Build a big city (that fits on a small table) in this cute card-based city builder
It's enjoyable to plop down a building and watch it get built, either by wee little peasants or by tiny construction crews, depending on the era of the city builder you're playing. But I've discovered a new and satisfying way to watch buildings get assembled: when they're folded together out of little bits of cardboard.
That's because I'm playing Cardboard Town(opens in new tab), a city builder that takes place on top of a table. Build something like a condo or a power plant and it'll fold itself together as if it's part of a tabletop game—you can see the lovely animation of several different buildings folding themselves up in the trailer above. But despite your city being small enough to fit on a table, Cardboard Town still manages to capture the sprawl and scope (and problems) of a big city.
Cardboard Town is a card game: everything you build will come from a card dealt to you, and each card costs a certain amount of money to play. Building houses adds people (which in turn gives you more money, letting you play more cards each turn), wind turbines add electricity, parks make your city more environmentally friendly, and so on.
Cards also have an effect on your four resources: water, electricity, safety, and environment. A coal power plant will boost electricity but take your environment score down a few points, and a police station will improve the safety of your citizens but cost electricity. It's all about finding a balance, building and expanding while trying to keep a surplus of your resources. You can go into a deficit for a while by building too many electricity-dependent buildings or not having enough water towers, but if three of your four resources all drop below zero at the same time, it's game over.
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