51st State: Ultimate Edition BGG ↗

51st State: Ultimate Edition · English edition · (2023)

Your rating: 8.0

My BGG Comment

Everything Zee promised. Loving the solo mode. Not sure I want to play this much multiplayer. Very good "everything" edition, well organized and good consolidated rulebook. Need to play more of the expansions.

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After hearing Zee Garcia go on about this for a good while on so many different Top10/0s... I went for the Ultimate Edition crowdfunding campaign. I played this immediately when I received it... 5 times and enjoyed it but for some weird reason haven't touched it since. It might be that against my expectations the dark theming loses out against nature themed and more shiny SF settings? Possibly, the ruleset feels like it might have bad retention and so I hesitate to go back to it with so many games available to me where I just know all the rules. Ranking last year: - (new entry)

BGG Game Details

Year	2023
Designers	Ignacy Trzewiczek
Artists	Mateusz Bielski, M81 Studio, Grzegorz Bobrowski, Piotr Foksowicz
Publishers	Portal Games
Players	1–4
Time	75 min
Status	Owned
BGG Rating	8.0
Categories	Economic, Card Game, City Building, Science Fiction
Mechanics	Hand Management, Take That, Open Drafting, Variable Player Powers, Multi-Use Cards, Worker Placement
Complexity	2.74 / 5
Language	Moderate in-game text - needs crib sheet or paste ups

Extended Game Annotations

Setup/Teardown	M
Insert type	PLASTIC
Insert usefulness	3 / 5
Production quality	3 / 5

Segmentation	KEEPER
My category	City Building
My mechanic	Multi-Use Cards
My Genre	Workers Unite
Theme	Cyberpunk
Theme expression	LIGHT
Luck factor	MODERATE

Teachability	3.0 / 5
Length of teach	M
Best at	2 players
Play at	1,2 players
Crowdfunded	yes

Play History

Date	Location	Duration	Qty	Players	Scores	Winner
2025-01-17 Details Variant Winter	At home	45 min	1	Bot 🤖, Yashima (Hegemonie)	32.00, –
2025-01-15 Details Variant Winter	At home	43 min	1	Bot 🤖, Yashima (Die Universität)	25.00, 44.00	44.00
2025-01-14 Details Variant Winter	At home	44 min	1	Bot 🤖, Yashima (New York)	27.00, 37.00	37.00
2023-02-25 Details Variant Winter	At home	–	1	Yashima (Hegemonie)	58.00	58.00
2023-02-13 Details Variant Winter	At home	–	1	Yashima (Uranopolis)	61.00	61.00
2023-02-12 Details Variant Winter	At home	–	1	Yashima (Die Universität)	72.00	72.00
2023-02-11 Details Variant New Era	At home	–	1	Yashima (Appalachische Föderation)	75.00	75.00
2023-02-10 Details Variant New Era	At home	–	1	Yashima (Mutanten Union)	54.00	54.00
2023-02-10	At home	–	1	Yashima (Händlergilde)	51.00	51.00