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Potemkin Empire

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  1. 5.5 out of 10

    2019-08-26 - 7 - A game of building and bluffing, which can give you quite some fun! I had good time with it and I will play it more. 2019-09-29 - 7->5.5 - The first game was fun. The second was not as good, but I've played with 3 players. Now, after the third play I think that the game gets samey and what's worse, the luck of a draw/draft that gives you industrial buildings will lead you to getting a lot of points playing against the spirit of the game (just produce action) and noone can stop you, because your buildings are real and your opponents can't make more than 2 points per action, while you get 2 or 3 every time.. That's a shame, because the concept of this game is great.

  2. 7 out of 10

    Enjoyable game where you build fake (and some real) buildings to impress a lady. There are far more fake cards than real cards. If your fake buildings survive to the end they are worth 2 victory points, whereas out of the real buildings one is worth 1 point and another is worth 2 points. It pays off to gamble on making fake buildings. I would be careful with your spy agencies, they are important for blowing up your opponents' fake buildings, but if your spy agency is fake and your opponent investigates it they will steal your spy and now have two. It gets ugly if they manage to snatch several spies from other people. They can then blow up buildings left and right. It can be hard to recover from that.

  3. 6 out of 10

    I backed this one just for the theme, to be honest. Sounded like a fun time. And it is! Not a heavy or deep game, but a lot of silly fun. I especially like those moments when someone challenges one of your buildings and you yourself have no idea if it's real or fake. There should be some endgame bonus for most real or fake buildings. Can't decide on which.

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Russia, 1787: Empress Catherine the Great is taking a surprise trip down the Dnieper River to survey her new kingdom. This will take her directly past your old, unremarkable village. You don’t have the time or money to make your village impressive, but with a few pieces of timber and some strategically placed facades, you could certainly make your village seem impressive. More impressive, at least, than all the villages around it. What’s behind the riverfront doesn’t matter, after all — only the opinion of her Imperial Majesty.

In Potemkin Empire, you play the role of a mayor of a small Russian village. You attempt to impress Empress Catherine by convincing her that you have the most prosperous and stable village in the land. But with her visit quickly approaching there’s no time to really fix your village, so you’re just going to have to make it look as impressive as possible. That is to say, you’re faking it. You’ll accomplish this by drafting interior cards that are either real or fake, then combining them with facades to construct an imposing, if flimsy, kingdom.

You score points by producing goods in your industrial buildings, exposing opponents’ fake buildings with spies, constructing government and cultural buildings, and passing off fake buildings as real ones. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins!

Ages

14+
Players

2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players
Play Time

45m – 45m
Designer

Jonathan Woodard (II)
Mechanics

Card Drafting, Hand Management, Take That
Theme

Bluffing, Card Game, City Building, Civilization, Deduction
Publisher

Indie Boards & Cards
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