Starting Down The River to SPIEL '18 with Days of Wonder

In The River, you and the other mayoral players each struggle to create the best pioneer settlement by developing land along a river bed in your town, collecting resources from the area, and constructing buildings. As you explore and build up the untouched frontier, your workers will settle down along the way, meaning that your other workers will shoulder more of the burden to do what you want to do, which includes making nicely organized landscapes to please the aestheticians in town.

Every decision counts in this fast and streamlined tile-placement game, and in the end the player with the most impressive settlement will win!

"Ismaël's starting idea was a worker-placement mechanic in which you have fewer and fewer workers as the game progresses. Then I brought the river into the project, and the two elements instantly clicked, leading rather smoothly to tile placement," explains Sébastien Pauchon, co-designer of the game with Ismaël Perrin. "We are quite happy with the result: a very accessible and fast-paced worker-placement game for players of any level, yet with enough decision-making to make each turn suspenseful and interesting."