IELLO: Little Town, Strategy Board Game, Fun for The Whole Family, Tactical and Interactive, 45 Minute Play Time, 2 to 4 Players, Ages 10 and Up

Great light worker placement game where you are building your board. Attractive art and components. Easy to learn and teach. Plays quickly. The game plays over 4 rounds. Each player has a certain number of workers depending on player count. On your turn, you can either (1) place a worker on an empty square on the board to gather resources or activate buildings in the 8 squares that surround your worker, or (2) use a worker (and resources) to build a building that you will place on an empty square of the map. Most buildings give immediate points when built and have an ability that can be activated on future turns. When placing a building, you put one of your color houses on it. You can activate that building for free in later turns, or other players can pay you a coin to activate your building. The choice of where to place your worker on the board becomes more and more interesting as buildings begin to fill up the formerly empty squares. Each player also has secret goals that will give them extra points if achieved. This game does not overstay its welcome. With 4 players, each player will only have 12 turns. (3 workers per round). Little Town is extremely easy to learn and teach. Highly recommended for families and gamers who enjoy lighter fare with fun choices.

When you're looking for something light and fun check this game out. The rules are simple to learn and gameplay goes pretty fast. The board is a field with randomly spread out lakes, forests, and mountains. Place your worker on the board and he collects resources that are adjacent to him. Use those resources to build structures that can produce other resources, coins, or to gain stars. Be sure to have enough wheat and fish to feed your workers at the end of the round. The one who has the most stars at the end of the game wins. The game is different every time as the structures you can build are randomized for each game. The board can be flipped over for a different field where the forests, lakes, and mountains are in a different location.

I picked this up after a podcaster review. This is a short duration, easy to learn worker placement game for 2-4 players. Each turn you are either buying a building or putting out a worker and triggering nearby buildings or resources. Easy as that! Since you choose the order in which the affected buildings trigger, there is also the ability to strategize which buildings should be placed near each other and what order to trigger them in. I thought this was a great, lite game for developing that strategic thinking. The production quality is very good.

This might be viewed as just another worker placement game, but I like the mechanics and the components are visually attractive. With two players each side tends to cluster their buildings with little cross over. Having to pay $1 for using another building makes it difficult enough that it's never easy to leverage the other player's buildings. Expensive buildings may not always be a good investment. They can be tricky to play. Having two boards adds to variety. Well balanced and always entertaining for gamers of all abilities.

Juego divertido y versátil

My spouse and I both play lots of board games, and we found that this game lacked the level of depth that we enjoy when playing other games together. That being said, it is a great introductory worker placement game to play with our younger children (ages 5, 8 and 10) to get them used to this style of game. There is an expansion to this game that we do not own, so I am not sure if that would add the additional complexity that would hold our attention when we play just the 2 of us.

Excellent light game with simple clear rules and worker placement mechanics as is, without unnecessary complex overloads. Gameplay is a very natural. Nice artwork.

Joueurs assidus de jeu de gestion de ressources, nous avions une petite crainte sur la "relative" simplicité des règles, et bien, notre crainte est effacée, car malgré cette simplicité, le jeu reste terriblement fun et varié dans les stratégies pouvant être adoptées. Bref, belle surprise créée par ce petit jeu. PS : Petit mot fort sympatique du distributeur lors de l'envoi du colis. Vraiment super sympa ! je recommande.

I bought this game partly because other gamers had recommended it, but also because it was an excellent price here. I am very glad I did. It's a great little game. It only has 4 rounds, so it plays through very quickly, even if you debate your turn for a bit. It's a straightforward worker placement, resource gathering, building type game, but because there are only 4 rounds you have to make sure to maximize your VP collection with still having enough food to feed your workers at the end of each round. I would highly recommend this game to anyone, whether they are established at these sorts of games or not. It is tidy, quick and fun. I think it is a good intro game into bigger, similar games of its type.

Este juego es una verdadera joya. Apenas estoy comenzando con los juegos de mesa como castillos de Borgoña, takenoko, splendor. Al jugar este juego, la verdad me gustó bastante. En un día jugamos 3 partidas a dos jugadores. A pesar de ser una pequeña caja, guarda componentes de excelente calidad, desde las figuras hasta el tablero a doble cara que junto con las locetas nde construcción le dan una gran re jugabilidad. Un juego muy estratégico en dónde una acción mal jugada te puede costar la partida. Te quedas con ganas de jugar la siguiente. Debe estar en tu ludoteca.

Great little game. Nice short playtime with built in timing mechanic. Simple enough for my 7 year old to quickly get a hang of yet enough depth to keep us adults wanting to play too. With limited actions each is important but it's not so cluttered with options that you have analysis paralysis every turn. Will stay in regular rotation in our house.

Das Spiel ist knuffig gestaltet und hat überschaubare Regeln – bei mir leider auch in Englisch – wobei man sich dennoch alles mit auch weniger guten Sprachkenntnissen erschließen kann. Die einfache Grundmechanik fühlt sich pfiffig und neu an und bedient doch gewohnte Mechanismen (Figuren einsetzen – Rohstoffe nehmen – bauen) – so ist das Spiel nach einigen spannenden Runden flott zu Ende. Das ist kein Problem denn eine Partie bleibt hier selten alleine und durch die unterschiedlichen Kartenauslagen wirkt das Spiel nicht repetitiv. Für Gelegenheitsspieler und Familien: voll zu empfehlen.