Yokohama (2016)
(2016)Cranio Creations, OKAZU Brand, 2Tomatoes, Synapses Games, dlp games, Tasty Minstrel Games
In Yokohama, each player is a merchant in the Meiji period trying to gain fame from a successful business by building stores, trading, and managing resources across a modular board representing the city's locations.
The Verdict
based on 10 reviews
Yokohama is praised as a deep, dynamic worker placement and card-driven strategy game that brilliantly rewards multiple paths to victory, careful planning, and adaptability in Meiji-era Japan.
The reviewers praise Yokohama as a cohesive, highly replayable Eurogame that blends multiple scoring paths smoothly, though they note potential pacing slowdowns at the very end.
This middle-weight worker placement eurogame offers a deeply satisfying, sprawling puzzle as players build influence in Meiji-era Japan. The 2024 edition boasts gorgeous components and clever organization, making it a must-play experience for fans ready for a step up in complexity from Wingspan.
Yokohama is a contract-fulfillment game featuring a clever worker-placement and movement mechanism where players strategically manage workers to generate resources and execute powerful turns.
The reviewer praises Yokohama for its clever movement mechanics, deep strategy, and high replayability, though they note that it features an overwhelming learning curve and unremarkable art.
Yokohama offers a refreshing twist on worker placement, using assistants to build a logistical network rather than directly taking actions. The reviewer praises its striking components, engaging modular board, and deep strategic choices.
Yokohama is an excellent, highly replayable Eurogame featuring clever movement mechanics and a satisfying engine-building puzzle, though players should be prepared for fiddly setup, a thin theme, and a potential 'point salad' scoring system.
The reviewers share their positive experiences playing Yokohama, highlighting how much third-party token and resource upgrades enhanced their enjoyment of the game.
Yokohama is a polished and highly engaging Euro-style pickup-and-deliver game that offers wonderful strategic freedom and multiple pathways to victory despite minor thematic superficiality and potential downtime.
Yokohama remains a tight, surprisingly mean Eurogame with unique worker placement and player interaction, though its competitive bite and building mechanics make it a tougher sell in today's crowded market.
Similar games
Similar theme
More by Hisashi Hayashi
Lists to explore
View all lists & features
Top 50Best worker placement board games
Claim the best spots before anyone else: the top-rated worker placement games.
Top 25Best 2 player-only board games
Find out which games to play with your loved ones, siblings, friends, kids or parents.
Top 25The 25 best card games
Their components fits nicely in the palm of hands yet the possibilities are endless.
RankedJamey Stegmaier board games, ranked
From Wingspan to Scythe — see how Jamey Stegmaier's games stack up.







