City Building · Civilization

Watershed Arizona

2–5 players150 minages 10

About the game

What is Watershed Arizona

Throughout what is now known as Arizona, ancient civilizations constructed epic cities, harnessed the powerful and unpredictable rivers to water crops and sustain their communities, and thrived for thousands of years. Eventually, the unpredictability of the seasons, the power of the floods, and the fragility of infrastructure contributed to the abandonment of cities--leaving only ruins to mark these impressive achievements.

Today, modern technology and sheer hubris have resulted in a new set of settlements that again attempt to thrive in one of the world’s harshest and driest climates. With the help of modern engineering marvels like the Hoover Dam and the Central Arizona Project canal, more than 7 million people call Arizona home and over 100,000 more residents move there each year. How long can this continue before, like other civilizations of old, nature asserts its dominance and returns the cities to dust?

Watershed: Arizona is a turn-based asymmetrical game played in rounds. Each round consists of the following:

1. Revealing climate conditions card which modifies the precipitation coming to the watersheds

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