Top 10 Games Set in and around Paris

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Experience Paris as a cardboard time-traveler, with board games spanning the French experience from culture and politics to art and architecture. Sorted by approximate time period, not my personal preference, or Heir of Frankenstein would be at the top for its top-notch blend of theme and great mechanics.

As a dressmaker under Louis XV, you have seven days to make the upcoming ball a grand event. In this charming deck builder, you hire workers to fashion dresses and coats for the guests. Players gain additional prestige by providing musicians, fireworks, or decorations.

This cult classic card game about the post-revolution Reign of Terror is a house favorite. Guillotine is a line management/set collection game where players control the line of nobles awaiting their demise. Using action cards, players reorder the line, chop, and collect. After three days of mayhem, tally the scores.

Also set during the Reign of Terror, this mission-based game follows the dashing (but fictional) Scarlet Pimpernel as he makes daring rescues of those destined for its blade. You play as his advisor, arranging hideouts and collecting resources to achieve his missions, which culminate with the removal of the Dauphin to safety.

You’re in the very gothic Paris of 1819, with an opportunity to use Frankenstein’s research to assemble your own creature. This dark, thematic game has players scour the streets, cemeteries, and hanging squares of Paris to acquire the materials to build their creatures. Decisions affecting players’ Humanity and Reputation dials and an ever-watching Captain make for a long, absorbing game.

The train age comes to France as you build out from Paris. This light, fast-playing filler is more economic sim than rail builder, as players manipulate the price of stocks by placing locomotives on a colorful map of France. It’s an easy teach that has enough strategic depth to keep you coming back for more.

It’s 1871, and a revolutionary force takes over the French government. The