Game Info
Year
2025
Players
1-5
Age
12+
Playtime
90 min
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Description
City-building tile placement game set after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 where players manage zoning and expansion of neighborhoods
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Rules Teach at 1:22 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- The game has strategic depth and allows for varied approaches.
- The game has high player interaction.
- The game can be played quickly once understood.
- The game offers interesting timing and tempo decisions.
Cons
- Can be complex to learn initially.
- Placing buildings can be challenging due to space constraints and layout decisions.
- Some card scoring mechanisms might be perceived as very strong, potentially leading to very high scores.
Thematic elements
- Overseeing the rapid rebuilding effort of Chicago after a great fire
- Chicago after the great fire of 1871
Comparison games
- Rebuilding Seattle
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Players aim to maximize their quality of amenities relative to unhappy population in their district.
- hand management — Players acquire and play cards with various abilities and scoring conditions.
- set collection — Points are awarded for specific arrangements of buildings and icons, encouraging players to collect sets.
- tile placement — Players place suburb tiles and buildings on their player boards to expand their districts.
- Variable player powers — Each player starts with an asymmetric player board and unique laws.
- worker placement — Players take turns performing actions, with the timing and order of actions being crucial.
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Quotes (from this video)
- You're not going to get any opinions from us in this video.
- We're here to show you how the game plays and help you make a decision about whether it's the kind of game you are going to like.
- Rebuilding Seattle was generally regarded from the people who I've played it with as a very good game, but it kind of went a bit under the radar.
- As your district's older person, you are tasked with overseeing the rapid rebuilding effort.
- The core mechanism of this game is that each round a certain number of unhappy people will appear in your district of the city.
- It is balancing increasing the quality of your amenities whilst also building more amenities.
- The timing of these is really important.
- It is a little bit tricky to get your head around, but once you've got your head around it, you're okay.
- There's so many things you want to do in this game.
- This is the important rule in this game. If it says tile, this is one tile.
- The differences between this and rebuilding Seattle is this is a new card. The fact that every one of these comes with rubble, which is a bad thing.
- This is not a long game. You can play this game three players in an hour easily.
- It's really sandboxy.
- The game can let you down one road.
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Video jfW0HMxeeLQ
Review at 0:02 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Challenging gameplay with precise timing and decision-making.
- Puzzly nature of polyomino tile-laying.
- Engaging economy management and meeting citizen needs.
- Player-driven events that require strategic timing.
- Deeper decision-making due to choices on card activation.
- Increased challenge compared to Rebuilding Seattle.
Cons
- Can be too challenging for some players, especially those who preferred the easier pace of Rebuilding Seattle.
- The choice on card activation means less set collection for in-game scoring compared to the previous game.
Thematic elements
- Rebuilding a city after a massive fire
- 1871 Chicago
Comparison games
- Rebuilding Seattle
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Event Activation — Players can choose to activate one of several available events on their turn, which affects all players.
- Law Activation — Players can enact one of their available law powers.
- Resource management — Players manage money and need to balance spending for buildings with the need to trigger events for income.
- set collection — While less prominent than in the previous game, players still build up different types of districts (shopping, dining, entertainment, etc.) which influence scoring.
- solo mode AI — An automated opponent manages actions and event triggers in the solo game.
- tile placement — Players place polyomino tiles to rebuild the city, which can cover rubble or build new structures.
- Variable player powers — Starting districts provide different initial layouts and opportunities.
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- This one is a much more challenging beast that requires precise timing and um, you know, decision-making or you will find yourself suffering.
- But what's really wonderful about the system is the player-driven events.
- There are now twice as many decisions you have to make cuz not only do I decide what card I'm going to buy, but also what side of the card I'm going to activate.
- if you do not stay ahead of the rubble, if you do not get this stuff covered up and at the same time build statues, the hardest thing to come across in this game, making uh you know, you know, they're rarer than hens' teeth, and as they come up, you better grab them while you can because if you don't, three times over the course of the game, you will suffer a huge, crushing penalty that will really set you back.
- It's Ticket to Ride versus Ticket to Ride Europe all over again.
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