When Asmodee acquired the Days of Wonder brand, I wondered what would happen to it. While they had a hit with Five Tribes, I wondered if we would just get a bunch of Small World and Ticket to Ride expansions. However, it looks like Days of Wonder will be releasing a hit in the near future called Quadropolis.
Today, Days of Wonder announced Quadropolis, winner of the International Game Designers Contest of Boulogne Billancourt, a new board game where players enact the role of the Mayor of a modern city.
In Quadropolis players send their Architects to the global Construction Site to have different buildings erected in their city, each of them allowing the player to score victory points. There are various types of buildings with different scoring patterns; many of them may be combined for better effect.
Players will have access to different strategies, depending on the buildings that are available to them. They will need to build tower blocks to provide their citizens with a place to live, parks for recreation, shops, public services… but also harbors and factories to ensure enough energy production. Each Mayor has to find the subtle balance for a nice modern city.
“Because of its simple mechanics, Quadropolis is accessible to everyone” said François Gandon, game designer of Quadropolis. “The idea of the game is to mix a strategic dimension – the longterm planning in a modern city – and a tactical dimension, such as the constraints that a mayor experiments with every day. As a result, players have to make important choices on each turn.”
Quadropolis is for 2 to 4 players ages 8 and older and takes approximately 3060 minutes to play. It includes 142 Building Tiles, 1 Construction Site Board, 4 Player Mats & 4 Helpers, 20 Architects, 65 Inhabitants (blue meeples) & 50 Energy Units (red barrels), 1 Urbanist & 1 Mayor Figure, 1 Scoring Pad, 1 Cloth Bag and 1 Rules Booklet. Quadropolis is expected to be available in Europe early March and in the US early April at an expected retail price of $50/€45.
For more information you can visit the Quadropolis website at: www.daysofwonder.com/quadropolis
I got to play an early version of this at GenCon last year and was pleasantly surprised by it. I’m looking forward to getting the final game to see if it still stands up.
While not working as a Database Administrator, Keith Schleicher has been associated with Gaming Trend since 2003. While his love of video games started with the Telestar Alpha (a pong console with four different games), he trule started playing video games when he received the ill-fated TI-99/4A. While the Speech Synthesizer seemed to be the height of gaming, eventually a 286 AT computer running at 8/12 Hz and a CGA monitor would be his outlet for a while. Eventually he’d graduate to 386, 486, Pentium, and Athlon systems, building some of those systems while doing some hardware reviews and attending Comdex. With the release of the Dreamcast that started his conversion to the console world. Since then he has acquired an NES, SNES, PS2, PS3, PSP, GBA-SP, DS, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One S, Gamecube, Wii, Switch, and Oculus Quest 2. While not playing video games he enjoys bowling, reading, playing board games, listening to music, and watching movies and TV. He originally hails from Wisconsin but is now living in Michigan with his wife and sons.
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