Description

Players 1 – 5         Ages 10+          30 – 60mins

The city was once a small and sleepy town, but affordable properties have attracted artists, startup companies, and families. Celebrities and influencers are moving in, and after some recent archeological findings, the tourist industry is booming. Street by street, the city is transforming into a centre of culture and commerce!

Mechanically, Streets is quite simple and teaching it only takes a few minutes. We aimed to give players enough options to make it interesting & satisfying without being overwhelming, and interactive without being mean.

Gameplay is straightforward; players take turns to place one building tile from a hand of three, putting an ownership sign in their player colour on each building they place. People (custom wooden meeples) are put on buildings according to the colour & number of icons at the bottom. Each person increases the value of the building it occupies.

Rows of up to five buildings form streets. When a street becomes enclosed at each end, every building on it scores according to the valuation in its top right corner. After scoring, any people in the street try to move to buildings on streets that haven’t been enclosed. For instance, green people (parents) will try to move to green parent-friendly buildings. In the same way, yellow people (hipsters) will try to go to yellow hipster hotspots. Crowds of meeples grow as the game goes on, and so the stakes get higher and higher. Careful planning is important because the player who encloses a street gets to decide where those people move next.