City Building · Environmental

Quadropolis

Each player builds their own metropolis in Quadropolis (first announced as City Mania), but they're competing with one another for the shops, parks, public services and other structures to be placed in them.

2–4 players60 minages 8medium difficulty

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What is Quadropolis

The game lasts four rounds, and in each round players first lay out tiles for the appropriate round at random on a 5x5 grid. Each player has four architects numbered 1-4 and on a turn, a player places an architect next to a row or column in the grid, claims the tile that's as far in as the number of the architect placed (e.g., the fourth tile in for architect #4), places that tile in the appropriately numbered row or column on the player's 4x4 city board, then claims any resources associated with the tile (inhabitants or energy).

When a player takes a tile, a figure is placed in this now-empty space and the next player cannot place an architect in the same row or column where this tile was located. In addition, you can't place one architect on top of another, so each placement cuts off play options for you and everyone else later in the round. After all players have placed all four architects, the round ends, all remaining tiles are removed, and the tiles for the next round laid out.

After four rounds, the game ends. Players can move the inhabitants and energy among their tiles at any point during the game to see how to maximize their score. At game end, they then score for each of the six types of buildings depending on how well they build their city — as long as they have activated the buildings with inhabitants or energy as required:

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Game details

Players: 2–4
Age: +8
Duration: 60 min
Difficulty: Medium
Type: Board game
Year: 2016
Mechanics: Hand Management · Pattern Building · Set Collection
Categories: City Building · Environmental
Designer: François Gandon
Publisher: Days of Wonder

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majohnny7/10

Tile selection city builder. Kind of mathematical and probably there's an optimal solution you should try to get every time. We are not at that point yet though, so it's still fun to try to figure out what to use. Nice interaction between power producing and power consuming buildings.