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City of the Great Machine

Hidden revolutionaries outwit an all-seeing steampunk AI across a shifting floating city.

2023
Area control Cooperative Cooperative Coordination Sci-Fi Solo Solo mode Tactical Team-Based

Taste snapshot

You may like this if you enjoy…

  • Short-horizon optimization and clever combos
  • Two teams pulling against each other
  • Coordinating moves with teammates
  • Far-future and space setting

You may not like this if…

  • You prefer light, fast-paced games

City of the Great Machine is a 2023 board game for 1 to 4 players, ages 14 and up. A typical game runs 60 to 90 minutes and plays at medium-heavy complexity. It was designed by German Tikhomirov and published by CrowD Games.

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A Victorian steampunk city is ruled by an AI known as the Great Machine, while the other side plays revolutionaries trying to spark unrest and stop its master plan. It supports one-vs-many play as well as solo and cooperative modes with an automated Machine opponent, and its modular floating-district city changes from game to game. Hidden movement and asymmetric goals are the core of the experience, with heroes secretly planning moves while the Machine tries to predict and intercept them.

Designed by

1

German Tikhomirov

Artwork by

3

Maya Kurkhuli, Nadezhda Penkrat, Nikolai Mitrukhin