Board Game Geek Avg Player Rating: 10.00
Players: 2 to 5
Published: 2018
Content Notes: Kickstarter Deluxe Edition of Streets Board Game by Sinister Fish Games. Includes Deluxe Edition base game, Kickstarter Promo Pack, and all unlocked stretch goals. Please note: unless otherwise stated paid add ons from the Kickstarter Campaign are not included.
The city, , was once a small and insignificant town, but the affordable properties have attracted artists, startup companies and families. Celebrities and influencers are moving in, and after some recent archeological findings, a new tourist industry is blooming. Street by street, the new people are transforming the city into a centre of commerce and culture.
Designed and illustrated by Haakon Hoel Gaarder (Villagers), Streets is an easy to learn tile laying game for 1-5 players where you build new streets in a growing city. Through careful planning and placement, the aim is to make the most money from selling your buildings.
The city is populated by increasing numbers of people (wooden meeples), each with their own preferences. These hipsters, tourists, shoppers, and parents increase the value of any buildings they occupy, and they move from street to street as they are scored. Youll need to locate your buildings carefully and attract the right crowd to earn more than your opponents!Lay tiles and influence people!Some of the building tiles found in Streets.
Streets isreallyeasy to teach! If one person knows the rules, you can open the box and be playing in less than 5 minutes. Heres the basics:
Add meeples according to the colour and number of icons at the bottom of the tile you played. Youll also add an Ownership Token in your player colour.
Calculate how much each building is worth based on the Valuation in the top right corner, adding $1 for every meeple.
The player who enclosed the street moves the meeples on it to new buildings of matching colours on unenclosed streets. Meeples who cant move stand up and get FOMO (fear of missing out), and theyll move immediately to matching buildings when new ones are built.
There are lots of opportunities to create scoring combos, and to profit from other players, buildings. The number of meeples in play increases as the game goes on, raising the stakes and the tension! Though the game is suitable for new gamers, these dynamic mechanics create a lot of depth that seasoned gamers will enjoy.
The Business expansion makes use of the icons on the top left of every building tile. Each building has one or more Home, Shop, Restaurant, Recreation, or Wild icon on it. Business tokens and some of the tiles that generate them.
Whenever a street is scored, every player with a building in that street gets to take a business token matching the icon ononeof their buildings. At the end of the game theres a $10 bonus for the player with the most tokens of each type, and $10 for every set of all four tokens.
A simple addition to the game, but a big change to the way youll play! Included in every copy of the game are seven Consultant cards (70x120mm tarot size) which give each player a really powerful and unique special ability. Deal one Consultant card out at random to each player during setup and youre good to go!Six of the seven Consultants that come with the game.
Both of the expansions are optional, and we recommend playing without either of them the first time you play, or if youre playing with a group that prefers simpler games. The expansions add extra crunch to the decisions youll make as you play!
A game of Streets in progress.
Streets can be played by one player versus an AI opponent called The Grifter, using a simple set of rules and no extra components. You can find more information on this in thedraft rulebook.
More building tiles – theyre the same in standard and deluxe editions.
Weve taken great care to ensure that Streets offers excellent value for money right out of the box, and weve come up with a number of cosmetic and usability upgrades to both editions of the game that we can include even at the minimum funding goal. Rather than throw everything at you at once, well reveal these additions as the campaign goes on. Since weve already budgeted for them, they wont be tied to the overall funding level, but we will make you work for them 😀New artwork will be revealed below…
The more copies of the game we order from the factory, the cheaper they become. We can use those savings to add some cool new content for backersat no extra charge. The more backers who join us, the more extras we can include for everyone.
In short, more backers means more free stuff for everyone!The free promo pack is our way of saying thankyou to backers for supporting this campaign. After the campaign it will only be available direct from Sinister Fish Games at an appropriate price plus shipping.*
