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2017 Ranked #1,436

Villages Of Valeria

Village-building card game where players establish resources, construct buildings, and attract adventurers to become Valeria's capital. Other players can follow your chosen action for reduced rewards, making every turn a choice between leading and enabling rivals.

Strategy Games Card Game City Building Follow Open Drafting

Players

1-5

Play time

30-60 min

Age

14+

Complexity

2.32/5

Rating

7.00

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

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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 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.4/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.7/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

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.

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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.

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Play and group

Players
1–5
Best with
1–4
Play time
30–60 min
Age
14+
Complexity
2.3/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
Rick Holzgrafe Isaias Vallejo

Artists

1
Mihajlo Dimitrievski

Publishers

3
Daily Magic Games Games Factory Games Factory Publishing

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