NEOM is a tile drafting, tile laying, and resource management game where players act as city planners and mayors building the neomodern city of their dreams. Players must carefully plan roads, manage resources, and develop a near-future metropolis across multiple eras.
The Verdict
based on 13 reviews
“Neon is fantastic, it well deserves, I think, I ultimately made into my number 4 spot of 2018, and that same something goes 2018 is a really great game with a lot of phenomenal stuff, and neon is one of them.”(5:27)
NEOM continues to be a pleasant surprise for me. It offers a challenging experience that doesn’t overstay its welcome, and every city has its own little personality!
NEOM is a modern city-building game that combines simultaneous design and tile placement, inspired by games like 7 Wonders, Carcassonne, and Sim City.
“I've been very impressed with neon and everyone that I have introduced introduced this to has enjoyed it I think more than I think everyone has been pleasantly surprised”
“I highly highly recommend Neom as a great kind of a either a tile laying game or a city builder, or if you are like me and remember SimCity 2000, Neom is very similar to the board game version of it.”(10:50)
“My only negative is there's a lot of symbology so it's going to take a while to figure out what everything means and I don't like those disaster Tils but other than that this kind of really hits my sweet spot”(12:40)
“I found a lot to like with NEOM. I love a good city-building game, and the fact that it reminded me of SimCity didn’t hurt at all.”
The reviewers consider NEOM a solid and well-designed city-building tile-placement game that successfully combines drafting mechanics, though some note minor frustrations with interactive disaster elements.
“So yeah i i recommend neon uh age of empire night sorry i've been playing age of empires 4 recently it's on my brain”(1:31:04)
“I enjoy the gameplay. The tension of not knowing what tiles you are going to have to choose from and trying to decide to whether to keep something or hope for something better continues to be interesting to me in every replay, in part because you always have different objectives.”
“In closing, I find NEOM to be of a standard with other city building games that I’ve played, but with little to differentiate it over and above them.”
“There's a little bit more going on in the game and I like how the tiles work together.”
“Neem just didn't pull me in like I played it the first time I was like I got to play it more to see if I'm missing anything I played it more and it didn't really change the experience for me”(10:19)
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