Table feel
Moderate level of interaction with a mix of direct and strategic confrontation.
Rich game profile
Homesteaders
Homesteaders is an auction and resource management game in which players bid on the opportunity to build certain types of buildings, then spend resource cubes to build one of several buildings of that type. The buildings confer abilities, income, and points; some automatically an...
Players
2-4
Time
60-90
Age
14+
Weight
3.04
Rating
7.20
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Moderate level of interaction with a mix of direct and strategic confrontation.
Teach
2.4
Teaching signal
Replay
4.0
High replayability
Interaction
3.7
Highly interactive
Scaling
4.0
Scales well
Strategy
4.5
Deep strategy
Control
3.2
Luck-sensitive
Replay value
Homesteaders has a high replayability score due to its great variability in the gameboard, expansions available, strategic depth, scalability, and moderate easiness to learn.
Luck profile
Homesteaders has a moderate level of luck involved in the game. Random elements have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome. While players have some ability to mitigate the effects of randomness through strategic decisions, luck still plays a significant role. The game outcome is a balanced mix of luck and strategy, with neither element dominating. Overall, Homesteaders offers a good balance between luck and player agency.
Overview
What ABG knows about this game
Homesteaders is an auction and resource management game in which players bid on the opportunity to build certain types of buildings, then spend resource cubes to build one of several buildings of that type. The buildings confer abilities, income, and points; some automatically and some requiring a worker. The game lasts ten rounds, with each round consisting of an auction phase followed by a building phase. After the last round, players take one final income phase and have one last chance to buy and sell goods and use their building abilities before scores are tallied. Players score for their buildings, bonuses conferred by buildings, and points earned throughout the game from selling resource cubes. The player who builds the best combination of buildings and best manages the nine different resources in the game will score the most points and win – as long as they don't take on too much debt!
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Designers
1
Alex Rockwell
Artists
2
Hans Janssen
Ariel Seoane
Publishers
1
Tasty Minstrel Games
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