🎯 The Goal
Lead a powerful, wealthy family enterprise in the year 2077 through a dystopian, post-industrial Northern Italy, expanding your corporate network to control key metropolitan regions and out-maneuvering rival megacorporations to claim supreme global hegemony.
⚙️ Core Actions
Designed by Miguel Bruque, the game is a highly tactical, innovative twist on classic trick-taking card dynamics combined with strategic set collection:
- Play Trick-Taking Resource Cards: Each turn, players play a resource card from their hand into a central trick. Winning the trick gives you access to high-value rewards, but losing is often intentionally desirable.
- Claim Cities or Enemy Resources: The outright winner of the trick gets to choose between claiming one of the face-up City Cards from the public pool to establish a foothold or seizing a powerful Resource Card played by an opponent during that trick.
- Harvest Matching Set Icons: Players who lose the trick get to retain the cards they personally played. Keeping these cards allows you to build a personal tableau; matching two identical capability symbols instantly unlocks unique action modifiers and specialized resource multipliers.
- Navigate City Curses and Plagues: Contend with shifting local modifiers, such as dealing with invasive Pestilence (Rat) markers or navigating changing political landscapes manipulated by the Governor, which can drastically alter city point yields.
- Score Across Three Intensive Rounds: Carefully balance short-term card effects against long-term territory scoring. The game concludes after three full production rounds, where the family with the most optimized victory points establishes dominant control over Italy.
🧠 Why you’ll like it
It takes a beloved, traditional genre—trick-taking—and masterfully reinvents it inside a sleek, cyberpunk neon landscape. The core psychological genius of the game lies in its counter-intuitive scoring loop: winning a trick lets you seize immediate real estate, but losing allows you to hoard crucial cards to chain together devastating industrial combos. For gaming groups looking for a fast-playing, zero-bloat card game that rewards sharp card-counting, hand management, and constantly shifts who holds the psychological upper hand, it is an exceptionally clever tactical duel.