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Ostia: The Harbor of Rome

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2005 · 3-5 players · 60min · weight 2.49 · 524 ratings

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ID
19074
Name
Ostia: The Harbor of Rome
Year
2005
Rank
13206
Min players
3
Max players
5
Playing time
60
Min playtime
60
Max playtime
60
Avg weight
2.4857
Num weights
70
Bayes avg
5.54995
Average
5.81075
Users rated
524
Num owned
1153
Wanting
18
Wishing
59
Num comments
214
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (3)
Auction / BiddingCommodity SpeculationTrading
Categories (2)
AncientEconomic
Description (723 chars)

Ostia is an economic game of trading goods and donating them to the senate of Rome. You have to decide, whether you want to earn money for your goods or whether you want to donate some of them to the senate. The senate grants victory points for the most needed goods, but no money. Therefore you have to put some goods to the market, hoping that they are rarely sold there to earn enough money for the next trading phase. The ranking of goods mostly needed changes each round and you can see the ranking for the next round. Accordingly you may decide to keep some of the goods for next round, when they are more valuable to the senate. But you can keep only one card of goods per storehouse and storehouses are expensive.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).