Asmodee Sid Meier's Civilization: A New Dawn Board Game - Rewrite History Your Way! Strategy Game for Kids & Adults , Ages 14+, 2-4 Players, 1-2 Hour Playtime

My son is a huge Civilization video game fan, and saved his own money to purchase this game. The pieces are durable, similar quality you would expect from an Arkham Horror or Twilight Imperium. My son did the setup and read the rules on his own and found the game to be easily playable even as it is more complex in its dynamics than a more conventional board game (Like Monopoly).

We’ve played this a number of times and it’s always fun. My partner likes generic strategy games like Azul and Splendor. I like more niche or complex strategy games. But we both love this one! It’s nice that there are multiple possible routes to victory, and we typically avoid head-to-head combat in favor of the victory conditions for building wonders, making scientific advancement, etc. The game feels balanced regardless of your preferred strategy. We have had one game last ~30 minutes, but most have been 2-3 hours (granted we tend to be slow at most games). We’ve only played with 2 players, but I imagine a four-person game brings a whole other dynamic. I’ve never played the Civ games on PC, so I’m reviewing purely its quality as a board game, and it is darn good.

If you love the computer version, then this game will be a lot of fun. There are a lot of rules and setting up takes time. Games will take a long time to play. But games are very engaging and fun once you learn the rules. There are a lot of strategies. Each civ has a special bonus like in the computer version. So each civ offers a unique play style. The game has wonders, techs, city-states, that you will recognize from the computer version. The game also uses modular map pieces that allow you to create random maps by assembling different pieces like a puzzle. This offers a lot of replayability. The two big weaknesses in the game are the lack of any real military play. There are no military units. You just roll the dices to "attack" a tile. I wish the game had military units. The other weakness is the lack of containers for all the tokens. There are a lot of different tokens and once you remove them, they will be loose in the box. I recommend getting some small ziplock bags to put all the tokens in. It will really help you organize everything nicely.

Love this game - but be sure to add the expansion pack. Takes the game to a whole new, completely different level.

Absolutely fantastic! It really delivers that classic civilization video game experience in the format of a board game. Obviously, there have to be major differences to allow this format change but it capture's the games essence very well. Like the video game, it's complex with endless choices and possibilities, yet also streamlined and very easy to play after the first play-through/learning game. Pros: - Very fun, games typically take around 2-3 hours which is not too long, but long enough to feel like the world/game actually evolves - Captures the video game's essence very well - Endless choices and possibilities - Map creation element generates countless random maps for a different setup every game - Turns can happen fairly rapidly, so you don't need to sit around waiting for other players too long Cons: - Tons of pieces/tokens and the box doesn't come with anything to store them and keep them separated - Setup takes quite a while (at least 15 minutes) - Wish the game supported up to 6 people (hopefully there will be expansions!) - Wish there were more victory scenario options - Rule-book is a little more complex than it needed to be

Lets start by saying that I’m a big Civilization fan, so the theme and scene is very familiar to me, so when I found out about a Civ board game there was a rush in me to buy it. If you are a fan of Civilization by Cid Meier games, you will find a theme rich and complex game in this. The other thing I have to say is that I only played (and will ever play) this game with the expansion. In my investigations pre-buy the reviews made it very clear that the expansion Terra Incognita fixed many of the problems and ambiguities of the base game and ads many well received mechanics. Now with review: The game put you in the shoes of civilization with unique advantages and leave you to form your own path to victory. The victory conditions are card that put and objective in the beginning. The first to complete this conditions, win; in a sense is a race to the finish. This is a long game, you should see yourself playing with friend for about 2.5-5 hours, in that sense is a epic game. One of my biggest complains with the game are the rules and how to learn them. The core system is easy and full of choice, you always have 5 (6 with the expansion) options that determinate your actions. The problem comes when there are a lot terms and in between the lines rules that affect the game and the rules fails to explain them. I short the rules book is a mess that gets worse with the expansion. Learning to play the game take like 1-2 hours of play time until you know what to do. When you do play, and you do understand the systems, it runs smooth like a well oil machine. The 5 options system is really cool and you should play it to really understand. The components in this game standard good. Like any Civilization game, you immerse yourself in the shoes of a leader and in the passing of the game you will fell your civilization growth, with your first city to you lv4 technology cards. The many leaders and win conditions makes for a long running game that have a lot of replay ability. Is you have a group that enjoys the thrill of building a civilization and have the patience to learn the rules by trial and error, this is a good game for that.

Amazing board game, but I would highly recommend to buy it with an expansion straight away. The expansion's name is "Terra Incognita".

Great job translating the PC classic into an awesome tabletop game. I was really surprised by the pace of the game and how smoothly it moved along. Combat was a bit too simple for my tastes, but there was still plenty of strategy involved in gameplay. An earlier reviewer commented on the amount of pieces (there are A LOT), and while I solved the organization problems by sorting them into sandwich baggies, there were a lot of sandwich baggies. Hopefully this helps speed up setup, as I put the pieces for each player in it's own bag. In spite of the volume of pieces, during play they weren't encumbering in any way, which made everything a breeze. Really had a great time playing with my teenagers, and I hope you do too.