Orléans (2014)

The reviewer enthusiastically recommends Orléans, highlighting its straightforward rules, innovative bag-building mechanics, thematic artwork, and strategic depth, stating it's quickly becoming one of their all-time favorite games.

Tom Vasel found Orléans to be an amazing bag-building game with strong and clean mechanisms that provided immense fun, even if the theme was largely irrelevant to his enjoyment.

Rahdo expresses immense love for "Orléans," highlighting its fantastic bag-building mechanism and the strategic depth created by resource scarcity. He particularly praises its 'bonkers crazy amazing' two-player experience when playing with specific setup modifications.

The reviewers found Orléans to be a highly satisfying and very good game, praising its well-implemented bag-building and worker placement mechanics, and noting its excellent scalability and replayability, with one reviewer calling it a personal favorite.

Tom Vasel praised Orléans as a mechanically strong and highly replayable bag-building game, offering diverse paths to victory and an enjoyable engine-building experience, despite a less prominent theme. He enthusiastically recommends it, believing it deserved to win the Kennerspiel des Jahres.

The reviewer highly praises Orléans, considering it one of his favorite games and consistently on his top 100 list, appreciating its core gameplay. While he enjoys the Trade and Intrigue expansion, he notes that the Plague expansion makes the game much more challenging and points out minor production inconsistencies with the thinner corpse tokens.

Tom Vasel found 'Orléans' to be an amazing and highly enjoyable bag-building game, praising its deep and varied mechanics that allow for diverse strategies and significant player improvement over time, despite considering the theme largely irrelevant.

Orleans is really good. If you are interested in it at all you should stop reading and go buy it.

Dad and his game group express overwhelmingly positive feedback for Orléans, highlighting their love for the gameplay and absence of any negative points.

The reviewer highly recommends Orléans, noting its unique bag-building mechanic sets it apart from other Euros. He finds the game engaging and interactive, appreciating that it plays quickly once players are familiar with the rules.

Orléans and Orléans: Trade & Intrigue combine the best features of deckbuilding/poolbuilding, resource management, worker placement, and long-game strategies into one beautifully designed game.

I love Orleans. The game is hugely satisfying. It’s one of my favourite games of all time.