Underwater Cities Review - with Tom Vasel

Tom Vasel takes a look at this strategy heavy city-building game from designer Vladimír Suchý!

00:00 - Introduction
01:28 - Game overview
09:46 - Final thoughts

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[ArmadilloAl]

"It's very in-depth"

Well, yeah, a game about underwater series BETTER be in depth.

[patrickrochel]

So cool to see these older reviews from Tom. Tom, trust me your opinions, good bad or indifferent carry much more weight when contrasted with the rest of the crew you have now. Chris, Camilla, Wendy etc…it’s so cool to see more sides of a review. Keep it up!!!!

[Ras]

Love ya Tom, but does Siegfried and/or Roy know you raided their wardrobe?

[EternalSushiMusic]

I think it's pretty high up there for me! It's similar to Terraforming Mars when it comes to my personal rating. Might even be less complex than TM by a small bit.

[BlazblueFan]

I dig the theme of this game and gameplay seems quite deep.

[Hunszi]

I heard that the game has one major problem, because there is one strategy that wins the game all the time. It`s called Kelp strategy, when you build double 2nd level farms in every connected city and getting VP all the time at the end of the round. Reaching around 120+ points every game, especially if you build 5 double farms in total. Any opinions on this?

[Syncopator]

Love the theme and it looks interesting, but the length is a killer for my group.

[brettmartin]

Definitely my favorite board game. It has some similarities to Terraforming Mars, but much more versatility and considerations in decision making. The game is very balanced. It's great at 2 or 3 players. There's a good amount of player interaction through worker placement, fighting for turn order, and securing your end game scoring cards, but not in a mean way. The only potential downside is the complexity (which i enjoy), as it can be too much for many people.

[willyum]

I suspected the component quality would be subpar with their very first print. I wasn't aware that Rio was going to get involved. Probably a good thing.

[Crs]

Wow, someone managed to make even worse player boards than what Terraforming Mars has.
Those stacked discs are just going to be sliding off all the time.

[FranzBinder]

Can't concentrate on final thoughts. The vest reflections are blinding me.

[ziomalZparafii]

Hearing Tom's pronunciation of Suchy took me a few seconds to get it's the name of the designer read in English.

[TheRicekreem]

Tom is rocking a totally fly vest in this one.

[benjaminnadeau]

Perhaps if you separated the tokens, you wouldn't complain they are a jumbled mess

[GameCrawler]

"Still a lot of depth to be discovered in this game, no pun intended. Alot of fun, underwater Cities - I highly recommend it"

[xugreatone]

What is this Underwater Cities you speak of? Clearly, this is a game called Sunken Cities.

[stevegeorge]

It Appears there is a significant unbalanced fault in the rules with kelps strategy being to unbalanced against other ways to victory.

[grisuderspielteufel]

Yes!!! I love Underwater Cities. My Spiel ‘18 highlight!!!

[dubiouslycrisp]

There is a lot of symbolism on the cards, not symbology. The cards aren't studying symbols, only people do.

[arcubal]

"crunchy eurogames"? "lots of options"?.... sounds like a designer I would not care to play the games of...