Doomtown: Weird West Edition
BGG Geek Rating
5.6
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BGG Average Rating
8.8
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BGG Ranking
#10453
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Players
1-6
Weight
3.86/5.00
Playtime
60 min
Age
12+
⚙️ Game Mechanics
How this game works - core systems and player actions
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🎨 Artists
Grzegorz Bobrowski
Javier Araujo
Garem
William O'Connor
Jim Pavelec
Drew Tucker
Kamila Szutenberg
David Su
Charles Urbach
M. Wayne Miller
Miguel Coronado
Marcel Stobinski
Allan Pollack
Teejay Ralph Villahermosa
Pete Venters
Ron Spencer
Aaron J. Riley
Anthony Grabski
German Ponce
Von Caberte
Brittany Pezzillo
Gabriel Blain
Brent Chumley
Marjorie Davis
Mario Wibisono
Biagio D'Alessandro
Donald Crank
Andrew Gaia
Cristian Chihaia
Ed Cox
Ambrose H. Hoilman
Quintin Gleim
Charles Keegan
Sabrina Pugnale
Char Reed
Gareth Keenan
James Starr-King
Larry Wilson
Robin Wouters
Mark Poole
Delfino Falciani
John Morrow
Friedrich A. Haas
Riccardo Rullo
Cristina McAllister
Brian Caleffi
Christopher Wilson
David Hammond
David Robert Hovey
Dan Frazier
Edward Fetterman
Stephen Najarian
Vlad Ricean
Carmen Sinek
Lucas Svedberg
Bryon Wackwitz
Drew Baker
David Hueso
Cheyenne Wright
Lance Ridenoure
Matthew Sweeney
Daniel Jiménez Villalba
Bryan Sevilla
Jonathan Moore
Michele Frigo
Inna Vjuzhanina
Jose Vega
Charles Dougherty
Monztre
Mirco Paganessi
Sam Wood
Mark Behm
Abrar Ajmal
Álvaro Calvo Escudero
Paolo Parente
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📖 About This Game
Welcome to Doomtown, where you try to gain control of a western town set in the Weird West of Deadlands. In this world, cowpokes good and bad wield guns, steampunk gadgets, and spells of all sorts, and death is sometimes just a minor inconvenience.
In Deadwood, South Dakota, Eagle woman That All Look At tries to enforce a fragile treaty. Hao-Te Zui's Anarchists fight for the townsfolk that E.B Farnum's consortium of Entrepreneurs are trying to drive out of business. Bass Reeves, the West's most persistent Marshal, arrives in pursuit of the notorious outlaw, Jessica Patchett, who's trying to escape her bloody past. And out in the Badlands, Ursula's cult prepares to summon the power of the great Worm.
Doomtown: Weird West Edition is a poker-driven, territory control card game, updated from (and fully compatible with) the 2014 release of Doomtown: Reloaded, which was based on the 1998 Origins Awards Best Trading Card Game, Deadlands: Doomtown by Alderac Entertainment Group!
All aspects of the game that require randomization are controlled via a poker mechanism as every card has a suit and value. Preparing for the hands you want to draw is as much a part of deck building as choosing the actions and dudes you'll want to play. Your deck is built around an Outfit, one of the six main groups attempting to control Deadwood.
Combat is resolved via poker hands. Deciding who goes first is decided by drawing the top five cards from your deck and the lowest poker hands go first.
Players take one action each, in turn which can include:
Hiring a new dude (getting you influence in town)
Purchasing a new deed (getting you control in town)
Shopping for gear for your dudes
Start a shootout with your opponents to try to remove their influence.
When each player passes, you reach "Sundown" for the day. If any player has more control in town than anyone else has influence, you win.
-description from publisher