Village (pré-joué) (EN)

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Welcome to a bustling medieval village where every generation has a chance to leave its mark. In Village, you take the reins of a family and guide it across several generations to become the most prestigious in the square. Some of your people will become friars, others will pursue a seat in the council chamber, take up a craft, or seek their fortune in faraway lands. It is up to you to decide where to invest your energy.

The heart of this strategy game is a cube placement mechanism that is as simple as it is elegant. On your turn, you take a cube from one of the board's locations and perform its action: grow your family, harvest bags of grain, craft goods, sell at the market, enter the church, sit on the council or travel. Every move costs you time, and that is where Village stands apart: time is your true resource. As it runs out, the oldest members of your family eventually pass away. Those who lived well are recorded in the village chronicle and earn you prestige points; the rest fall into the anonymous graveyard. The game ends as soon as the chronicle or the anonymous graveyard is full, and the player with the most prestige wins.

Tense, replayable and never chaotic, Village rewards planning and opportunism. Every turn forces you to read an ever-changing situation and grab the right cube at the right moment. A true management game for anyone who loves tight decisions.

You will likely enjoy Village if you are looking for a management game that is deep yet accessible, where every decision matters and even the end of your characters' lives becomes a strategic resource. Perfect for worker placement fans who want a twist of originality and smart interaction between players.

Village swept two of the hobby's biggest honors in the same year: the Kennerspiel des Jahres 2012 (Germany's expert game of the year) and the Deutscher Spiele Preis 2012. Its time mechanism, where you must accept the passing of your villagers to move forward, remains one of the most original in its category and is still held up as an example more than a decade after its release.

Village is designed by the duo Inka and Markus Brand, a pair of authors known for polished management games and for the hit series Exit: The Game. The warm, colorful illustrations are the work of Dennis Lohausen, a regular on major European board games.

BOX CONTENTS
1 game board
44 wooden family members (11 red, 11 yellow, 11 blue, 11 white)
4 black wooden monks
1 sticker sheet
32 markers (8 red, 8 yellow, 8 blue, 8 white)
6 Plague cubes
1 First player marker
1 Next first player marker
72 influence cubes
2 cloth bags
40 Goods tiles
4 Farm tiles
24 Customer tiles (double-sided)
15 coins
20 bags of grain
3 setup cards
1 mass summary card
1 rulebook

Number of players: 2 to 4
Playing time: 60 to 90 minutes
Age: 12+