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Jun 22, 2025·Review·21:43·5734·Watch on YouTube

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Watch “3 More Solo Games from Button Shy!,” a board game review for Ancient Realm from The Dice Tower on BoardGameVideo.

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Zee checks out a new slew of pocket-sized games from publisher Button Shy! 0:00 - Intro 0:34 - Overview of The Last Lighthouse 5:55 - Thoughts 7:46 - Overview of Aqua Rove 12:19 - Thoughts 14:17 - Overview of Ancient Realm 18:28 - Thoughts Check out Great Tables, Games, & Bags at: https://www.allplay.com Support the Dice Tower on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DiceTower For the best selection of games to inspire fun and meaningful time together, check out BoardGameBliss: https://www.boardgamebliss.com?sca_ref=7335244.G9P3mZoBbnAp1TCe Find Conventions, Merchandise, and Connect With Us: https://linktr.ee/dicetower Dice Tower Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/thedicetower As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. BGG Link: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/352596/ancient-realm #dicetower #thedicetower

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Ancient Realm

Ancient Realm

2023·Steven Aramini

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14
Creators
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Mainly reviews. Ancient Realm is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 9 reviews, 3 how-to-play guides, 1 recorded sessions, and 1 unboxings.

1 players
15 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting

About Ancient Realm, from BoardGameGeek:

Starting from humble beginnings, you must lead your civilization to greatness. Harvest, hire, build, and plan your way into the history books! At its heart, Ancient Realm is a civilization-building-themed puzzle game in which you try to maximize your points by deciding which blocks to keep and which to build over, while carefully managing your resources. Balance endgame scoring goal needs with immediate tactical needs to create a mighty civilization replete with wonders of the world. Each turn, you have four available cards to place. Some of them will be districts, the basic building blocks of civilization, while others will be wonders, powerful but costly constructions. Wonder cards feature one block and a wonder; wonders are worth a large number of points and offer potent effects, but require significant resources to construct and cannot be covered by further cards. On a turn, you pick one of these cards and place it in your realm. Cards can be placed next to, overlapping, or entirely covering one or more cards in your realm. When a block (or multiple blocks) is covered by a new card, those blocks can be activated to gain their effect. Mines fill your coffers with valuable gold; with gold, you can activate production sites and citizens. Citizens come in two types and might affect other cards, such as the value of certain wonders. On the back of each district card is an event that impacts the growth of your civilization, and the event on the top of the district deck is active for the round. At the end of the game, score your wonders and mines as well as any remaining gold and resources to determine how your civilization stacks up.

Designer

Steven Aramini

Artist

Startraphell Talbot

Publisher

Button Shy

Categories

Card GameCivilization

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Tile PlacementSolo / Solitaire Game
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