Top 10 City Building Board Games of all time
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- čas přidán 11. 07. 2024
- Hello everyone!
We are back with another top 10 list, and today, we are taking a look at games where you are building a city in one form or the other! This is a category both of us greatly enjoy, and we are super excited to share our picks with you!
Maybe you'll find a new game or two to check out? We would love to hear your favorites in the comments!
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1: 22:25 - Hry
I love you guys!! Bet it is a blast to sit down at your gaming table! Thanks for doing these!
I think this is the second video I've watched of yours. I'm currently working on designing a city building game and am doing some research. In any case I love the the accent and you two are fun to watch. Thanks for the content 😊
Greetings from Poland :)
Thank for top 10 :)
Small City! I’ve had this since it was small… it keeps growing. ❤
Great game 🤩
If Lisboa is not about rebuilding the devastated city of Lisboa, then I don’t know what to think anymore! I guess I’ll have to wait for the Top 10 City Rebuilding Games of all time. Still not sure how all of those VILLAGE games snuck in there. I demand a population recount!
It is absolutely, and was on my short list. But, it doesn’t feel like a city building game to me. The theme is of rebuilding a city, but it doesn’t give me the city building vibes. If you look at all the games on my list and then look at Lisboa, for me at least, it has very little in common with what I think of as city building :) If that makes any sense 😅
Great list! I was unaware of electropolis and will check it out now - thanks for that. We would have small city at the top of our list as well. I'm also a big fan of Antiquity - they're 1/2 for our tastes.
I watch these just to see the crossover dance celebrations :)
Great games! I would add Rolling Heights to them!
I remember enjoying it, but didn’t fall in love! Glad to hear you’re enjoying it!
Thanks for sharing your top 10 city building ‘musicals’ list (multi talented!). 😉 I’m interested in checking out Electropolis and Small City as haven’t heard of these. I was already planning to play Suburbia this weekend and also enjoy Gingkopolis, so great minds…. 😊
Sounds awesome! Both are fantastic 🤩
Seems I have 3 city building games in my collection (out of 150 games). I do have several other types of building games, but not a lot of city ones that have stayed put. Kutna Hora, Suburbia and Akropolis. I kinda want to count Everdell as city building, but since the buildings are more cards in a tableau, it feels more adjacent to city building than actually city building. I have a bunch of other types of "building" games, be it hospital, theme park, castle, garden, trees (I actually have TWO tree building games)
I love that you have Electropolis on your list, but what about Urban Sprawl or Magnate: First City.
The man who did Small City loved the Idea with the graves from Splotters Game. Where you build the Feudal City and you build on the Map. -> so my Number 1 would be Antiquity. But you need the BGG Tokens and tiny suction cups to lift them around. Its a real good but fiddly game.
I like Antiquity, but haven’t played it in years. Never played Urban Sprawl. I like Magnate, but not more than any of these :)
Thanks for sharing this list and sharing some new games to me. City building is my favorite genre, and while I agree with many choices, I was hoping to see some deeper thematic games. A few of these are more abstract tile laying games that happen to have a city-building theme, and with quite a few you just build your own little village/city block. A few people mentioned Lisboa, and this has to be the most thematic city-building game I've played. It doesn't feel like a city builder at first, because we are used to Carcassonne and Suburbia. But to build (or rebuild) a city in 1755, you did have to visit the city architect to approve the plans, visit the king to build a palace, hire officials to place in your public buildings, use the public buildings to drive traffic to your stores and use your influence to make it all happen. It is so thematic and feels like real life! It is also a heavy game and not for the faint of heart. For the few people here that do like thematic city building games like Lisboa, do you have other recommendations? My favorite mid-weight city builder is Faiyum by Friedemann Friese - we are all building a city together, not just our little private village/town. And the interaction is just fantastic! I look forward to hearing others thoughts. Thanks!
Lisboa is a pretty shallow game though
Great video! Hands down my favorite city builder game is Foundations of Rome.
Thank you for watching! That is one we haven’t played sadly!
I have a fun idea!
I've mentioned before that due to crossovers (which are bound to happen) the end of the list becomes kind of odd because the number 1s don't even really get talked about...
Idea: If one of you says a title that's on YOUR list higher up, start doing the crossover dance, telling the other one that "hey, we'll talk about this later because it's higher on my list"...then, at the end of the list the highest ranked games get talked about by both of you because they're on both lists.
Just an idea...lots of love!
I love the idea, but we are too much fans of not knowing each others lists, haha! 😂
We do talk about all games, but maybe not at the #1 spot (ot wherever the crossover is) if the other person don’t have extra things to add :)
We can always try to tweak things to make them better, so we welcome all suggestions and feedback! :)
@@BoardGamingRamblings That's the thing though! you wouldn't have to know each other's lists!
One of you says "My number 8 is Boon Lake" and other one starts doing the crossover dance...and you realize "oh, wow, Boon Lake is somewhere higher on your list! I'll wait to talk about it until we find out where it is on your list!"
@@FemmeSensei Jeps, would love that change to!
Wow, that list of games on bgg for "city building" is pretty wild, as soooooo many of them don't feel like city building to me. On Mars? Cyclades? Anno 1800? Clinic??? I definitely prefer village building to city building.
Yeah, it's very wide and weird :P
I've played the majority of games on that list (which is a good list, don't get me wrong!) but a game that smokes 'em all is Rolling Heights.
Yeah. It’s the one that has the real feel of a city after you are done.
I remember liking Rolling Heights, but didn’t fall in love! Glad to hear you are enjoying it 🤩
World Wonders is going to dethrone all of them.
Great list. I'm curious though, would you consider LeHavre to be a city builder?
Ginkgopolis has been on our shelf of opportunity for a few months now and this top 10 motivated us to finally get it to the table this evening. Great game and thanks for the list. What would you think of Anno 1800 as a City Builder?
Did you get to play it? Hope you enjoyed it! 🤩
Anno 1800 does not feel like a city builder to me, but I do like the game!
@@BoardGamingRamblings Yes, yes we did play it last evening. Enjoyed it so much we took it to the local monthly meetup today and played it again. Great game of doing things and getting stuff. 😜 Wife beat me both games, but it was really enjoyable. One more city builder to recommend - Rebuilding Seattle.
Sprawlopolis for the lite, and Urban Sprawl for the heavy.
If find most city building games a 7/10 it seems, thats why they just dont maintain their place in my collection... the only 2 city building games (so my 1 and 2) where not mentioned on your list... nr 1 = NEOM; nr 2 = Carsson City the card game... any thoughts on them?
Quadropolis should be #4 (but it certainly deserves the higher spots)
No Everdell ? You don’t like it (enough?) or you don’t consider it being a city builder ?
For me it’s a fine game, not one I love! Also, I don’t think I feel like it’s a city builder :)
I'll pretend that I'm shocked that there are no Splotters here. Antiquity or Roads & Boats, I would be fine with any of those. 😉
Love both, but haven’t played them enough to include them! Sorry 😅
@@BoardGamingRamblings I think it's perfect time to revisit them. R&B would especially be apt for this list.
Trade KF: The Farmers for KF: The Merchants. The latter is much more interesting.
We’ll see if we can find it! I will take a look :)
My top city builder is Lisboa. 😊
I was surprised not to see it either!
It is fantastic, and was on my short list. But, it doesn’t feel like a city building game to me. The theme is of rebuilding a city, but it doesn’t give me the city building vibes. If you look at all the games on my list and then look at Lisboa, for me at least, it has very little in common with what I think of as city building :) If that makes any sense 😅