Snowdonia

The peaks of Snowdonia rise before you, encased in mist, their summits barely visible. The highest is Snowdon (Wyddfa) herself at 1,085 metres. The year is 1894, and the Snowdon Mountain Tramroad and Hotels Company Limited has been formed to build a branch line from Llanberis to the summit. You can scarcely believe it's possible! In Snowdonia, players represent work gangs providing labour for the construction of the Snowdon Mountain Railway. Unlike other train games you will have to excavate your way up a mountain side, as well as make and lay the track, construct viaducts and stations. All this in competition with the weather of the Welsh mountains (and the game itself)! You may be assisted by a train (though that's not always best) and you'll be able to collect essential materials from the Stock Yard. You will obtain special work contracts that give you bonuses. Can you contribute more than the other players to the magnificence of the Snowdon Mountain Railway?

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  "game_id": 119432,
  "name": "Snowdonia",
  "core_verb": "place worker on action space",
  "decision_shape": "combinatorial",
  "reward_schedule": "mixed:immediate+delayed",
  "aesthetics": [
    "Challenge",
    "Discovery"
  ],
  "core_loop_pitch": "Place workers to grab cubes, excavate rubble, and lay track up the mountain while weather throttles your output.",
  "mobile_translation_difficulty": "Medium",
  "translation_difficulty_reason": "Worker placement with shared track-building works on touch, but the weather/event deck and contract layer need careful UI to stay legible on phone.",
  "direct_digital_port": null,
  "direct_digital_port_kind": null,
  "closest_loop_translation": "none yet",
  "primitive_tags": [
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    "weather_throttled_output",
    "shared_construction_progress",
    "contract_objective_cards",
    "stockyard_resource_pull"
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  "confidence": 0.6
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