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Doomtown: Weird West Edition (2023)

Players

1–6

Best: 2

Playing time

30–60 min

Age

12+

8.59

Average rating

Ratings

3.86/5

Weight

#10449

BGG rank

Outside top 5,000

Designer:Dave Williams (II), Mark Wootton, Richard Carter

Artist:Jonathan Moore, Paolo Parente, Drew Tucker, Ron Spencer, Dan Frazier, Brent Chumley, Cheyenne Wright, Anthony Grabski, Drew Baker, Pete Venters, William O'Connor, Abrar Ajmal, Cristina McAllister, Jim Pavelec, Mark Poole, Sam Wood, Ed Cox, Bryon Wackwitz, Friedrich A. Haas, Allan Pollack, M. Wayne Miller, Edward Fetterman, Charles Urbach, Charles Dougherty, German Ponce, Mark Behm, Charles Keegan, John Morrow, David Hammond, Delfino Falciani, Char Reed, Garem, Mario Wibisono, Biagio D'Alessandro, Bryan Sevilla, Aaron J. Riley, David Robert Hovey, Ambrose H. Hoilman, David Hueso, James Starr-King, Cristian Chihaia, Matthew Sweeney, Donald Crank, Carmen Sinek, Jose Vega, Grzegorz Bobrowski, Ramon Puasa, Jr., Marjorie Davis, Riccardo Rullo, Miguel Coronado, Mirco Paganessi, Inna Vjuzhanina, Michele Frigo, Stephen Najarian, Andrew Gaia, Álvaro Calvo Escudero, Daniel Jiménez Villalba, Monztre, Von Caberte, Sabrina Pugnale, Quintin Gleim, Brian Caleffi, Brittany Pezzillo, David Su, Gabriel Blain, Larry Wilson, Lance Ridenoure, Lucas Svedberg, Marcel Stobinski, Vlad Ricean, Teejay Ralph Villahermosa, Robin Wouters, Christopher Wilson, Kamila Szutenberg, Gareth Keenan, Javier Araujo

Publisher:Pine Box Entertainment

Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).

Game DNA

Strategy5.0

Luck5.0

Interaction7.0

Complexity7.7

Theme7.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

Card GameFantasyHorrorCity BuildingAmerican WestBetting and BluffingVariable Player PowersHand ManagementArea Majority / Influence

Overview

Welcome to Doomtown, where you try to gain control of a western town set in the Weird West of Deadlands. In this world, cowpokes good and bad wield guns, steampunk gadgets, and spells of all sorts, and death is sometimes just a minor inconvenience.

In Deadwood, South Dakota, Eagle woman That All Look At tries to enforce a fragile treaty. Hao-Te Zui's Anarchists fight for the townsfolk that E.B Farnum's consortium of Entrepreneurs are trying to drive out of business. Bass Reeves, the West's most persistent Marshal, arrives in pursuit of the notorious outlaw, Jessica Patchett, who's trying to escape her bloody past. And out in the Badlands, Ursula's cult prepares to summon the power of the great Worm.

Doomtown: Weird West Edition is a poker-driven, territory control card game, updated from (and fully compatible with) the 2014 release of Doomtown: Reloaded, which was based on the 1998 Origins Awards Best Trading Card Game, Deadlands: Doomtown by Alderac Entertainment Group!

All aspects of the game that require randomization are controlled via a poker mechanism as every card has a suit and value. Preparing for the hands you want to draw is as much a part of deck building as choosing the actions and dudes you'll want to play. Your deck is built around an Outfit, one of the six main groups attempting to control Deadwood.

Combat is resolved via poker hands. Deciding who goes first is decided by drawing the top five cards from your deck and the lowest poker hands go first.

Players take one action each, in turn which can include:

Hiring a new dude (getting you influence in town) Purchasing a new deed (getting you control in town) Shopping for gear for your dudes Start a shootout with your opponents to try to remove their influence.

When each player passes, you reach "Sundown" for the day. If any player has more control in town than anyone else has influence, you win.

-description from publisher