Players play as well-off Parisians in the 14th century seeking to improve the importance and appearance of the city quarter around the famous Notre Dame Cathedral. It is a challenging strategy and card drafting game where players manage resources, build their economy, and deal with the ever-present threat of the plague.
The Verdict
based on 20 reviews
“Overall, I give Notre Dame a 9.5/10. I love this game. It is easily one of my surprise favorite games, and has quickly jumped up to be one of my favorite "euro-style" games, on the same level as games like Puerto Rico.”
“It's very simple to teach, it's very smooth, it's very intuitive, it's very fast, it's very thematic for a failed game, and we just enjoy it so so much. We don't play it near enough; we should really get it out more often.”(0:56)
“I really enjoyed her name solid game for stefan feld that has stayed in my collection for quite some time and i really just want to play it”
“Absolutely it is a fantastic one and I really really like not read on the 10th anniversary edition as I said the new persons are really really good”(3:05)
“If you are the type of gamer that can look past that stuff and you can look past, you know, the shine and the glitter and just look at the core design of a game and appreciate it for what it is, then you should consider getting Notre Dame. Really good game. I give it an overall grade of A.”(21:17)
“I'm going to give this one an 8 out of 10, which is pretty strong, and honestly that 8 out of 10 might not even make my top 10 whenever we do this, but it's not that I don't really like this game. I really like this game.”(1:00:42)
“It's very streamlined and the choices you having to make each round they're quick but they're interesting it feels like a classic seven Bell you're kind of castles of Bergen the era of game I think so I really enjoyed it I'd be on an eight out of ten”(5:09)
“This is what we recommend. We love Stephane Feld and this is no different. It's one of his earlier games and it is on the lighter side, I think I would say, but it scales really well.”(8:34)
“Notre Dame is a light to medium Euro game which is a very good intro to Euros for newbies. The game gives you a lot of different actions to choose from but it manages to cleverly avoid the brain”(1:20)
“Notre Dame is one of those overlooked games, and it deserves some attention. The production quality is admittedly low compared to most newer games (the old Alea version that I have certainly is), but it takes a few minutes to setup and put away. Track a copy down.”
“Notre Dame is fun and interesting. It has that familiar Alea charm. Drafting cards make for great, tactical decision-making. Balancing your losses with the plague meter is a cool mechanism.”
“It's not a really really deep game but the level of strategy that you get for a shorter uh stefen Feld title it's only like an hour maybe an hour and 15 minutes long is very good so um this is probably one of my favorite older felds”(11:02)
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