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Teotihuacan: City of Gods
90m - 120m
1 - 4 Players
Ages 12+
90m - 120m
1 - 4 Players
Ages 12+
AndySzy
Lots of intriguing decisions. I like the amount of variability on offer. Theme is... hahah, just kidding. The game sort of looks like a spreadsheet (minus the beautiful mah jong tiles in the middle). Overall, I like it. It's a pretty heavy euro game, but feels definitely like a sequel to Tzolkin (except they replaced worker placement with a Rondel).
arcweldx
A medium weight euro that's not as complicated as the cluttered and ornate board makes it seem. Eight action spaces on a circular track. You move several workers around this rondel. The novel "hooks" are coordinating workers (the more you land on a single space, the more powerful the action) and evolving workers over time (the more evolved, the more powerful the action). In standard point salad style, there are a variety of ways to get points but specialising is a good idea. Other than that, it's a hodge podge of familiar bits: technologies that grant permanent powers, resource gathering, set collection, several sub-tracks that grant benefits and points. This has been hyped as the evolution of Tzolkin. I'd say it's a step to the side, perhaps slightly backward. The resemblances are faint. The gears of Tzolkin felt surprisingly fresh and innovative, Teotihuacan feels like a solid but not very distinctive puzzle-y euro. One nice feature is that the action spaces can be randomised, which should change the viability of different strategies from game to game.
BlueDane
Teotihuacan brings mechanics that we have all seen before. Some of them are gathering resources, building pyramids, upgrading workers and going up different tracks. The difference and innovation in this game is the action selection mechanism used to accomplish these mundane things. You are moving and placing dice in a pseudo rondel and the more dice that there are in a space the better the action. The dilemma of how to get various dice in one action space is compelling and tense because if other players place their dice there first you are paying more for the action. It's a simple system that executes well. There are a couple of more twists to the game, but nothing that detracts from the core mechanism. For now it's a 7, but if it takes off the rating could rise.