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?
This is the new edition of Small City, one of the best city-building game on a 90° grid like in real city! Build Residences, Commerces, Industries.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Rondel
Move around a circular action track that limits which actions are currently reachable.
Tile Placement
Place tiles to build a shared or personal spatial arrangement.
Worker Placement
Commit limited workers to action spaces before opponents occupy them.
Solo / Solitaire Game
Provide rules and objectives designed for a single player.
Square Grid
Use an orthogonal grid where position and adjacent spaces shape movement or placement.
Read the full game description
This is the new edition of Small City, one of the best city-building game on a 90° grid like in real city! Build Residences, Commerces, Industries. Affect a job to your citizens to Produce Raw material, to build Cultural Buildings and develop your city to be re-elected at the end of 8 rounds. Make Promises to your citizens like good Mayor and develop tourism to opponent players. But don't forget to take care of the pollution level in order to not ruin your effort... This new version includes: - a new revised book of rules - new illustrations from Kwanchai Moriya! - new variants that keep the best of the rules of the old edition - a revised version of the solo game