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Monster City Planners

Urban Planning and Miscreation

Requirements

<30
2-4
12+

Description

As the sun pierces the morning fog, the harbor fills with the low rumbling roar of monster contractors checking in for another day of miscreation. Your job as an urban planner is to strike a balance between serving diverse public interests, and managing ten-story tall monsters who are committed to leaving their mark on Monster City.

Monster City Planners is a deeply strategic game with drafting, dual use cards, and hidden goal selection. Players start each round by choosing their hand of cards through a draft. Each card has two uses: 1) a monster action that changes the city plan, and 2) a unique scoring criteria for earning points. But you can only use each card for one of its two purposes. After the draft, players take turns constructing and demolishing buildings until all players yield. They then score points based on the unused cards that remain in their hands, and how well those cards' scoring criteria are reflected in the final city plan.

Components

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Poker Deck 1 deck of 1 cards Poker Deck component icon
Poker Deck 1 deck of 3 cards Poker Deck component icon
Poker Deck 1 deck of 50 cards Poker Deck component icon
Poker Tuck Box (90 cards) 1 Poker Tuck Box (90 cards) component icon
Small Booklet 1 Small Booklet component icon
Cube, 10mm, Blue 6 Cube, 10mm, Blue component icon
Cube, 8mm, Orange 6 Cube, 8mm, Orange component icon
House, White 6 House, White component icon
Stick, Wood, Black 6 Stick, Wood, Black component icon

Vitals

Average Rating 5 reviews
Publish Date November 14, 2013
Edition First
Department Games
Tags Fantasy Monsters Alternate Present Casual Gamer Map Building Seven Wonders

Why buy this?

I love this game... great game, solid game, it does what I want for a micro game.

  • Fifty unique ways to earn points to win.
  • Hundreds of deep decisions in a 20min game.
  • Ten-story monsters crammed in a 3.5" box.

Downloads

Sugar Pill Studios

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Ratings and Reviews

Posted 5 years ago
Own It Played It

Posted 10 years ago
Own It Played It Fun Priced Well High Replay Value Well Written Rules Nice Artwork

Big game--little package. One of my favorite micro games. Unique (to me) mechanics, though the card selection process clearly owes a debt to 7 Wonders. Fun theme really carries through the game. L...

Posted 11 years ago
Own It

Posted 11 years ago
Own It Played It Fun High Replay Value Well Written Rules

I very much enjoyed Monster City Planners. It’s a game that proves you don’t need big bits to have a good time. It’s a tight game that always has me thinking hard and smiling broadly. The double-sided...

Posted 11 years ago
Own It Played It Fun Priced Well Well Written Rules Nice Artwork

I love, love, love the concept of this game. It's simple but effective, and very easy to learn. The mechanic is really neat, and the drafting mechanic is adds time to an otherwise short game, but wo...

Posted 11 years ago
Own It Played It Priced Well Well Written Rules Nice Artwork

I have to say that the first thing that surprised me about Monster City planners is that I didn't think it would be possible to fit so large an idea into such a tiny box. Although I'm not a fan of dr...

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