Gen Con 2023, the biggest tabletop and board game convention in North America, was bigger than ever this weekend. Here are the best games keithlaw played, and a quick rundown of every other game he played or saw, too.
) is indeed set in the world of traveling circuses, moving around the northeast and midwestern United States. Players operate their own small shows, but Barnum & Bailey are on the circuit as well, and when they get to a major city, every player whose circus has performed there can gain victory points.
has players building out the city and its famous Sagrada Familia in the 1850s, a time when the Catalan city was suffocating inside its medieval walls. Engineer Ildefons Cerdà came up with a plan to grow the city, inventing the study of urbanization, and players will have to please him by ensuring there’s enough housing for the lower classes, even though building for the middle and upper classes is more rewarding.
, as most of the things you play will score more points if you play certain other cards in your forest as well. You start by playing a tree, and then can play creature cards to that tree, tucking it halfway under on the left, right, top, or bottom. Each tree can take at least four such cards, and a few creature cards let you stack them for more points.
asks players to move around the large, round forest board and take the best pictures they can—but you have to actually estimate the proper distance from your photographer to whatever you’re trying to snap. The game comes with plastic tools to help you move the permitted distance and then, once you’ve gotten into position, show exactly what animals and other features are within your line of sight.
Here are all the other games I saw in some fashion, even just checking out at an exhibitor’s booth, over the course of my four days in Indianapolis:is a set collection game heading for Kickstarter soon, where players grab stacks of items to build their charcuterie boards and must place them in specific ways to score points, such as by placing cured meat tokens next to bread.
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