Villages Of Valeria

Fit

Teach 2.3

Teaching signal

Replay 4.0

High replayability

Interaction 3.7

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.4

Scales well

Strategy 4.7

Deep strategy

Control 3.5

More strategic control

Table feel

Moderate level of interaction with a good balance between direct and strategic confrontation.

Replay value

Villages of Valeria has a high replayability score due to its high variability gameboard, expansions available, strategic depth, scalability, and moderate easiness to learn.

Luck profile

The final luck score for Villages of Valeria is 7, indicating a moderate influence of luck. While random elements like card draws have a notable impact on the game outcome, players have substantial ability to mitigate the effects of luck through strategic decisions and planning. The game relies on a balanced mix of luck and strategy, with player decisions playing a significant role in determining the outcome.

Overview

A village-building card game set in the world of Valeria. Establish resources, construct buildings, and attract adventurers to your Village to be crowned the next capitol city. Each player takes a turn taking one action from the following list and all other players may follow the action but with fewer rewards: Tax: Take 1 Gold and Draw 1 Card. (Follow: Draw 1 card.) Harvest: Draw 3 Cards. (Follow: Draw 1 card.) Develop: Discard 1 card to add a Resource to your village. (Follow: Discard 2 cards to add a Resource to your village.) Build: Add a building to your village. Draw a card. (Follow: Add a building to your village, but do not draw a card.) Recruit: Pay 1 Gold to add an Adventurer to your village. (Follow: Pay 2 Gold to add an Adventurer to your village.) Building cards can be used for 2 reasons. 1) Pay resources to add it to your village as a building and gain its benefit and VP. 2) Develop it as a Resource and place it under your Castle card. When building, use resources you have developed or pay another player 1 Gold to use their resource. The game ends when a player has built or recruited 10 buildings/Adventurers.

Mechanism

3

Follow Hand Management Open Drafting

Family

6

Components: Multi-Use Cards Crowdfunding: Kickstarter Digital Implementations: Tabletopia Mechanism: Tableau Building Players: Games with Solitaire Rules Setting: Valeria

Type

1

Strategy

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