There are a handful of other game features which add important strategic elements, but I will save a few hundred words and only describe one more: tile purchasing. Because of this, the app inevitably feels a bit lighter than the physical version. This is incredibly helpful in simplifying all of the effects a tile will have. The app simply provides a snapshot of what the end result of your turn will be if you choose to place the tile. Often a tile will increase income and population, but it might move your population past a red line which would result in an income and reputation deduction. Suburbia was one of five recipients of the 2013 Mensa Select award.One great point of the app is that it does a fantastic job of letting you know what the end result will be of placing a tile. The expansion set Suburbia 5 Star was poorly received. Aaron Zimmerman stated in Ars Technica that the app eliminates some of the "tedious bookkeeping" of the physical game. Jon Seagull, in a review for Boing Boing, stated that there is little luck involved in the gameplay, but that "keeping track of the interdependent effects" of various tiles could be tedious. Quintin Smith said it is a "masterfully designed game" in his review for The Guardian and that he would "happily recommend. Īndrew Holmes, in a review for Meeple Mountain, states that the game is "balanced and it's brilliant". He also states that the game involves a "decent amount of player interaction" and has substantial replay value. In a review for Board Game Quest, Tony Mastrangeli states that the art and design are "really well done" and the artwork to be "colorful and thematic". The winner is the player with the greatest population, which is the game's victory points measure.
Players determine if any objectives have been achieved and adjust their borough's population per the objective's criteria. When the "1 More Round" tile is drawn, each player takes a final turn, then the game ends. Upon reaching each marker, the player loses a point of income, to reflect the greater costs of municipal services, and one point of reputation, to reflect an increase in crime and pollution accompanying greater density. The population board has a number of red markers at various points. The turn is completed by sliding all tiles in the real estate market to the right and adding a new tile at the leftmost position. The income a player collects is based on their position on the income track, and the population adjustment is based on their position on the reputation track. An investment marker is used to double all values printed on a tile already placed in the player's borough.
A tile is obtained from one of the seven tiles in the real estate market by paying its face value cost (if it is one of the two rightmost tiles), or its face value cost and an additional positional cost (for the remaining five tiles). On their turn, players execute four actions: obtain one tile or investment marker and place it in their borough, collect income, recalculate their borough's population, and add a new tile to the real estate market. Upon achieving a personal or public goal, the player receives a population bonus. All players must also achieve a set of public objectives, the number of which is based on the number of players. Once the game setup is complete, each player chooses a personal objective from two random draws. Each player adds a population marker to the population board. Gameplay Īll players start with a Borough Board, adjacent to which are arranged three hex tiles (one Suburbs, one Community Park, and one Heavy Factory), $15 in coins, and three investment markers. Suburbia was the basis for the design of the 2014 board game Castles of Mad King Ludwig. An expansion called Nightlife was released for the collector's edition of the game and the app, but is incompatible with the base version. In 2019, a Kickstarter campaign established to develop Suburbia Collector's Edition raised $1.8 million.
In 2015, it released the expansion set Suburbia 5 Star. The company released an app in 2013, and a game called Subdivision in 2014, as part of the Suburbia family of games. Suburbia is a city-building tile-laying board game designed by Ted Alspach and published in 2012 by Bézier Games. City-building tile-laying board game Suburbia
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