CITADELS
The players must try to build the most valuable, or the most useful districts. However, the core of the gameplay revolves around role selection. Players secretly choose a character card and pass on the rest – starting with whoever has the crown. Each character has a special ability, and the usefulness of any character depends upon your situation, and that of your opponents. If you are too obvious in your movements, you may meet an untimely death at the hands of an assassin, or a thief may whisk away all of your precious gold.
Once someone has built eight districts, the round continues until all other players have taken their actions, and then the game ends. The player with the most victory points wins. Victory points are determined by the gold value of buildings, but it is also important that players have a varied city, and complete their districts with haste if they are to see any bonus points.
Citadels had a separate expansion, Citadels: The Dark City Expansion, but the new (3rd Edition) Fantasy Flight edition comes with the expansion included (the Hans im Glück tin box also included it). With the newer version that includes Dark City, or the Dark City expansion purchased separately, Citadels supports a maximum of 8 players.
A second edition of the German version of the game came in a tin box and included the Dark City expansion as well as three additional cards. It is separately listed at Citadels.
Citadels Card Game Video Review,
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Brexis
December 5, 2012 at 1:46 PM (UTC -5) Link to this comment
This game on the surface does not look all that much, but once you get a group of people around it turns into quite a fun night. I discovered this game early in my boardgaming obsession lol. Great game, highly recommend, fun for any age ( youger children will need adult help)
spiderfingers86
October 28, 2012 at 2:20 PM (UTC -5) Link to this comment
This was the first real game to get me started into more Euro style gaming and introduced me to games beyond that of Milton Bradley and Parker Brothers. So it will always hold a sweet spot in my heart and I think I own more Bruno Faidutti games than any other designer. Citadels is a great way to introduce newer gamers into the genre and if one is a big fan of Citadels, I would recommend another more complex version of the mechanic: Mission Red Planet, also by Faidutti. :)
TheImp
September 19, 2012 at 6:29 PM (UTC -5) Link to this comment
A very good game to end a night of gaming with or to play quickly with your family.
Rob
August 16, 2012 at 3:48 PM (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I heard you mentioned that it’s ok with 2 players, is some of the strategy lost when it’s only 1 v 1 or does the complexity of the game hold up?
le_renard
July 2, 2012 at 7:47 AM (UTC -5) Link to this comment
A great game, a classic in my humble opinion… Very inspirational “role selection” game with plenty of players interaction !
One of these games every gamer should own !
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