine going.
  • It's just like, fun, lighthearted competition.
  • Sky Team is absolutely incredible. It is so tense. It is so good.
  • It's a game where you feel like you've earned your victory.
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Video CWBtUoEBDCQ Watch It Played Rules Teach at 0:00
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Video MsdXkOQLfPI Cardboard Herald Top 10 List at 6:18 sentiment: positive
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positive
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Quotes (from this video)
  • This wacky deck builder is just so much pure fun.
  • one of the greatest ratios of fun to rules complexity ratio I have ever seen
  • I could play this for hours and hours and hours on end and never get bored.
  • space age rocket launching good old time.
  • The secrecy of playing cards face down and never knowing if you're winning a lane.
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