Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
The city-building board game Foundations of Rome puts you into the role of an architect competing to own land and build magnificent structures! Build dom?s and insulae, fountains, foundries, and more to increase your renown - gaining glory for yourself and the empire!
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Income
Receive recurring resources according to your position, assets, or development.
Auction: Dutch
Bid against other players to determine who receives an item, action, or priority.
Market
Buy and sell through a shared supply whose availability or prices can change.
Tile Placement
Place tiles to build a shared or personal spatial arrangement.
Ownership
Claim assets or areas that remain under a player’s control.
Square Grid
Use an orthogonal grid where position and adjacent spaces shape movement or placement.
Read the full game description
The city-building board game Foundations of Rome puts you into the role of an architect competing to own land and build magnificent structures! Build dom?s and insulae, fountains, foundries, and more to increase your renown - gaining glory for yourself and the empire! With 96 wonderfully detailed miniatures in the base game, Foundations of Rome is a testament to the glory of Rome that you can bring to the table. Foundations of Rome is the next, and biggest game to date, in the Dice Tower Essentials line and is designed by famed designer Emerson Matsuuchi. On a player's turn they select from purchasing a new lot, building a new building in the shared city of Rome, or collecting income! Players collect Glory Points at the end of each round based on the population and commerce they have brought to the city as well as gaining glory for civic buildings that score not only based on their own buildings, but those of their opponents! With a quick setup time and easy to learn to rules you will be on your way to achieving glory within Rome in no time! —description from the publisher