Blue Moon City

Blue Moon City is a 2006 designer board game by Reiner Knizia. The game has similar artwork to, and some thematic connections with, the Blue Moon card game, also designed by Knizia.[1] It is a city-building game with a heavy fantasy theme.[2]

Blue Moon City
The box cover of Blue Moon City
DesignersReiner Knizia
PublishersFantasy Flight Games (U.S.)
Κάισσα (Greece)
Players2 to 4
Age range10 and up

Publication history

Shannon Appelcline explained that in the early 2000s, "Fantasy Flight's eurogame production started to slow as the company increasingly developed its own voice. Top games like Reiner Knizias' Blue Moon City (2006) and Beowulf: The Movie Board Game (2007) — the latter a redevelopment of an older FFG title — appeared, but they were a dwindling part of FFG's board game production."[3]

Reception
Players during a 2009 local meetup

Mikko Saari from Lautapeliopas praised the game's elegance and engagement. He stated that the game was "not very far from popular card-based war games in terms of basic mechanics".[4] It also won the 2006 Meeples' Choice Award, and was ranked 4th Place in the 2006 Deutscher Spiele Preis. It was also nominated for the 2006 Spiel des Jahres awards.[5]

References
  1. Applecline, Shannon (23 February 2006). "Anatomy of a Game: Blue Moon". Mechanics and Meeples. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
  2. Wallis, James (2023). Everybody Wins: Four Decades of the Greatest Board Games Ever Made. Simon and Schuster. p. 71. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  3. Appelcline, Shannon (2014). Designers & Dragons: The 90s. Evil Hat Productions. p. 304. ISBN 978-1-61317-084-7.
  4. "Blue Moon City -lautapelin arvostelu ＞ Lautapeliopas". Lautapeliopas (in Finnish). 2009-03-21. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
  5. sdj-admin. "Blue Moon City". Spiel des Jahres (in German). Retrieved 2022-07-20.


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