Suburbia and Suburbia, Inc.

We have both Suburbia and its first expansion, Suburbia, Inc.  We love this game and think it plays really well two player.  I just love the feel of building my own little city.  I used to love Sim City, but my issue was I wanted to build for a few hours...and be done. Be complete. And that wasn't the point...you had to keep growing, doing, etc.  I found that annoying.  This is like the best of that...I get to make my perfect little work...then I'm done!

 

The expansion for this is a no-brainer...just more tiles which is always useful.  They just released a new one, called 5 star, but after watching this review, I am not convinced we'll buy.  I want new tiles....but we will never do five player and the whole star thing just seems like a ton of work. 

Castles of Mad King Ludwig

So I was SUPER excited about this game - Castles of Mad King Ludwig.  It is made by the same people who did Suburbia, which I love.  As in ADORE.  So I really wanted this, which was similar but you are building a castle.  And it was COOL! And look...our "finished" castles!  I did want it to go a little longer....so I could build a larger castle! 

 

We played this two player, which was okay, but it would be better with more since you take turns as a "master builder," and setting the prices.  Suburbia is a great two player game, but this really isn't. IT was fun and I think it will even better with 3 or 4 so the master builder function works better.