Night Soil (pré-joué) (EN)

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Night Soil sweeps you into the reeking streets of Tudor London (1485-1603), a city at the height of cultural progress yet still generations away from modern plumbing. Running a rival waste-hauling company, you must maneuver waste cubes through narrow, crowded lanes to turn a profit and recruit new workers. By night, your labourer cards choreograph these delicate deliveries; by day, your recruits head out to advertise, curry favour with local businesses, or upgrade your company's assets. Watch out: the more workers you hire, the more waste piles up around town. This strategy game blends a deck-building system with area control, two mechanics that force every player to juggle rapid expansion against tight resource management. At game's end, the most profitable company wins.

You will likely enjoy Night Soil if you crave demanding management games where every placement decision matters, where an original theme (sanitation in a historic capital) meets tricky area-control and deck-building mechanics. Groups who love dense 60 to 90 minute sessions, with plenty of mid-term planning and a dash of direct interaction between rival companies, will feel right at home.

Successfully funded on Kickstarter, Night Soil stood out for its irreverent, original theme and for artwork inspired by period woodcut prints. Fans of demanding games will note its fairly high complexity rating on BoardGameGeek, typical of American-style management games that reward long-term planning. The game has already spawned an expansion, Night Soil: Coronation Day, for companies looking to push the experience even further.

The game was designed by Jon Moffat, with artwork by Jesse Gillespie, whose style echoes Tudor-era woodcut engravings. The original edition was published by Grail Games.

BOX CONTENTS
1 game board
1 round marker
1 rulebook
3 neighbourhood tiles
5 wooden turn order tokens
6 favour tiles
10 player aid cards
15 starting labourer cards
16 worker pawns
19 special labourer cards
50 waste cubes
50 wooden player tokens
81 coin tokens

Number of players: 2 to 5
Playing time: 60 to 90 minutes
Age: 14 and up