Bloom Town (2019)

About this game

Springtime has finally arrived! Bloom Town is reawakening after the long winter and you must help revitalize the neighborhood. As an architect, players must construct a mixture of offices, subways, parks, homes, and shops to attract tourists and potential new residents. Whoever assembles the most exciting town will be elected as mayor! Each round, players will assign buildings on their personal town board and immediately score bloom points for tiles just placed. Skillfully place tiles in arrangements that maximize your scoring and rescoring of bloom points! At the end of each turn, players will redraw tiles from the Town Square Board that match the symbol just build upon. When a certain number of building piles are depleted, that triggers game end scoring. Don’t get caught without constructing a bustling town! Do you have what it takes to bring life back to Bloom Town? —description from the publisher

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Works with 2 to 4.
• Rules load. At 1.8/5 this is a light game — explain it in a few minutes, good for a table that has not played much.
• Age. The publisher suggests 8 and up. That rates the rules rather than the artwork, so judge the box yourself for younger players.