Eagle-Gryphon Games Lisboa Deluxe Edition: By Vital Lacerda

Out of the 50 board games I have this is in my top 5

Super thematic.....very complex....good solo mode....a colllectors item....beautiful....for those who relish steep learning ....it has an introductory card system...

Good game

I bought this, because it won BoardGameGeek's 1st place award for artwork this year. It definitely lives up to that with artwork inspired by the style of Azulejo Tiles. It's a relatively big game which takes up a lot of space, and the money counters are bizarre which I will probably replace with coins at some point. Those are its only two downsides. The rules are well laid out with plenty of examples which are summarized well in the player aids. In play, I found it to be a complex, but entertaining game in which players compete for prestige(Whigs) by rebuilding Lisbon after the earthquake of 1755. During the game, each player represents a merchant family. In the process of rebuilding Lisbon, the players will have to find the money through trade to build and interact with the courts of the King, the Prime Minister, and the Master builder to secure the permits, blueprints, and decrees required to win. There are economic factors and the church that come into play during the game. While players get scored for the buildings that they build and where they build them during the game, the end of game scoring adds several other items including money, influence, decrees satisfied, and rubble cleared which opens the game up to more paths to victory than primarily real estate acquisition.

Excelente estado