Warsaw: City of Ruins

Warsaw: City of Ruins takes you to a city that largely survived its own destruction and rebuilt itself from scratch, and asks you to rebuild a piece of it. The Wola district is where old Saxon-era buildings, interwar architecture, socialist blocks and glass offices stand shoulder to shoulder, and your tile placement has to make something coherent out of that jumble. Everyone picks simultaneously, so you never wait on a slow decision, and patterns on your district decide the score. Closed drafting adds a little guessing. A 2016 economic city builder with an unusual, grounded theme for two to four players.