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Founders of Teotihuacan

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  1. Thinky polyomino game with clean, interconnected mechanics. There seem to be several viable paths to victory and the worker placement bonuses keep the game feeling interactive. Sometimes you want another player to take a space so you get a discount, sometimes you're desperate for the first placement bonus. Good stuff, even if the tile placement part is probably where you'll be spending the least of your brain power.

  2. 6 out of 10

    I am always on the hunt for a polyomino tile-placement game (my fave mechanism) that checks all my boxes. Founders of Teo join other recently highly anticipated but major disappointments — Planet Unknown & Tenpenny Parks. The game wants to restrict you in every way possible and takes away all the joy of putting fun shapes together. The mediocre gameplay is made worse by a full-size box and really boring/lazy art, graphic design & lack of quality components. Considering how uninspiring the production quality is, this would have done better in a dry-erase drawing format with some additional components like Isle Of Cats: Explore & Draw.

  3. 6 out of 10

    An alright polyomino game. Has a little more going on than the average polyomino-focused game which I like. The action selection mechanic is decent and you do get to build a step pyramid like in Teotihuacan, but they aren't especially compelling unfortunately (not to mention going with cardboard tiles means it lacks the toy factor of the chunky wooden blocks!). You won't have that many turns so it feels a little incomplete at the end, though it's not a particularly restrictive feeling game. It's not bad, but it lacking in any particular hook.

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Travel back in time to the founding of one of the greatest cities of Mesoamerica and become a part of its history once again. Design the foundations of a great pre-Columbian civilization, with its buildings, temples, and a grand pyramid in the center. Find perfect locations for production buildings and great temples, and build the might of the great pyramid overlooking your city. Establish yourself as the very best among competing architects, and your project will secure you a spot among the great Founders of Teotihuacan!

Founders of Teotihuacan is a strategy game where you compete against your friends to create the best design of the city of Teotihuacan. Over the course of three to four rounds you will place your action disks to the main board, forming towers of varying strength, strategically use the bonuses they offer, and construct temples, resource buildings and the pyramid central to your project of Teotihuacan. You will balance generating resources and using them, as finding good locations on your city board becomes increasingly more difficult, and you will try to outwit your opponents, making use of an innovative and interactive action system. Finally, once the eclipse comes, all designs will be assessed and the player with the most points will win and become the architect to join the ranks of Founders of Teotihuacan!

Founders of Teotihuacan is a stand-alone game, related to Teotihuacan: City of Gods only by the shared setting of the ancient city of Teotihuacan. Thematically, the events in Founders takes place at an earlier time in history, while what was to become a magnificent city was yet in its infancy and only few inhabited the area.

On your turn, you must either perform an Action or pass. To perform an Action, place between 1 and 3 of your Action disks on an Action space on the Main board that already contains at least one disk (minimum a Bonus disk and possibly also opponent disk(s)), and carry out a corresponding Action. The Action disk(s) should be placed on top of the disk(s) already on that space, forming a stack. Each Action space can hold a maximum of 4 Action disks—including Bonus disks!

Your personal player board is divided into four Districts or quadrants. Buildings and Temples can only be placed within the two Districts closest to your Architect. Pyramid tiles can only be placed within the six Pyramid squares closest to your Architect. Your Action Strength is equal to the total number of disks (whether yours, an opponent’s disks, or Bonus disks) on an Action space.

After performing an Action (not when passing), move your Architect clockwise to the next side of your Player board, signifying
the end of your turn. This changes your Architect’s Reach for your next turn. After all players have passed, the current round ends.

After the game has ended, players score additional Victory Points for how well their Districts complement their Pyramid.

—description from the publisher

Ages

14+
Players

Solo, 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players
Play Time

45m – 60m
Designer

Filip Głowacz
Mechanics

Action Points, Contracts, End Game Bonuses, Market, Turn Order: Progressive, Tile Placement, Worker Placement
Theme

City Building, Ancient
Publisher

Board&Dice, Schwerkraft-Verlag, Maldito Games
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