Century: A New World is the third and final installment in the Century series, designed by Emerson Matsuuchi. It sends players to the Americas at the dawn of the 16th century, utilizing worker placement and resource conversion mechanisms. Players compete to acquire resources and purchase cards for victory points.
The Verdict
based on 7 reviews
The video is a dedicated review of "Century: A New World," the third installment in the Century series. It focuses on the physical worker placement board game, which can be played standalone or combined with other games in the series.
Tom Vasel highly recommends 'Century: A New World,' calling it an excellent game and the best in the Century series for its pure gameplay, particularly enjoying its worker placement and resource management elements.
The reviewer praises Century: A New World as a great worker placement game, appreciating its unique twists like reclaiming occupied spaces and quick gameplay. While gameplay is strong and strategic, minor complaints include the thin component quality and tiny meeples.
The reviewer highly praises 'Century: A New World' for its added complexity, accessible worker placement, and engine-building elements, making it a competitive and engaging experience within the trilogy. It's considered a must-have for series fans, standing alongside 'Spice Road' as a top choice.
The Broken Meeple reviews 'Century: A New World,' discussing its standalone worker placement and resource trading gameplay, as well as its integration with previous Century titles. The reviewer offers opinions on the game's various play configurations.
The reviewer found 'Century: A New World' to be overly complex and frustrating, particularly due to its worker placement mechanics and lack of ownership, making it their least favorite in the series compared to the more elegant previous titles.
The reviewer finds Century: A New World, and the entire series, unoriginal and uninteresting. He considers the Century Big Box a 'blatant cash-grab' with derivative design and advises strongly against playing it, giving it an 'Awful' rating (1.0/5).
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