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2020 Ranked #7,336

Reigns: The Council

An asymmetric party game in which a monarch accepts or rejects advisors’ petitions while keeping four social pillars balanced. Advisors pursue secret goals, and every decision can end a reign and crown a new heir.

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Players

3-6

Play time

20-40 min

Age

8+

Complexity

1.83/5

Rating

6.90

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.8/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.6/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Reigns: The Council is an asymmetric party game for 3-6 people about a monarch seeking the harmony of their realm, and their advisors vying to influence them for their own goals.

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Reigns: The Council is an asymmetric party game for 3-6 people about a monarch seeking the harmony of their realm, and their advisors vying to influence them for their own goals. One player is crowned monarch, and for the length of their reign, they decide which petitions from their advisors they will support or decline. Every decision influences the state of the realm. If any one of the four pillars of society becomes either too powerful or too weak, it means the end of the reign, a gruesome death for the monarch, and a victory jig for the advisors whose secret goals were met — then a new heir is crowned, and a new reign begins. Reigns: The Council is based on the cute and fun app game Reigns.

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All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
3–6
Best with
4–5
Play time
20–40 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.8/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
Bruno Faidutti Hervé Marly

Artists

2
Arnaud de Bock Hervé Marly

Publishers

2
(Web published) Nerial

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