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In It’s a Wonderful World, you are an expanding Empire and must choose your path to your future. You must develop faster and better than your competitors. You’ll carefully plan your expansion to develop your production power and rule over this new world. It’s a Wonderful World is a cards drafting and engine building game from 1 to 5 players. Each round, players will draft 7 cards and then choose which ones will be recycled to immediately acquire Resources, and which ones will be kept for construction to produce Resources each round and/or gain victory points. When a card is fully built, it’s added to the player’s Empire to increase the player’s production capacity for each round. The mechanical twist being that the production phase works in a specific order. You'll have to plan your constructions carefully! For a deeper insight of the gameplay, please follow this link : It's a Wonderful World - First steps In addition to the base game, players can also enjoy expansions boxes introducing an innovative Campaign mode. Each Campaign offers a storyline to follow and many gameplay twists. At the end of each campaign, players will open a reward booster to unlock new cards, enhance their base game and keep a memory of what happened during the campaign. All the campaigns can be replayed and don’t imply game components destruction. More info on the Campaign mode : It's a Wonderful World - Campaign Mode —description from the publisher
| Year | 2020 |
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| Designers | Frédéric Guérard |
| Artists | Anthony Wolff |
| Publishers | Lucky Duck Games, Reflexshop, Tranjis Games, Galápagos Jogos, Lautapelit.fi, MEBO Games, TLAMA games, FoxGames, Origames, Studio Supernova, Fantasmagoria, Engames, One Moment Games, MTS Games, Kilogames, Geronimo Games, Blackrock Games, Evrikus, Kobold Spieleverlag, La Boîte de Jeu |
| Players | 1–5 |
| Time | 45 min |
| Status | Previously owned |
| BGG Rating | 7.6 |
| Categories | Economic, Civilization, Card Game, Science Fiction |
| Mechanics | Hand Management, Simultaneous Action Selection, Set Collection, Income, Variable Player Powers, End Game Bonuses, Solo / Solitaire Game, Closed Drafting |
| BGG Rank | 186 |
| Complexity | 2.33 / 5 |
| Language | No necessary in-game text |
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2026-02-24 | Board Game Arena | – | 1 | Yashima | 17.00 | 17.00 |
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2024-01-31 | Board Game Arena | – | 1 | Yashima | 45.00 | 45.00 |
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2023-11-22 | Board Game Arena | – | 1 | Yashima | 37.00 | 37.00 |
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2023-11-16 | Board Game Arena | – | 1 | Yashima | 20.00 | 20.00 |
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2023-07-20 | Board Game Arena | – | 1 | Yashima | 60.00 | 60.00 |
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2023-07-20 | Board Game Arena | – | 1 | Yashima | 30.00 | 30.00 |
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2023-07-12 | Board Game Arena | – | 1 | Yashima | 70.00 | 70.00 |
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2023-07-12 | Board Game Arena | – | 1 | Yashima | 39.00 | 39.00 |
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2023-07-09 | Board Game Arena | – | 1 | Yashima | 56.00 | 56.00 |
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2023-07-09 | Board Game Arena | – | 1 | Yashima | 34.00 | 34.00 |
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2023-07-09 | Board Game Arena | – | 1 | Yashima | 20.00 | 20.00 |
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2023-07-08 | Board Game Arena | – | 1 | Yashima | 42.00 | 42.00 |
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2021-07-11 | At home | – | 1 | Yashima | 78.00 | 78.00 |
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2021-07-11 | At home | – | 1 | Yashima | 86.00 | 86.00 |
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2021-07-11 | At home | – | 1 | Yashima | 36.00 | 36.00 |
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2021-05-26
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At home | – | 1 | Yashima | 42.00 | 42.00 |
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2021-05-25
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At home | – | 1 | Yashima | 103.00 | 103.00 |
My BGG Comment
Drafting cards and engine building. If this sounds a bit like 7 Wonders to you, that's how I was sold the game. This is a bit more streamlined especially with the resources are produced by cards and there is a resource hierarchy you need to follow or fail. I enjoy it but the base game alone seems less variable than 7 Wonders. There is an interesting solo mode included.