2024Adam Hill, Ben Pinchback, Matt Riddle
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1 - 5 players25 - 45 minLight weight

2023Adam Hill, Ben Pinchback, Matt Riddle
Mainly reviews and playthroughs. Motor City is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 16 reviews, 6 how-to-play guides, 9 recorded sessions, 7 unboxings, and 2 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
Motor City is a strategic roll-and-write game about running an auto plant in the heyday of Detroit. In Motor City, you have two player sheets, each with multiple areas. These areas are represented by tracks that you will mark off as you make progress. Many of the tracks are interconnected with other elements in the game, giving you bonuses along the way and opportunities to unlock more points. Advancing on all of these tracks offers various amounts of points, advancements, and bonuses. The game lasts eight rounds. Each round, roll colored dice based on the number of players, then place them on spaces on the blueprint table based on value and color. Each player drafts one die and uses it. Once everyone has drafted a die twice, all players get to use the remaining die on the blueprint table. After eight rounds, you score points for your progress in engineering, assembly, testing, and more. Whoever has the most points wins. Motor City has a solo mode in which you try to top your own score against an auditor that drafts dice and blocks areas of your sheet. Its difficulty can easily be adjusted by changing the colors of dice during setup, with no added rules. Motor City is game 3 of the Motor City Gameworks Loaded Roll and Write series. Game 1: Fleet: The Dice Game Game 2: Three Sisters Game 3: Motor City –description from the designer
Motor City has 40 videos from 33 creators: 16 reviews, 6 how-to-play guides, 9 playthroughs, 7 unboxings and 2 other videos. They date from 2022 to February 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "Motor City | Kickstarter Preview + Tutorial | Loaded Roll & Write #3" by All You Can Board, which runs 18 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Motor City Review: Start Your Engine Building" by The Dice Tower. 14 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Motor City prototype playthrough" by Just Got Played, one of 9 playthroughs.
If you like it, try River Valley Glassworks, Godspeed and Beyond the Horizon, also by Adam Hill, or Three Sisters, also by Ben Pinchback.
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1 - 5 players25 - 45 minLight weight
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From BoardGameGeek:
Motor City is a strategic roll-and-write game about running an auto plant in the heyday of Detroit. In Motor City, you have two player sheets, each with multiple areas. These areas are represented by tracks that you will mark off as you make progress. Many of the tracks are interconnected with other elements in the game, giving you bonuses along the way and opportunities to unlock more points. Advancing on all of these tracks offers various amounts of points, advancements, and bonuses. The game lasts eight rounds. Each round, roll colored dice based on the number of players, then place them on spaces on the blueprint table based on value and color. Each player drafts one die and uses it. Once everyone has drafted a die twice, all players get to use the remaining die on the blueprint table. After eight rounds, you score points for your progress in engineering, assembly, testing, and more. Whoever has the most points wins. Motor City has a solo mode in which you try to top your own score against an auditor that drafts dice and blocks areas of your sheet. Its difficulty can easily be adjusted by changing the colors of dice during setup, with no added rules. Motor City is game 3 of the Motor City Gameworks Loaded Roll and Write series. Game 1: Fleet: The Dice Game Game 2: Three Sisters Game 3: Motor City –description from the designer
Designers
Adam Hill, Ben Pinchback, Matt Riddle
Artists
Ilya Avakov, Marlies Barends
Publisher
25th Century Games
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Mechanics