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Paris: New Eden
45m - 45m
2 - 4 Players
Ages 10+
The dazzling boulevards and historical monuments of Paris have been enveloped by lush vegetation. The once bustling city hub has been hushed to stillness following an apocalyptic event and your goal is to forge a new future. Equip your shelter, manage your resources, and rally a community of various survivors, all while making your way through the jungle cityscape.
Paris: New Eden features a clever dice-drafting mechanism that allows you to recruit survivors. Over the span of one year, you will endeavor to build your shelter and overcome the array of obstacles that you encounter along the way. The dice allow you to recruit survivors of different types: tinkerers, brawlers, healers, sages, farmers, jacks-of-all-trades, or even useless survivors. At the end of each season, your survivors allow you to bid to improve your shelter. These survivors are recruited in five key areas and central squares of the Paris that we know, each one with different abilities:
The train station, which lets you grow your community faster
The restaurant, to collect food to feed your community
The tower, to choose the goals you can fulfill
The center, which gives you access to special equipment
The bridge, to gain access to new missions
Players score points by recruiting survivors and feeding them, by fulfilling objectives from the tower, and by completing secret missions acquired at the bridge. At winter’s end, the player who has accumulated the most victory points wins. The future of Paris is in your hands!
—description from the publisher
| Ages | 10+ |
|---|---|
| Players | 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players |
| Play Time | 45m – 45m |
| Designer | Florian Grenier, Ludovic Maublanc |
| Mechanics | Betting and Bluffing, Deck, Bag, and Pool Building, Drafting |
| Theme | City Building, Dice, Science Fiction |
| Publisher | Matagot |
mrgree2
I really enjoyed playing the game. I felt that each decision I made as to which die to draft required a significant amount of decision making. I had to consider what my opponents were doing and balance that with whether or not I could let a die stay on the board for a later turn. I like the "auction," mechanic for the buildings during which players might have to decide how many die/people they want to spend to acquire a specific building. I think that people are underrating this game.
Big B
A pleasant family-weight tableau building game. Wasn't expecting too terribly much from this, I think this is a pleasant lighter-end resource gathering and bidding game. Sure going from phase to phase isn't the smoothest feeling, and there may not be much room for deeper strategy (you kind of just have observe others and make due with what you end up with) but the gathering resources phase is fast, I like the bidding, the production is pretty good, and it doesn't outstay it's welcome.
Funky Disco
Simple game play, but not enough ways to score points in my opinion. Would be nice if there were more actions that led to acquiring end game scoring cards.