Let’s play aggressive constructing sport Tokyo Freeway

For those who may design your individual freeway system — nicely, it wouldn’t look something like what you get from Tokyo Freeway.

This tabletop sport, loosely primarily based on Japan’s precise privatized expressways, asks gamers to construct their very own roads from sticks and pylons. For a contemporary board sport, Tokyo Freeway appears gorgeously minimalist, even bordering on easy, however the gameplay is surprisingly tense.

Moderately than prizing effectivity, the sport awards you factors for crossing an opponent’s highways. The result’s a fantastic, tangled mess of precarious roads all attempting to cross each other. And be careful: This sport is component-limited, and in the event you knock over an opponent’s roads, you need to rebuild it and repay them with your individual equal constructing supplies. There’s even a pair of tweezers for significantly difficult constructions.

We performed Tokyo Freeway on the newest episode of Overboard, our month-to-month tabletop present. With shaking palms and hopeful hearts, our four-player mega-city got here to life.

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Tokyo Freeway

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A two- to four-player street building board sport the place gamers construct winding, precarious roads whereas fastidiously avoiding knocking over their opponents’ items.