A Game by Tim Puls
Game type: Worker placement, city building, resource management

The Colonists is a strategy and development game on an epic scale that you can adapt to your personal taste. The game takes place over several years and multiple eras, as players try to grow their settlement into the largest and most valuable in all the land.

Players must recruit workers, find jobs for them, educate them and eventually move them into more advanced professions as the Eras march on. Farmers will become citizens and from there can progress and become wealthy merchants. Find the right path for your colony to grow and prosper through the Eras and earn the Emperor’s favor!


 

In The Colonists, a.k.a. Die Kolonisten, each player is a mayor of a village and must develop their environment to gain room for new farmers, craftsmen, and citizens. The main goal of the game is full employment, so players must create new jobs, educate the people, and build new houses to increase their population. But resources are limited, and their storage leads to problems that players must deal with, while also not forgetting to upgrade their buildings. Players select actions by moving their mayor on a central board.

The Colonists is designed in different levels and scenarios, and even includes something akin to a tutorial, with the playing time varying between 30 minutes (for beginners) and 180 minutes (experts).
 

COMPONENTS
62 Places tiles
202 Building tiles
72 Embassy tiles
8 Warehouse extension tiles
36 Storage Facilities tiles
4 Market tiles
4 Basic Storage Upgrade tiles
1 Starting Player tile
16 Steward tokens (in 4 different colors)
120 Colonist meeples
55 Dollar tokens (various denominations)
40 Tool tokens
440 Resource tokens (brick, coal, robes, wood, clay, ore, planks, iron, food)
140 Improvement cards
28 Market cards
4 Balance cards


Rahdo Runs Through  -  The Colonists