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Downtown box art
1996 Ranked #11,287

Downtown

This city-development game has players vote to zone blocks and build three neighborhood types. Adjacent completed blocks set base value, while positive and negative neighbor effects create large scoring swings.

Family Games City Building Negotiation Simultaneous Action Selection Voting

Players

3-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

2.24/5

Rating

6.33

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.8/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Taking a fairly common theme, this game is about building three types of neighborhoods in a developing city. Each turn one or two blocks will get zoned, based on the players' votes.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

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Taking a fairly common theme, this game is about building three types of neighborhoods in a developing city. Each turn one or two blocks will get zoned, based on the players' votes. Once all four properties in a block have been bought and the block has been zoned, its base score is the number of completed blocks adjoining it. However, there are serious multipliers (positive and negative) for locating certain types of developments next to each other. 1st Place 1996 Hippodice Spieleautorenwettbewerb (as Boomtown).

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Play and group

Players
3–6
Best with
2
Play time
60 min
Age
12+
Complexity
2.2/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Bernhard Weber

Artists

2
Sascha Krämer Doris Matthäus

Publishers

2
ABACUSSPIELE Grünspan-Spiele

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