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Life as a night soil worker can be tough!
I don't even want to know what's in those buckets...
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Night Soil

Night Soil (2025)

Players
2–5
Best: 4
Playing time
60–90 min
Age
14+
6.88
Average rating
422
Ratings
3.15/5
Weight
#6380
BGG rank
Outside top 5,000
Designer:Jon Moffat
Artist:Jesse Gillespie
Publisher:Grail Games +1 more
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 5, Luck 5, Interaction 7, Complexity 6.3, Theme 5
Strategy5.0
Luck5.0
Interaction7.0
Complexity6.3
Theme5.0

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

RenaissancePick-up and DeliverVariable Player PowersArea MovementArea Majority / InfluenceDeck, Bag, and Pool BuildingTurn Order: Claim ActionVictory Points as a ResourceIncome

Overview

Night Soil is a very mature game about sanitation in Tudor London.

As the exemplar of cultural progress in Europe, Tudor London (1485-1603) is at the spear’s edge of cultural and technological development. However, as modern plumbing is still generations away, the city is gradually filling up with human waste, making it a terribly fragrant place to live.

In the game, players run competing night soil companies. By night, laborer cards will be used to carefully maneuver waste cubes through the narrow streets of London to turn a profit and to recruit workers. By day, these workers can be sent out into London to advertise, to garner favor with local businesses, or to improve their company's assets. However, crowds of workers do tend to add to the waste problem.

At the end of the game, the player who has managed to make the most money wins!

—description from the designer

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Night Soil: Coronation Day
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