Product Review

After many years of fighting hordes of monsters, the king of Valeria and his valiant fighters have finally pushed back the evil forces surrounding his kingdom. The king has dispatched his heralds to every corner of his realm to announce his desire for a new capital city. Will your village be grand enough to impress the king? In villages of Valeria, you will lead and follow actions in order to build a village around your castle. Develop resources to construct buildings, which give you victory points and special powers. The right buildings help you recruit adventurers like the paladin, cleric, or rogue keep an eye on your fellow players as they will be trying to build a grander village and may even attract the adventurer you were hoping for. The player with the most victory points at the end wins the game, and their village will become the capital city of Valeria. Game play overview: During a turn, the active player will select one of five actions to perform. After the active player has performed their selected action, each player will have a chance to follow that same action but at a slight disadvantage. The possible actions are: Harvest: Draw 3 cards. Follow: Draw 1 card. Develop: Discard 1 card to add a card to your castle as a resource. Follow: You may discard 2 cards to add a card to your castle as a resource. Build: Place gold on resources to add a building to your village and draw 1 card. Follow: You may place gold on resources to add a building to your village. Recruit: Pay 1 gold to add an adventurer to your village. Follow: Pay 2 gold to add an adventurer to your village. Tax: Collect 1 gold and draw 1 card. Follow: Draw 1 card. Credits: Game design: Rick Holzgrafe and Isaias Vallejo, illustrations: Mihajlo Dimitrievski. Game development: Isaias Vallejo, David Mackenzie.