Extend The Legacy Of Capitalism In New Machi Koro Spin-Off
August 7, 2018 by ludicryan
It may be time to revisit your favourite Japanese town builder because it's getting a legacy spin-off in 2019!
Released in 2012 and a Spiele des Jahres nominee in 2015, Machi Koro is the fun, accessible, capitalism-simulator that Monopoly never was! Like that latter monstrosity, each turn in Machi Koro starts with the rolling of one or two die, but the mechanical similarities stop there.
The result of the die roll activates all properties that any player may own with that number. This leads to a round of taking money and - if you're unlucky - owing it to other players. Each turn, players construct an ecosystem of primary, secondary and tertiary industries that keep that cycle of money going in hopefully one direction.
Machi Koro finds the balance between manageable RNG, strategy and making sure that its players are never too far from the lead. And so it is genuinely interesting to see how a legacy system is built around this game.
The spinoff combines Pandemic Legacy designer Rob Daviau with JR Honeycutt who reinvented Fireball Island, and the original designer of Machi Koro: Masao Suganuma. How a legacy game can be built around the competitive mechanics and capitalist theme of Machi Koro are being kept under wraps for now.
But each campaign is intended to span across ten matches with no individual player falling out of contention. A story will also span the campaign and the project has the involvement of the creator of the Tokyo NOVA RPG series Nobuaki Takerube.
And do not fret! Nobura Hotta will be returning to deliver us more of that <ahem> hotta artwork!
Who else is excited to extend their existence in this long long night of late capitalism?
"Machi Koro finds the balance between manageable RNG, strategy and making sure that its players are never too far from the lead"
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Never played this it’s could be a great alternate to monopoly.
High praise indeed 🙂
Yaaaassssss! I mean, I think almost any board game is a good alternative to Monopoly. But Machi Koro is accessible enough for kids and has great strategic depth for adults!
I’m kinda tired of the whole “legacy” thing.