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Baghdad front cover
Close-up of the board
Prototype copy of Baghdad @ SPIEL'24
Teach from Essen'24
Baghdad
Game setup on table from Essen
The rondel of the gameboard
Box render
Components

Baghdad: The City of Peace (2025)

Players
1–4
Best: 4
Playing time
90–120 min
Age
14+
7.69
Average rating
512
Ratings
3.29/5
Weight
#4076
BGG rank
Top 5,000
Alternate names:Baghdad: The City of Peace – Collector's Edition +1 more
Designer:Nestore Mangone, Fabio Lopiano
Artist:Roland MacDonald
Publisher:Alley Cat Games
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 7, Luck 4, Interaction 2, Complexity 6.6, Theme 5
Strategy7.0
Luck4.0
Interaction2.0
Complexity6.6
Theme5.0

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

City BuildingMedievalArabianHand ManagementWorker PlacementRondelSolo / Solitaire Game

Overview

Set during Baghdad's Golden Age, players take on the role of Viziers, looking to build their family's prestige and grow the great City of Peace.

Move your Vizier around the circular city, collecting scientific equipment, teaching students, and translating works.

Each turn, play a card, pushing another card out of your tableau and triggering its ability. Build up sets of icons to pull of more difficult actions and plan ahead to complete upcoming objectives. Work together to build the Golden Palace, Fill the House of Wisdom, and send ships down the Tigris.

Baghdad: The City of Peace is programmed hand management game featuring a mega rondel. Points are scored for Night Characters, Artefacts, Favour, and Shame tokens. The player with the highest total score wins, becoming the most eminent courtier in the great City of Peace.

A retail version of this game was cancelled and only the Deluxe edition was printed thus all copies include the Golden Age Expansions.

—description from the publisher

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