Subtopia

Can you bring the homeowner's dream of suburban paradise? Subtopia is a competitive tile placement game where you gentrify the land, creating a chaotic town of sprawling suburbs. Play as landlord town developers that dream of creating a homogenous suburban paradise. Players flip, rotate and move double sided hand-drawn tiles, one with rural living space, and the other side with cookie-cutter homogenous suburbia. The flipping of a tile gentrifies the land from old living space to new suburban living space. Add new tiles onto the board by connecting the divided tiles together through their shared road networks, and create open lanes for exploration. Your goal is to get rich and score the highest! Gather points by connecting roads around tiles with your coin token. Once a player unlocks all their coins, the final turn is triggered before points are counted. Turn the suburbs you own into hilariously giant carparks and shopping malls. Road networks are vital for building communities and spreading the suburbs, but in Subtopia, a competitive land of individual success, players have to find their own advantages on a chaotic board. Building a homogenous suburban paradise is impossible, just as you will realise the difficulty fitting the tiles together perfectly during gameplay. Home ownership and individual success are widespread beliefs in living the dream. However, in our interconnected world for the majority of humans, what really makes the dream work? —description from the designer