Paris - City of Light
Paris - City of Light
Paris: City of Light is how I translate the title (it's actually Paris: La Cité de la Lumière) and street lights play an important part in the game. It's also a game of two halves, the first part setting up the board for the second. Though it's perfectly possible for your opponent to wreck your preparations when it comes to actually playing the second half.
The aim is to get your buildings onto the board (carefully contained within the game's box) so that they are illuminated by Parisian street lights. However, you can only put your buildings on cobbled areas in your colour – or neutral. Hence the importance of the first half, which is when you lay cobblestone (and street light) tiles and grab buildings. But it's only in the second half that you score points and it's so easy to come unstuck!
I really enjoyed this game when I played it at Spiel '19 and it looks pretty as well. I now have the Eiffel expansion.
For 2 players, aged 8+, playing time 30 minutes
Paris: City of Light was designed by José Antonio Abascal Acebo and is published by Devir
Find out more:
Paris: City of Light on BoardGameGeek
Pevans's first impressions of Paris: City of Light at Spiel '19 in To Win Just Once issue 200 (PDF, 6 Mb)
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