2023Simone Luciani, Nestore Mangone
- Videos
- 100
- Creators
- 74
Mainly reviews and unboxings
1 - 4 players60 - 120 minHeavy weight
Baghdad: The City of Peace
2025Fabio Lopiano, Nestore Mangone
- Videos
- 19
- Creators
- 14
Mainly reviews. Baghdad: The City of Peace is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 8 reviews, 3 how-to-play guides, 4 recorded sessions, 3 unboxings, and 1 other video.
1 - 4 players
90 - 120 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach
From BoardGameGeek
Set during Baghdad's Golden Age, players take on the role of Viziers, looking to build their family's prestige and grow the great City of Peace. Move your Vizier around the circular city, collecting scientific equipment, teaching students, and translating works. Each turn, play a card, pushing another card out of your tableau and triggering its ability. Build up sets of icons to pull of more difficult actions and plan ahead to complete upcoming objectives. Work together to build the Golden Palace, Fill the House of Wisdom, and send ships down the Tigris. Baghdad: The City of Peace is programmed hand management game featuring a mega rondel. Points are scored for Night Characters, Artefacts, Favour, and Shame tokens. The player with the highest total score wins, becoming the most eminent courtier in the great City of Peace. A retail version of this game was cancelled and only the Deluxe edition was printed thus all copies include the Golden Age Expansions. -description from the publisher
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Which Baghdad: The City of Peace video should I watch?
Baghdad: The City of Peace has 19 videos from 14 creators: 8 reviews, 3 how-to-play guides, 4 playthroughs, 3 unboxings and 1 other video. They date from 2025 to August 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "Baghdad: The City Of Peace - Kickstarter Preview" by Board Game Buzzz, which runs 21 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Baghdad: City of Peace ►►► This has proven to me what the greatest mechanism is in board games!!" by Rahdo Runs Through. 8 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Baghdad: The City of Peace - Solo Playthrough" by Waris Ali, one of 4 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Darwin's Journey, Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon and Entropy, also by Nestore Mangone, or Calimala, also by Fabio Lopiano.
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About Baghdad: The City of Peace
From BoardGameGeek:
Set during Baghdad's Golden Age, players take on the role of Viziers, looking to build their family's prestige and grow the great City of Peace. Move your Vizier around the circular city, collecting scientific equipment, teaching students, and translating works. Each turn, play a card, pushing another card out of your tableau and triggering its ability. Build up sets of icons to pull of more difficult actions and plan ahead to complete upcoming objectives. Work together to build the Golden Palace, Fill the House of Wisdom, and send ships down the Tigris. Baghdad: The City of Peace is programmed hand management game featuring a mega rondel. Points are scored for Night Characters, Artefacts, Favour, and Shame tokens. The player with the highest total score wins, becoming the most eminent courtier in the great City of Peace. A retail version of this game was cancelled and only the Deluxe edition was printed thus all copies include the Golden Age Expansions. -description from the publisher
Designers
Fabio Lopiano, Nestore Mangone
Artist
Roland MacDonald
Publisher
Alley Cat Games
Categories
ArabianCity BuildingMedieval
Mechanics