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2015 · 2-5 players · 50min · weight 2.17 · 626 ratings

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ID
177490
Name
Samara
Year
2015
Rank
7329
Min players
2
Max players
5
Playing time
50
Min playtime
25
Max playtime
50
Avg weight
2.1667
Num weights
18
Bayes avg
5.65497
Average
6.22986
Users rated
626
Num owned
1238
Wanting
10
Wishing
111
Num comments
214
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (1)
Turn Order: Time Track
Categories (2)
City BuildingMedieval
Description (1095 chars)

Travel back through history to a settlement called Samara, where you lead a group of builders. At the start of the game, they can build only a sandcastle, cave or huts. For more complex buildings, you first invest time in skills, strength, or new workers. Building special projects gives you benefits or hurts all your rivals. In the end you want to have the most prestigious buildings. The worker timetrack is the key mechanism. Each of your choices costs a number of your workers a number of months. Your workers can spend time on: Improving skills to build with wood (saw tool), stone (trowel tool) and glass (blowing tool). Building houses or special projects. Getting a new worker or exercising to become a stronger worker. Going on vacation. The spaces on the game board determine how many workers (1-4 on the left board axis) are occupied how many months (1-9 on the bottom board axis). Players plan to let their workers spend time effectively, choosing when to invest and when to build for prestige. The prestige points determine who is the best foreman of Samara.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).