Namma Bengaluru (2021)

For many decades, Bangalore was the Garden City of India, but now it sports a different avatar. With the rise in IT companies all over the city, Bangalore became popular as the Silicon City of India, sometimes also referred to as the start-up capital of India. Ask a local about the Bangalore they remember, and you will be taken on a walk down memory lane of an era gone by: Sprawling green parks filled with trees, beautiful lakes, bustling markets and shopping centers contrast the buzzing business and industrial areas against the solace of cosy residential areas.

Namma Bengaluru — or "Our Bengaluru" as translated from the native language Kannada (which is pronounced "Kun" like in "gun" and "nada" like "na-da") — is a game inspired by the publisher's hometown of Bangalore, India.

In the game, you plan and build neighborhoods in the city of Bengaluru. To start, you have a hand of two tiles (with tiles coming in five types) and a neighborhood card that shows a way to score points. On a turn, you either play a tile into the city, matching tile types or roads to do so; swap the tiles in hand for two new ones; draw a neighborhood card; or remove a neighborhood card in hand to place a tile on top of an existing tile. When no tiles remain in the draw pile, each player takes a final turn, then reveals their neighborhood cards, scoring for each pattern of tiles in the city that matches what's shown on their card; some cards provide bonus points based on your ability to place tiles of the right type next to scoring patterns you have.

Whoever scores the most points wins, with ties being broken in favor of whoever holds fewer cards.