Suburbia

Suburbia is a city-building tile-laying board game designed by Ted Alspach and published in 2012 by Bézier Games. The company released an app in 2013, and a game called Subdivision in 2014, as part of the Suburbia family of games. In 2015, it released the expansion set Suburbia 5 Star. In 2019, a Kickstarter campaign established to develop Suburbia Collector's Edition raised $1.8 million. An expansion called Nightlife was released for the collector's edition of the game and the app, but is incompatible with the base version. Suburbia was the basis for the design of the 2014 board game Castles of Mad King Ludwig. Gameplay All players start with a Borough Board, adjacent to which are arranged three hex tiles (one Suburbs, one Community Park, and one Heavy Factory), $15 in coins, and three investment markers. Each player adds a population marker to the population board. Once the game setup is complete, each player chooses a personal objective from two random draws. All players must also achieve a set of public objectives, the number of which is based on the number of players. Upon achieving a personal or public goal, the player receives a population bonus.