Uchronia Card Game First Impressions

Uchronia is one of a few resource management and town-building games I’ve played in my time…

But none are like this. (Sort of)

In Uchronia, you are the patriarch of a great Uchronian noble house, competing with the other houses that commit their wealth to building the city, enriching it with new constructions, and striving to win over the people.

Apparently, this is a re-implementation of Glory to Rome, a game I haven’t played. Although it did feel like an Alhambra advanced?

It’s a hard game to explain without making it sound confusing so I’ll give the lite version.

Cards double as stock and abilities. Stock is the resource used to build buildings and abilities are played from your hand and boosted with ability cards you have stored as “Activities”. As someone mentioned, just like Eminent Domain in a way.

Abilities

On your turn, you can play abilities as follows…

Production – Take a card from the pool into your stock
Exploration – Put a card from your hand into your stock
Draconian – Reveal a card from your hand, put a matching card from the pool into your stock, plus a matching card from each player’s hand into your stock
Trade – Transfer a card from the stock to an ability
Construction – Take a building from the pool to start construction or move matching resources from your stock to a building under construction to help build it.

Buildings (and other things) are worth points, get to X points and players take an even number of turns. Most points win.

Uchronia Summary

I really liked this game but I know when a game ends and I want to play it again it either means I enjoyed it, or I messed up somewhere and want a second chance.

However, I really want to play it again. I loved the mechanics, the moderate level of interactivity and the intuitive iconography.

Very good game.

Update 22/05/2018

I played it a couple of times more and enjoyed it.

So I mentioned at the start of the review that I hadn’t played Glory to Rome, but I have since. I like the look of Uchronia more so it wins out for me. But, they are both beaten by the adorable Mottainai.

All 3 games use the same system but Mottainai does it better for me.

Jesta ThaRogue