Village Board Game

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Product Feature

• Winner of multiple awards including the Kennerspiel des Jahres
• 7.73 Average rating on BGG, ranked #102
• 2 to 4 players; 75 minutes playtime

Product Description

Life in the village is hard - but life here also allows the inhabitants to grow and prosper as they please. One villager might want to become a friar. Another might feel ambitious and strive for a career in public office. A third one might want to seek his luck in distant lands.

Each player will take the reins of a family and have them find fame and glory in many different ways. There is one thing you must not forget, however: Time will not stop for anyone and with time people will vanish. Those who will find themselves immortalized in the village chronicles will bring honor to their family and be one step closer to victory.

Village is a game full of tactical challenges. A smart and unique new action mechanism is responsible for keeping turns short and yet still tactically rich and full of difficult decisions. Also unique is the way this game deals with the delicate subject of death; as a natural and perpetual part of life in the village, thoughts of death will keep you focused on smart time-management.

Village Board Game Review

Village is a brand new board game that is familiar in some ways and unique in others. In the Village, there are several places on the board where a variety of cubes are placed, based on the number of players. On your turn, you take one cube from the area of the board where you want to perform that action: some actions are adding family members (there are four generations that get added to the board - you start with the first generation and add the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th during the game), getting livestock or tools, traveling to other villages, becoming a council member, joining the clergy, or going to sell at the market. Each player takes turns until all of the cubes have been taken. Those cubes that you have collected are used to do your actions. All of that is the familiar stuff.

Here is where it gets a bit different from other Euro games. Time is a factor in this game and it can be used up in several ways. One of them is by getting the plague. Up to six cubes that are randomly placed onto the board are black plague cubes, meaning that for every black cube taken during the round, you lose two time units. You can also use up time doing various tasks in the village instead of spending cubes to do actions. The second unique thing about this game is that when you run out of time, a family member dies (some might say that you have to kill them).

Now when a family member dies, you get to decide who dies, but it has to be a member of the youngest generation that you have left. So if you have a 1st generation member in the church and a 2nd generation member traveling, you would have to pick the 1st generation member from the church to die until all 1st generation are dead, then you have to choose a 2nd generation member until they are all dead, etc. Who you chose to die is important because when they die, you want to place them in the village chronicle, which you get points at the end of the game. Those chronicle spaces are specific to locations in the village where the person died and they are limited. So there might be three chronicle spaces for people who worked in the council and they can be filled up by any player who had a person who died working in the council. Once those spaces are filled up, you must instead bury the person in a common grave, which awards no points. So you can see how placing family members on the board during the game and choosing who should die is important.

Another unique thing is that at the end of every round, a mass is held, and members can be added to the clergy and moved up in ranks during the masses, getting you more points at the end. The game ends when a player fills up either the last chronicle space or the last common grave space.

I think that this game is fantastic. Not only do you get the usual dilemma of trying to get the cubes you need so that can do the actions you want, but then you have the issue of time running out and deciding who you want to die off (or kill!). Do you try to use up time quickly to kill members (collect plague cubes and use time instead of cubes for actions) to get them in the chronicle first to get more points, or do you try to keep them alive as long as possible so they can keep doing actions in the village that can get you more points?

I have three plays in and absolutely love this game. Great strategy, great balance, various routes to victory, unique concepts. Highly recommended.

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