Bezier Games | Suburbia 2nd Edition | Board Game | Ages 8+ | 1 to 4 Players | 60 to 90 Minutes Playing Time

What a great game!Each player gets to build a Sim City-esque landscape and whilst there's minimal conflict (pipping someone to the post in regards to buying up a cheap sort-after-property and denying them big points is as violent as it gets), it is rather amusing as to how your chums grow their little developments. Ah, I see you're placing a slaughterhouse next to your suburb, lovely!Just to summarise how you play the game, basically you take turns buying up (from a variable range of cheap to expensive) properties and placing them where they fit. The properties are cardboard hexes and need to sit next to each other as you progress. The thinking comes in when you place the hex - as generally each property may give income/reputation points and by placing one type of building (handily colour-coded!) next to another may give more points, or even have some negative effect!On your little tableau, there is a tracker for reputation and income. How you've placed your properties on your turn will effect if you will receive more income (to buy buildings) for your next turn and if your reputation goes up. Reputation equals population, so the more rep you have, the more people will want to live in your little town, and the most population at the end of the game wins! A nice feature is that the scoreboard (the population board) has little 'speed bumps' every so often between the numbers which lower your rep and income by one (representing over-population) - this stops people from racing too far ahead and makes you focus on balancing your increasing population.Great fun!

Not for casual gamers, this is a gamers game and may take you a while to get into it.expect time taken on each turn deliberating which tile is best to take, expect taking time to think about the strategy your opponent is going for and try to take the tiles they want.that said this game has some great potential. its well balanced and as a thinking game certainly has a lot more going for it than pick up a tile and plonk it in a place.this is basically a game of building a town, the real joy is that you get to see your town expand, balancing your income with the desirability of the location. there are also good moments when like when you plonk a garbage dump right next to a school just because you can...definitely worth a buy if you like economic hex based games such as archipelago

We got this game for Christmas and it has been a big hit. It is unlike any other game I have played. The aim is to develop a successful city borough, balancing the needs of commericial enterprises with those of city residents. You have to generate income while maintaining your reputation (although some members of my family have revealed themselves to be naked capitalists who care nothing for reputation).Gameplay involves selecting and laying hexagonal tiles, each of which represents a residential, commerical or cultural/recreational development. You get bonuses or penalties depending on where you lay each new tile relative to existing tiles (airports or slaughterhouses next to residential suburbs are not popular). There are also goals, revealed at the start of the game, which earn large bonuses at the end, and are very important for determining the final outcome. The goals and development tiles are randomly selected at the start of each game, which generates a lot of variety. Our first game took a long time while we got to grips with the rules - after that it was much quicker. A 4-player game takes about 80-90 mins.

My wife has become addicted to this fun game. It has quite a few ways to win, although it tends to be that the person who accomplishes the most quests gets the prize. Not all cards are in use in each game - which means there is always uncertainty about what cards will be in play - which adds to the game. It is reasonably complex, but not too much so.Generally, a relatively easy but thought provoking game - fun for the family.I also like the way that you can play with 2 players...some games are not so fun with only 2 players.

Fun board game that allows 1-4 players to build the (im)perfect city. Balance income and reputation to get the most points by the end of the game. It sounds a bit dry but in fact is a lot of fun. Each city you build tells it's own story, and add in the Suburbia Inc expansion for some extra options.

Even though we only bought this game recently, i think we have already played it more times than some of the games that we have owned for years. I would recommend anyone considering this game to buy the app first and get a feel for the game mechanics. Each tile that each player places can affect every other player and this can take some getting used to, it took us a couple of games before we fully understood what we were doing.The game is well made and I'd highly recommend it.

This game is wonderful. The mechanics are simple - you have hexagons which you buy to build your city. Your city generates population (points), income (money generation) and popularity (population generation) However sometimes if you expand too much your income and popularity will suffer which provides a great catchup mechanic.

It's Sim City with human interaction. Within a few weeks of receiving my copy I had already bought the expansion. The only let down was a couple of absent tokens, however, I contacted Bezier games and shortly thereafter was sent my tokens - it could not have been easier and the staff were pleasant to a fault :)