Cities: You have one job!
Posted: 03 December 2025, 14:01
You are an urban developer whose job is to build a new neighborhood in major cities like Sydney, Venice, New York, Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, Lisbon, Mexico City, and Buenos Aires. The city council is counting on you to transform a whole area of the city and make it a better place.
The game is played over 8 rounds. Each round, you can use workers to collect 1 scoring card, 1 city tile, 1-2 feature tiles, and 2-4 building pieces. City tiles are made up of park, water, and building spaces. Building pieces are placed on building spaces of matching colors to form buildings, which can be 1-4 stories high. Scoring cards, and the city achievement boards, provide objectives for players to complete to score points at game end. Whoever scores the most Victory points has built the most fantastic neighborhood and wins the game!
There you go, you have the basics to play Cities, recommended for SPIEL 2025 Game of the Year and nominated for several awards globally. Do not hesitate to unleash the architect/urban planner in you and embrace this straightforward, strategic city-building game. Dive into the tutorial to build your first neighborhood or jump right in:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=cities
It is now time to celebrate the game designers, Steve Finn and Phil Walker-Harding, as well as Devir Games, the publisher, for the release of Cities on BGA. And our gratitude goes to LeSteffen for another fantastic adaptation for our platform.
That's our Wednesday release, part of the WINTER of GAMES 2025 calendar.
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See you soon, and as always, take care and play fair!
