Path of Civilization
- Designer: Fabien Gridel
- Publisher: Captain Games
- Players: 1-5
- Age: 14+
- Time: 20 min/player
- Played with review copy provided by publisher
Take the reins of your Civilization and make the choices that will make it the most prosperous. It doesn’t matter which path you take, as long as it leads your people to glory. Research new technologies to improve your nation’s Science, Military strength, Spirituality, Culture and Industrialization. Grow the greatest Philosophical current of humanity. Use your Philosophers to become one of its forerunners and thus decide its evolution. Send your Builders to create wonders from your territory that will outlive everything, even men. Grow your Population so that the most illustrious Leaders are born from it and change the world forever, even after their death. Develop your Military Legacy so that the name of your civilization is enough to make your opponents tremble. And if that is not enough, send your army to defeat even the most distant External Threat. Use your Sages and the knowledge of your civilization to solve the great Challenges of humanity that will mark its history.
In Path of Civilization, from the very first second of the game you must make choices that will have repercussions until the end of the game. The game is played simultaneously and works with a simple card and resource management system. The diversity of its cards guarantees enormous variability.
Opinionated Gamers First Takes on SPIEL 2023 Games (Part 3 of 4)
While we normally contribute more to full reviews, in the heady weeks just after SPIEL, everyone is playing as many games as possible – and frankly, spending more time playing games than writing! Our writers have been contributing to a document where they give anonymous small reports on the new games that they’re playing.
These blurbs are meant to be anonymous; in part because given the rapid nature of these things, many of the games may have only been played once; and all comments below should be read with that important caveat.  Players will have changing reactions to games after multiple plays, and it certainly wouldn’t be fair to a game to write a review based on such small experience.
Of course, there is also benefit to see what some other gamers have thought about the games that they have already tried – and thus, we stick to this anonymous format of small first takes. We will try to do a final one before the end of the year.
This year, we’ll try to organize the games in alphabetical order:
For part 1 of the recap, click here
For Part 2 of the recap, click here
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