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2017 Ranked #1,195

Little Town

A welcoming worker-placement game where each building changes the shared map—and the perfect location earns both its power and rent from your neighbors.

Family Games City Building Worker Placement Tile Placement Contracts

Players

2-4

Play time

30-60 min

Age

10+

Complexity

1.95/5

Rating

7.14

Easier to teach Highly interactive Light strategy

Overview

At a glance

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 4.3/5

Easier to teach

Replay value 4.2/5

High replayability

Interaction 4.0/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 3.2/5

Light strategy

Player control 4.0/5

More strategic control

Setup time About 7 min
Teach time About 10 min
Recommended edition Little Town – IELLO English edition (2019)
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How it plays

How does it play?

Place workers to collect every resource in the eight surrounding spaces, then build profitable structures whose powers anyone may use—for a fee.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

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Little Town packs a full worker-placement economy into four brisk rounds and a compact shared map. Each player sends three workers out per round. A gathering worker collects resources or activates effects from all eight surrounding spaces; a builder spends those materials to add one of the available building tiles. Placement matters twice: a well-sited structure improves your own future turns, and rivals who use it must pay you a coin before gaining its benefit. Random building sets and a double-sided board keep the neighborhood changing, while private objectives offer another direction for points. The result is accessible enough to teach quickly but interactive enough that every new farm, quarry, workshop, and market reshapes everyone’s plan.

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Editions

Language and publisher variants currently recorded in the catalog.

Edition Year Language Publisher / Region
Little Town – IELLO English edition (2019) 2019 English IELLO / US

Game and edition data

All specifications (25)

Play and group

Players
2–4
Play time
30–60 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.0/5
App
None app Source
Player elimination
No Source
Downtime
Low Source

Practicalities

Setup time
About 7 min Source
Teach time
About 10 min Source
Teardown time
About 7 min Source

Campaign and continuity

Group continuity
Flexible Source
Resettable
Fully Resettable Source
Save system
No save system; each four-round town is standalone. Source
Consumable components
No consumable components. Source

Edition and product

Optional extras
A double-sided board and randomized building market vary the shared worker-placement puzzle. Source
Recommended edition
Little Town – IELLO English edition (2019) Source
Language
English
Region
US
Availability
Current
Edition type
Standard Source
Current edition
Yes Source
Box weight
630 g Source
Box dimensions
20.3 × 20.3 × 6.4 cm Source
Consumable components
None. Source
Compatibility
Iello English Edition, Product Iel51611; Compatible With Little Town: Artisans. Source
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
Shun Taguchi Aya Taguchi

Artists

3
Sabrina Miramon Aya Taguchi Makoto Takami

Publishers

1
Studio GG

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