To win the game, you’ll need to encourage decent growth of both your Income and Reputation without speeding ahead. As more and more people move to your part of the world, it will become just that little bit less appealing – it makes perfect sense. It’s a logical way of stopping a runaway leader just think about it. Looking at the scoretrack will reveal lots of little red bars, and every time you cross one you must knock your Reputation and Income down by one point each. Reputation adds to your population at the end of every turn, but you don’t want to race this up as high as possible at the start of the game as there’s a little mechanism that will keep you in check. More money coming in will, obviously, allow you to buy those more expensive tiles. In order to get your population as high as possible, you’ll be managing two elements: income and reputation. Could do with a bit more money, but isn’t that true of everyone?
Midway through a game and things are looking pretty good so far. However, it’s not just down to what you build that will affect your borough your opponents will also have a little sway over what happens to you, just as you will with their boroughs, and it’s this interaction that is just one part of what turns Suburbia from yet another multiplayer solitaire experience into something a little more special. Of course, as your playing area grows, so will your population (hopefully), and it’s these little folks that will potentially win you the game. After all, you may choose to turn the whole thing into a wasteland that’s slightly less appealing than a two-week trip to sunny Pripyat – Suburbia gives you that freedom.Īs the game progresses, you buy industrial, civic, residential and business tiles and develop your tiny borough into something more substantial. Everyone starts off with the same set-up of three hexagonal tiles Suburbs, a CommunityPark and a Heavy Factory, and these represent the beginning of your own corner of paradise. Distilled to its purest essence, Suburbia is a game requiring that you build the best engine with what’s on offer to you at the time but once you get into the meat of it, there’s so much more to it…īetween two and four can play – there are also two different sets of rules for a single player game – and the objective is to get the highest population out of all involved. Why? In short, it scratches that Sim City itch that has plagued me since I first slotted that cartridge into my Super Nintendo all those years ago and started messing about with zoning laws and shaping the lives of countless digital citzens. At this year’s Essen there were a few new games to add to the category, and of the lot my favourite is most definitely Ted Alspach’s new design, Suburbia, released through his own Bezier Games imprint in association with Lookout Games. Who doesn’t love city building games? All the fun of creating a place for imaginary citizens to live with none of the mess that comes from messing about with cement, and no danger of stepping on Lego bricks (unless, of course, you’re playing Town Center by Alban Viard).
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