Civilization · Economic

Age of Renaissance

A game that is often described as a semi-sequel to Civilization.

3–6 players300 minages 12heavy difficulty

About the game

What is Age of Renaissance

A game that is often described as a semi-sequel to Civilization.

Players attempt to build up their cultures during the Middle Ages and Renaissance periods. The game features a card deck that holds events, payout cards, and famous leaders of the particular eras. Although all cards will turn up somewhere during the game, the timing and position in which they will be played is crucial and will ensure a different game every time.

The main goal of each city-state is to gain points in the form of technical advances, while keeping their culture's misery level as low as possible. The payout structure is similar to those of Civilization and Advanced Civilization in that more resources of the same type yield increasingly higher payouts. This time particular payouts are triggered by card play for every player at once. An ingenious and very smooth working “combat” system is implemented to determine province – and thus resource - control.

Specs

Game details

Players: 3–6
Age: +12
Duration: 300 min
Difficulty: Heavy
Type: Board game
Year: 1996
Mechanics: Area Movement · Auction / Bidding · Simulation
Categories: Civilization · Economic · Medieval
Designer: Don Greenwood · Jared Scarborough
Publisher: The Avalon Hill Game Co · Descartes Editeur

Images

Age of Renaissance gallery

Community data

Age of Renaissance on Meeplay

See what the Meeplay community plays and thinks about Age of Renaissance, and add your own plays to the record.

3Plays logged

10Own it in their collection

7.3Average rating

Find Age of Renaissance players

Reviews

What the community says about Age of Renaissance

davidarribas5/10

Considerado por muchos de mi entorno como un clásico, lei las reglas y siendo como es un juego de 1996 no entiendo la longitud del juego, ni la cantidad de calculos que te obligan a realizar, sin contar que para que esté un poco igualado debes realizar unos ligeros cambios en las reglas y en el tablero, cuando se publicó ya era un juego demasiado pesado para ser de negociación, en 1996 ya estaba en el mercado Quo Vadis? y Los Colonos de Catan, si el juego hubiera salido a finales de los 80 sería un clásico sin lugar a dudas, pero actualmente hay juegos de Negociación mucho mejores y mas ligero

Discover more