Architects of the West Kingdom Game for 1 to 5 Players Aged 12 Plus

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1. AB Verified Buyer – 28 August 2024

   GAMEPLAY In usual worker placement games you have 2-5 workers and a fixed number of rounds. Every round, players take turns to place their workers on certain spots to take that action. These spots are then blocked for subsequent turns. At the end of round they call their workers back. Here’s how the game is different from other worker placement games: * Almost all the spots support unlimited number of workers. * There’s no concept of rounds, the game ends when work on the cathedral is complete. * The more number of workers at a location, the better the reward. Say you send a worker to quary in 1st turn, you gain 1 stone. Next time you send a worker to quarry, you’ve two workers on the quary and you gain 2 stones. * Your workers don’t return to you at end of round (as there’s no round). You have to take an action to call your workers from a spot. * Players can capture opponents workers from the board and optionally send them to prison (for money) * A player can free their worker from opponent or from prison by paying the cost. The primary objective of the game is to gain maximum victory points. During the game you take turns taking resources by going to different locations on the board (stone, brick, wood, coin, gold, marble etc), recruiting apprentices, building structures and working on cathedrals. The game has a virtue track. Your virtue adjusts based on your actions. It goes up when you work on cathedrals, building schools etc, but it goes down when you perform action at the black market or build structures such as gambling house etc. Based on your position on the virtue track certain positions on the gameboard may not be available to you. PLAYER COUNT AND DURATION The game plays in about 90 mins. The player count doesn’t increase the duration as the game ends when the cathedral work is complete. The game plays well for 2-5 players. No scaling issues as all the locations allow multiple workers. The automa mode is pretty good and competitive. I’ve played it two times with 1 win and 1 loss. COMPONENT QUALITY The Component Quality is Good. The resources are made of light wood. The coins are made of card-board. The game board is big and pretty. The art work on gameboard, player mats, building cards and apprentices is really cool. It’s a cartoon-ish theme similar to other games from the same manufacturer (raiders of the north sea). CONCLUSION We really enjoyed the game. The best part of the game is capturing opponent’s workers. It makes for really fun and interesting player interactions! The good (working on cathedral) and bad sides (black market for quick resources) are well-balanced and you can chart a path to victory via both ways. Highly recommend it.

   

2. Anonymous Reviewer Verified Buyer – 13 November 2024

   I am sure the game itself is nice, but I bought a “used as new version” and had a bad experience. The box looked clean and well sealed, but once opened it was missing the following: all the coins, 13 out of 35 red clay wodden tokens, AND THE MAIN BOARD! Also weirdly enough it had an EXTRA black character mat not mentioned in the manual, but I read this can happen.

   I suspect that it is more likely that the box had been tampered with and resealed, rather than this being a factory mistake. In any case I had to return it as unusable. Returns should really be checked thoroughly before reselling.
   

3. David Verified Buyer – 21 January 2025

   Digno de todas la buenas reseñas.
   

4. Clayton Younkin Verified Buyer – 22 January 2025

   My game group and I absolutely love this game!!! As architects competing for glory, each player is using their workers to gather resources to complete their projects. Two unique mechanics make this far and away the best worker placement game I have played in quite some time. 1) The virtue tracker will reward you based on how nefarious or virtuous you are as you play. Both options are balanced very well and give you different options you can taylor your play style to. 2) There are no rounds. Once your worker is on the map it stays there unless you take specific actions to gather your workers back. This may seem like a simple mechanic but it means play is fast and seamless. I play a lot of board games and this is one of the best I have played all year. The fresh mechanics and the absolutely stunning artwork make this a must buy for any gamer

   

5. Marius J Verified Buyer – 28 January 2025

   I would play this game any time, especially given the play time, and look forward to even more plays to see new strategies and ideas emerge. Hardly waiting for the extension.
   As a minus..the box was a bit damaged.
   

6. Qian Ye Verified Buyer – 13 March 2025

   My fav game so far. Took a bit effort to learn, but once you know how to play it is tonnes fun. Great game for 2 people.

   

7. Simo ✌️ Verified Buyer – 29 April 2025

   Bellissimo gioco ,restituito per mia distrazione ,pensando ci fossero le istruzioni in più lingue ma questo è solo in inglese e come primo approccio al gioco troppo complicato