Citadels (2000)

A nostalgic look back at Citadels, highlighting how personal history and changing perspectives over time led to a revised rating for this classic card game.

The 2016 revised edition of Citadels successfully refreshes the classic role-selection and city-building game with gorgeous tarot-sized cards, quality components, and streamlined rules that enhance the tense psychological interaction.

Board Game Halv considers 'Citadels' a classic secret role and economic strategy game, highlighting its blend of hidden roles, character abilities, and resource management to build a kingdom, serving as a strong example within its genre.

This video provides a complete overview and final thoughts on the 2016 edition of Citadels, highlighting its classic role-selection mechanics alongside updated components and new content.

Board to Death TV delivers a straightforward review of the classic role-selection card game Citadels, detailing its mechanics, pacing, and interactive elements.

Citadels remains a brilliant, fast-paced game of drafting, bluffing, and hidden roles that heavily influenced modern social deduction and card games. Even after a quarter-century, its elegant mechanics and tense character interactions make it a timeless essential for any collection.

Gameosity highlights the refreshed art, updated rules, and expanded role variety of the classic card-drafting game, confirming it remains a timeless tabletop favorite.

The reviewer finds Citadels to be a fun and exciting game, particularly enjoying the strategic choices involved in selecting characters each round and deciding on a turn's strategy.

Citadels remains an exceptional social game for larger groups, enhanced by the big box edition's expanded role options and customizability, though it suffers from some downtime at maximum player counts.

This retrospective review examines Citadels, weighing its classic role-selection mechanics and social deduction elements against modern game design to see if it holds up.

This quick overview highlights the classic card-drafting and bluffing mechanisms of Citadels, explaining how players choose secret roles each round to build medieval districts while trying to outwit opponents.

This review outlines Citadels' card-drafting mechanics, role selection, and strategic bluffing. The hosts highlight its engaging player interaction and scalability while noting occasional downtime with larger groups.