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2022 Ranked #4,647

Legacies

An economic action-selection game where players forge relationships, invest, create heirlooms, and cultivate successors to build enduring fame. Markets, families, and opportunities evolve across centuries, and a profitable path may also strengthen rivals who share its benefits.

Strategy Games Economic End Game Bonuses Events

Players

1-6

Play time

90-180 min

Age

12+

Complexity

4.14/5

Rating

7.08

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 3.1/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.1/5

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?

You are famous - one of the most well-known names of the early 19th Century. That's not enough for you, though.

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You are famous - one of the most well-known names of the early 19th Century. That's not enough for you, though. You want to leave a legacy, with your name living far into the future. Make strategic relationships, well-timed investments, and marvelous heirlooms to leave a lasting mark. Most importantly, identify the ideal successors to carry your reputation and fame across multiple centuries. This strategic, action-selection, economic game challenges you to navigate events of the past, present, and future to cement your legacy. What kind of legacy will you create? How will YOU be remembered? Legacies is unique in its integration of primary mechanisms including: multi-use cards, market manipulation, area control/worker placement, variable round-ends, variable player powers, and variable scoring. Many paths exist to build your fame, but it would be foolish to focus only on your own heirlooms and industries as that path will likely benefit your opponents more than it will benefit you. The player cards and entire board evolve throughout the game highlighting inflation, and more importantly, showcasing the visual progression from the 19th century into the 20th and eventually the 21st century creating an effect that carries the player through a journey that truly feels as if it spans 300 years in just a couple of hours of game-play. —description from the designer

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Play and group

Players
1–6
Best with
2–6
Play time
90–180 min
Age
12+
Complexity
4.1/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Jason Brooks

Artists

2
James Churchill Yoma

Publishers

1
Brookspun Games

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