Wednesday, May 31, 2023

CGE Announces New Game ‘Kutná Hora: The City of Silver’ Based On Real Life Bohemian Town

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Czech Games Edition (Galaxy Trucker, Deal With The Devil) announced a brand new title to add to their line of heavier economic games with Kutná Hora: The City of Silver, from designers Ondřej Bystroň, Petr Čáslava, and Pavel Jarosch.

Kutná Hora is a historical city building euro game for 2–4 players that features a real-life supply and demand experience where every action you take has an impact on the game’s dynamic economic systems.

In each round, players take turns selecting actions from a hand of double-sided cards to engage strategic plans like mining, purchasing plots of land to build on, gaining permits, raising buildings for their affiliated guilds, gaining profit from their production, and of course working towards the construction of Saint Barbara’s Cathedral.

The asymmetrical nature of each player’s available guilds makes for highly interactive rounds where each decision impacts the economy and other players in interesting ways as they expand their mines and build infrastructure across a shared board.

Mine ore and smelt it into a fortune of silver for expanding this beautiful historic city, but take care to balance your personal goal advancement with the need to further the city’s growth. Everything is connected, and sometimes the path to personal victory relies on the prosperity of the many.

Kutna Hora box

Game Contents

  • 1 Main board
  • 1 Supplementary board for the buildings offer
  • 4 Dual layer player boards
  • 2 Stands for the market decks
  • St. Barbara tiles
  • Guild tiles
  • Building tiles
  • Mine tiles
  • Councilor tokens
  • Cardboard coins
  • Action cards
  • Market cards
  • Setup cards
  • Set of tokens for each player
    • buildings
    • mines
    • plots
    • points, reputation, and production trackers
  • 1 Rulebook
  • Reference sheets for each player

Kutná Hora: The City of Silver is set for a European launch at Essen Spiel 2023, with a North American launch shortly after, retailing at $59.99.

Images via CGE

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