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2009 Ranked #3,258

The Golden City

Exploration and shop-building game where adventurers expand from an island coast toward a golden city. Opening stores along connected villages yields goods, keys, and money, so every route must unlock the resources needed to reach the city's center.

Family Games Adventure Ancient Area Majority / Influence Auction/Bidding

Players

3-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

10+

Complexity

2.26/5

Rating

6.57

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.1/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How does it play?

From far away, the adventurers have come to the island with the golden city in its center. Just arrived, they open up the first shop directly at the coast.

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From far away, the adventurers have come to the island with the golden city in its center. Just arrived, they open up the first shop directly at the coast. Already it is possible to open up other ones in the villages along the street connections. That's worth it because through that you'll get goods, keys, money, and concessions that you need for getting ahead. And finally the first is able to establish himself in the golden City and thus get the most precious trading contracts. The Gold Trilogy Part one of "The Gold Trilogy" (besides Valdora and Felinia) Recommendations: Best Family Game 2009, ?wiat Gier Planszowych Der Portner 2009, 5th place Pfefferkuchel 2009, 5th place Family Strategy Game, Honorable Mention, GAMES Magazine, 2011 Game by Game 2010, Recommendation Expanded by: Two player variant "the big drought" Additional variant for "the big drought"

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Play and group

Players
3–4
Best with
2–4
Play time
60 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.3/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Michael Schacht

Artists

2
Martin Hoffmann Claus Stephan

Publishers

5
Editrice Giochi Galakta KOSMOS Piatnik Z-Man Games

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