Suburbia was one of five recipients of the 2013 Mensa Select award.Married for close to ten years, Laura and Greg Halpern still love each other but don't seem to be in sync on many levels, from parenting their seven year old son Jamie, to the priorities on discretionary spending - Laura who wants a new kitchen, while Greg focuses on what Laura considers the money pit of their sailboat - to Laura believing that Greg spends too much time at work - to their sex life.
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. All 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.
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