Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Build rival Renaissance cities, feed their people, and compete in health, culture, and education as citizens migrate toward the most attractive urban centers.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Area Majority
Compete to have the strongest presence in areas that award control or points.
Tile Placement
Place tiles to build a shared or personal spatial arrangement.
Commodity Speculation
Buy or influence goods whose values change before they are sold or scored.
Open Drafting
Select cards or items from a shared face-up display.
Modular Board
Build the play area from interchangeable sections that vary between games.
Read the full game description
La Città is a demanding city-building game about the forces that make people abandon one principality for another. Each player begins with two castles in the Italian countryside and expands them with farms, quarries, marketplaces, bathhouses, universities, and other hexagonal buildings. Food supports population, money pays for construction, and public buildings create influence in health, culture, or education. At the end of each round the Voice of the People reveals which quality citizens value most; neighboring cities compare their strength in that category, and population migrates toward the stronger city. Growth therefore creates both opportunity and risk: an impressive city scores well, but every resident must be fed and overcrowding can become a liability. Six rounds of open card drafting, spatial planning, and sharp local competition reward balanced infrastructure and perfectly timed specialization.
