Board Game Geek Avg Player Rating: 10.00
Players: 2 to 5
Published: 2018
Content Notes: Kickstarter Deluxe Edition of Streets Board Game by Sinister Fish Games. Includes Deluxe Edition base game, Kickstarter Promo Pack, and all unlocked stretch goals. Please note: unless otherwise stated paid add ons from the Kickstarter Campaign are not included.

The city, 🌆, was once a small and insignificant town, but the affordable properties have attracted artists, startup companies and families. Celebrities and influencers are moving in, and after some recent archeological findings, a new tourist industry is blooming. Street by street, the new people are transforming the city into a centre of commerce and culture.

Designed and illustrated by Haakon Hoel Gaarder (Villagers), Streets is an easy to learn tile laying game for 1-5 players where you build new streets in a growing city. Through careful planning and placement, the aim is to make the most money from selling your buildings.

The city is populated by increasing numbers of people (wooden meeples), each with their own preferences. These hipsters, tourists, shoppers, and parents increase the value of any buildings they occupy, and they move from street to street as they are scored. You’ll need to locate your buildings carefully and attract the right crowd to earn more than your opponents!

You can download the draft rules here. The final rules will look much nicer!

Streets is really easy to teach! If one person knows the rules, you can open the box and be playing in less than 5 minutes. Here’s the basics:

1. On your turn, place a building into the city.

Add meeples according to the colour and number of icons at the bottom of the tile you played. You’ll also add an Ownership Token in your player colour.

2. When a Street is Enclosed, all buildings in it are sold for money.

Calculate how much each building is worth based on the Valuation in the top right corner, adding $1 for every meeple.

3. Meeples move to new buildings.

The player who enclosed the street moves the meeples on it to new buildings of matching colours on unenclosed streets. Meeples who can’t move stand up and get FOMO (fear of missing out), and they’ll move immediately to matching buildings when new ones are built.

4. Earn the most money to win!

There are lots of opportunities to create scoring combos, and to profit from other players’ buildings. The number of meeples in play increases as the game goes on, raising the stakes and the tension! Though the game is suitable for new gamers, these dynamic mechanics create a lot of depth that seasoned gamers will enjoy.

 The Business expansion makes use of the icons on the top left of every building tile. Each building has one or more Home, Shop, Restaurant, Recreation, or Wild icon on it.  

Whenever a street is scored, every player with a building in that street gets to take a business token matching the icon on one of their buildings. At the end of the game there’s a $10 bonus for the player with the most tokens of each type, and $10 for every set of all four tokens.  

A simple addition to the game, but a big change to the way you’ll play! Included in every copy of the game are seven Consultant cards (70x120mm tarot size) which give each player a really powerful and unique special ability. Deal one Consultant card out at random to each player during setup and you’re good to go! 

Both of the expansions are optional, and we recommend playing without either of them the first time you play, or if you’re playing with a group that prefers simpler games. The expansions add extra crunch to the decisions you’ll make as you play!

Streets can be played by one player versus an AI opponent called The Grifter, using a simple set of rules and no extra components. You can find more information on this in the draft rulebook.

We’ve taken great care to ensure that Streets offers excellent value for money right out of the box, and we’ve come up with a number of cosmetic and usability upgrades to both editions of the game that we can include even at the minimum funding goal. Rather than throw everything at you at once, we’ll reveal these additions as the campaign goes on. Since we’ve already budgeted for them, they won’t be tied to the overall funding level, but we will make you work for them 😀

The more copies of the game we order from the factory, the cheaper they become. We can use those savings to add some cool new content for backers at no extra charge. The more backers who join us, the more extras we can include for everyone.

In short, more backers means more free stuff for everyone! The free promo pack is our way of saying thankyou to backers for supporting this campaign. After the campaign it will only be available direct from Sinister Fish Games at an appropriate price plus shipping.*

* The deluxe edition and promo pack will be available in limited numbers from retailers who back this campaign, but it will not go into general distribution, and there will be no restocks.

There are two versions of Streets; standard and deluxe. They both contain exactly the same gameplay content, but the deluxe edition has some upgraded components.

You play as investors creating attractive new streets in the growing city, investing in buildings and turning them into viable businesses and valuable homes. Some streets will become hotspots for hipsters, others will be dominated by tourists or families with children. Others still will become designated shopping areas. Where will your Microbrewery profit the most? What is the best location for a Toy Store? What kind of environments are the other investors creating, and can you exploit their work for your own profit?

As each street is completed, the crowds will move to the next hotspot, hopefully one of your properties in an up and coming street. Can you compete with the hype of your rivals and grow your following over time? To gain the most riches you must manage your limited investment funds cleverly, planning ahead while also keeping your mind open to fresh opportunities. To help you in this process are some expert consultants, like the Contractor helping you build faster, the Influencer attracting people to your businesses and the Realtor speeding up sales. The investor who has profited the most from the development of the city is the winner of the game.

Streets is a tile-drafting and -laying game where you build a city one building at a time. The city is populated by hipsters, families, shoppers and tourists, each with their own preferences and needs. Cleverly locate your businesses and attract the right people to profit more than your opponents. Buildings provide these people both as permanent symbols and as meeples that will move from street to street as they are scored. Help your opponents score by closing off their streets, while profiting more yourself as you move the crowds to your own buildings. An optional advanced module adds Consultants that offer powerful asymmetric player abilities.

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