2016Isaias Vallejo
- Videos
- 60
- Creators
- 51
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1 - 5 players30 - 45 minMedium weight
Villages of Valeria
2017Rick Holzgrafe, Isaias Vallejo
1 - 5 players
30 - 60 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting
From BoardGameGeek
A village-building card game set in the world of Valeria. Establish resources, construct buildings, and attract adventurers to your Village to be crowned the next capitol city. Each player takes a turn taking one action from the following list and all other players may follow the action but with fewer rewards: Tax: Take 1 Gold and Draw 1 Card. (Follow: Draw 1 card.) Harvest: Draw 3 Cards. (Follow: Draw 1 card.) Develop: Discard 1 card to add a Resource to your village. (Follow: Discard 2 cards to add a Resource to your village.) Build: Add a building to your village. Draw a card. (Follow: Add a building to your village, but do not draw a card.) Recruit: Pay 1 Gold to add an Adventurer to your village. (Follow: Pay 2 Gold to add an Adventurer to your village.) Building cards can be used for 2 reasons. 1) Pay resources to add it to your village as a building and gain its benefit and VP. 2) Develop it as a Resource and place it under your Castle card. When building, use resources you have developed or pay another player 1 Gold to use their resource. The game ends when a player has built or recruited 10 buildings/Adventurers.
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Which Villages of Valeria video should I watch?
Villages of Valeria has 3 videos from 3 creators: 1 review, 1 how-to-play guide and 1 playthrough. They date from 2022 to March 2025.
To learn the rules, start with "Villages of Valeria | Solo | This Did Not Go According to Plan" by That Board Game Show, which runs 9 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Villages of Valeria Board Game Review" by Tabletop Gaming Guild. To see it played, watch "Solo Playthrough | Villages of Valeria" by Sir Thecos.
If you like it, try Valeria: Card Kingdoms, Margraves of Valeria, Castellans and Valeria: Card Kingdoms – Darksworn, also by Isaias Vallejo.
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About Villages of Valeria
From BoardGameGeek:
A village-building card game set in the world of Valeria. Establish resources, construct buildings, and attract adventurers to your Village to be crowned the next capitol city. Each player takes a turn taking one action from the following list and all other players may follow the action but with fewer rewards: Tax: Take 1 Gold and Draw 1 Card. (Follow: Draw 1 card.) Harvest: Draw 3 Cards. (Follow: Draw 1 card.) Develop: Discard 1 card to add a Resource to your village. (Follow: Discard 2 cards to add a Resource to your village.) Build: Add a building to your village. Draw a card. (Follow: Add a building to your village, but do not draw a card.) Recruit: Pay 1 Gold to add an Adventurer to your village. (Follow: Pay 2 Gold to add an Adventurer to your village.) Building cards can be used for 2 reasons. 1) Pay resources to add it to your village as a building and gain its benefit and VP. 2) Develop it as a Resource and place it under your Castle card. When building, use resources you have developed or pay another player 1 Gold to use their resource. The game ends when a player has built or recruited 10 buildings/Adventurers.
Designers
Rick Holzgrafe, Isaias Vallejo
Artist
Mihajlo Dimitrievski
Publisher
Daily Magic Games
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