Village is for 2 to 4 players, and is another beautifully produced Eurogame based on village life over several generations - we dubbed it "EuroGame of Life". The board has a church, a set of craft buildings, a market, a range of towns to travel to outside the village, and a council chamber.
There are influence cubes of different colours which are picked up whenever you carry out an action at a location and then used to perform other actions. The scramble for the right cubes and the right actions is how the players interact and nobble each other. As a generation ages, its meeples eventually end up in the village chronicle or the graveyard.
The rules were long and it took a while to go through them, but once you've heard them, you've got it - and the board is covered with reminders (e.g. on the roofs of craft buildings) about what actions can be carried out at each place.
Very few points are recorded on the turn track as the game plays out - most are calculated in the final scoring e.g. places travelled to, status in church and council - so you don't know exactly who is winning at any one time. Not necessarily anyway, but it was clear that David was running away with this one. Final scores: David 73, James 58, Kieron 52 and Andy 45. A really fun and clever game.
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