Night Soil
2025Jon Moffat
- Videos
- 19
- Creators
- 13
Mainly reviews. Night Soil is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 8 reviews, 2 how-to-play guides, 3 recorded sessions, 4 unboxings, and 2 other videos.
2 - 5 players
60 - 90 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach
From BoardGameGeek
Night Soil is a very mature game about sanitation in Tudor London. As the exemplar of cultural progress in Europe, Tudor London (1485-1603) is at the spear's edge of cultural and technological development. However, as modern plumbing is still generations away, the city is gradually filling up with human waste, making it a terribly fragrant place to live. In the game, players run competing night soil companies. By night, laborer cards will be used to carefully maneuver waste cubes through the narrow streets of London to turn a profit and to recruit workers. By day, these workers can be sent out into London to advertise, to garner favor with local businesses, or to improve their company's assets. However, crowds of workers do tend to add to the waste problem. At the end of the game, the player who has managed to make the most money wins! -description from the designer
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Which Night Soil video should I watch?
Night Soil has 19 videos from 13 creators: 8 reviews, 2 how-to-play guides, 3 playthroughs, 4 unboxings and 2 other videos. They date from 2025 to September 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "Night Soil | How to Play | Learn To Play in 11 Minutes!" by kovray, which runs 11 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Night Soil - Hooray to These Sanitation Heroes😆" by Meeple University. 7 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Night Soil | Competing To Clean Up The Streets of London | Kickstarter Playthrough" by kovray, one of 3 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Burned, also by Jon Moffat, or World Order, Mysthea and Endless Winter: Paleoamericans, which share several of its mechanics. It appears in convention videos from Spiel Essen 2025.
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About Night Soil
From BoardGameGeek:
Night Soil is a very mature game about sanitation in Tudor London. As the exemplar of cultural progress in Europe, Tudor London (1485-1603) is at the spear's edge of cultural and technological development. However, as modern plumbing is still generations away, the city is gradually filling up with human waste, making it a terribly fragrant place to live. In the game, players run competing night soil companies. By night, laborer cards will be used to carefully maneuver waste cubes through the narrow streets of London to turn a profit and to recruit workers. By day, these workers can be sent out into London to advertise, to garner favor with local businesses, or to improve their company's assets. However, crowds of workers do tend to add to the waste problem. At the end of the game, the player who has managed to make the most money wins! -description from the designer
Designer
Jon Moffat
Artist
Jesse Gillespie
Publisher
Grail Games
Categories
Renaissance
Mechanics