Game Info
Year
2025
Players
2-4
Age
12+
Playtime
90 min
Complexity
4/5
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Description
Economic city-building game solving Chicago sanitation crisis by elevating streets and securing contracts for raising buildings
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positive
Pros
- Strategic placement of buildings is key.
- Close game with a tight finish.
- Thematic integration of building and developing Chicago.
- Interesting resource management and poverty track mechanics.
Cons
- Potential for going down the poverty track if resources are mismanaged.
- Can be punishing if players cannot afford to build.
Thematic elements
- Organizing and developing the city of Chicago by raising new buildings and moving old ones.
- Chicago
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Players compete for control of neighborhoods and wards based on the number of levels built.
- bidding — Players use bidding markers to compete for project tiles and resource cards.
- hand management — Managing resource cards and their effects.
- Resource management — Collecting and spending resources (lumber, jack screw, masonry, brick) to build buildings.
- set collection — Collecting sets of symbol tokens for endgame scoring.
- Track advancement — Moving up various tracks on the player board to unlock resources and benefits.
- worker placement — Placing bidding markers on resource cards to gain resources or claim projects.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Players will be using building pieces to bid for various building projects, which will be placed onto the main board as Chicago grows up into a new and modern city.
- The player with the most bidding markers on the board will place one of their pieces onto an empty space on a resource card.
- Working your way up these tracks is beneficial as they will unlock permanent resources which stay on your board.
- The player with the highest reputation wins.
- It's like that Home Alone 2 where he's chucking the bricks at my That is Chicago.
- The cool thing is is if you don't follow through on your deal here in Chicago, they just break your legs.
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