2025Helge Ostertag, Anselm Ostertag
- Videos
- 35
- Creators
- 29
2 - 4 players80 - 100 minHeavy weight

2024Emesh De Zoysa
From BoardGameGeek
Welcome to Black Metro, a dystopian and chaotic city! Black Metro is a strategic area control game where players battle each other to amass the most power and become the next ruler of the dark city. Gather resources to research powerful technologies, build fortifications and upgrade units. Control districts through military strength and dominate your opponents. Gain massive power through syndicate support and mission objectives. Each of the six game rounds has four phases: Assignment, Dominance, Resolution, and Standby Phase. Because Black Metro is akin to a sandbox game, there are various pathways a player can take to ultimately claim victory. Players acquire power throughout the game by dominating districts, fulfilling missions and receiving syndicate backings. Players acquire power at the end of the game based on their total strength, number of researched technologies and stocked resources. Depending on a player's play style, the ratio of where their power comes from, will vary. -description from the publisher
Black Metro has 3 videos from 3 creators: 1 review and 2 how-to-play guides. They date from 2024 to April 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "Black Metro Deep Dive" by Absolute Ascendancy, which runs 29 min. For a quicker teach, "How to play Black Metro" by JestaThaRogue runs 9 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Black Metro - Board Game Review. We are fighting for control of the Dark City" by BoxedMeeples.
If you like it, try Feya's Swamp, Pest, Paris or Ants, which share several of its mechanics.
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2 - 4 players80 - 100 minHeavy weight
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2 - 4 players90 minMedium weight
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2 - 4 players90 minHeavy weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Welcome to Black Metro, a dystopian and chaotic city! Black Metro is a strategic area control game where players battle each other to amass the most power and become the next ruler of the dark city. Gather resources to research powerful technologies, build fortifications and upgrade units. Control districts through military strength and dominate your opponents. Gain massive power through syndicate support and mission objectives. Each of the six game rounds has four phases: Assignment, Dominance, Resolution, and Standby Phase. Because Black Metro is akin to a sandbox game, there are various pathways a player can take to ultimately claim victory. Players acquire power throughout the game by dominating districts, fulfilling missions and receiving syndicate backings. Players acquire power at the end of the game based on their total strength, number of researched technologies and stocked resources. Depending on a player's play style, the ratio of where their power comes from, will vary. -description from the publisher
Designer
Emesh De Zoysa
Artist
Diego Sanchez
Publisher
Absolute Ascendancy
Categories
Mechanics