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product_id: 230578973
title: "My City | Family – Friendly | Legacy Board Game | Kosmos Games | 2 to 4 Players | Ages 10 and Up | Award Winning Designer Reiner Knizia , Blue"
brand: "thames & kosmos"
price: "VT22267"
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reviews_count: 8
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# 30 min quick sessions city-building legacy gameplay 24 evolving episodes My City | Family – Friendly | Legacy Board Game | Kosmos Games | 2 to 4 Players | Ages 10 and Up | Award Winning Designer Reiner Knizia , Blue

**Brand:** thames & kosmos
**Price:** VT22267
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🏙️ Build your legacy, one city at a time — don’t miss out on the game that grows with you!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** My City | Family – Friendly | Legacy Board Game | Kosmos Games | 2 to 4 Players | Ages 10 and Up | Award Winning Designer Reiner Knizia , Blue by thames & kosmos
- **How much does it cost?** VT22267 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/230578973-my-city-family-friendly-legacy-board-game-kosmos-games-2)

## Best For

- thames & kosmos enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted thames & kosmos brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Designed by a Game Master:** Created by Reiner Knizia, a Spiel des Jahres-winning designer, ensuring smart, engaging play every time.
- • **Family-Friendly & Fast-Paced:** Perfect 30-minute sessions that fit into busy schedules without sacrificing depth or fun.
- • **Legacy Gameplay That Evolves:** Experience 24 unique episodes where your choices permanently shape your city and strategy.
- • **Strategic Depth with Every Play:** Constantly adapt your tactics as the game evolves, keeping every session fresh and competitive.
- • **Replayability Meets Personalization:** Flip the board for a non-legacy mode that lets you enjoy endless city-building challenges.

## Overview

Thames & Kosmos My City is a legacy-style board game for 2-4 players aged 10+, featuring 24 episodes of evolving city-building gameplay designed by award-winning Reiner Knizia. With quick 30-minute sessions, it offers a unique blend of strategic depth and family-friendly fun, where your in-game decisions permanently impact future plays. Includes a double-sided board for replayability beyond the legacy experience.

## Description

My City is a unique, family-oriented legacy gaming experience that is played in relatively short episodes. The game consists of 24 different episodes beginning with the development of a city in its early preindustrial stages and progressing through industrialization. During each game, players customize their experience by adding elements to their own boards. Players’ choices and actions made during one session of gameplay carry over into the next session, creating a personalized gaming experience. For players who do not want to experience My City as a legacy game, a double-sided game board offers an alternate setup for repeatable play.

Review: Fun - Fun. I love learning the rules through each chapter of the legacy game play. My family looks forward to our weekly routine. The best part is that once we've finished learning all the rules through the legacy game play we can continue to play.
Review: Great game with learning throughout - Like most legacy games, this has the obvious disadvantage of the learning process built into the game. Even if you get crafty and don't modify the playing pieces "permanently" as directed, you'll still have the KNOWLEDGE of what comes next the next time you play the game, if you try to play the legacy version a second time. So you might say, well, this is an expensive game that you only get to play 24 times! Um yeah, some people play their games more than 24 times. But it turns out that is pretty rare. And should you wan to play more, there is a perpetual version included, too, that you can return to again and again. But really, the legacy functionality is what puts this game over the time. Think you got it all figured out? Well, the foundation of what matters and how you play is going to change a little (or a lot) between each play of the game. So you gotta be on your toes, ready to learn and incorporate a little something new each time, and enjoy the learning as you go process. This has a few cool features: You don't need to learn the whole game at once. You just need to learn the rules for the basic game at first, and then you need to learn or unlearn one or two pieces of the rules each game thereafter. You never get bored with the game playing the same or the same player using the same strategy every time because it plays differently each time and the strategy that worked best the last time may not work best or even at all the next time. -- And what about the game play itself? It is smart. Like lots of other games from this designer, sometimes it feels so abstracted from the source (city building in this case) that it is a puzzle and optimization game and not just thematic. But not in a bad way. It is FUN and the theme works well, and players that don't care about the theme can treat it as a very smart abstract game if they want.

## Features

- Unique family-oriented gaming experience with simple rules and short playing time
- Shape your city from settlement to industrialization
- A competitive Legacy Game where a player's choices made during one game carry over into the next game
- Play through 24 different episodes, or flip the game board over for a replayable experience
- Developed by world-renowned game designer Reiner Knizia, winner of a Spiel des Jahres

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B08626RMSL |
| Are Batteries Required | No |
| Best Sellers Rank | #55,312 in Toys & Games ( See Top 100 in Toys & Games ) #1,540 in Board Games (Toys & Games) |
| Brand Name | Thames & Kosmos |
| CPSIA Cautionary Statement | No Warning Applicable |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 664 Reviews |
| Edition | Standard Edition |
| Estimated Playing Time | 30 Minutes |
| Genre | Family |
| Global Trade Identification Number | 00814743015043 |
| Included Components | 4 player boards, 96 tiles, 4 scoring markers, 24 cards and 8 envelopes with pieces to unlock. |
| Is Assembly Required | No |
| Item Height | 11.6 inches |
| Item Type Name | Legacy Style Board Game |
| Item Weight | 1500 Grams |
| Language | English |
| Manufacturer | Thames & Kosmos |
| Manufacturer Maximum Age (MONTHS) | 1188.0 |
| Manufacturer Minimum Age (MONTHS) | 120.0 |
| Manufacturer Warranty Description | 1 Year Warranty Against Manufacturer Defects |
| Material Type | Paper |
| Number of Items | 1 |
| Number of Players | 2 to 4 |
| Theme | Shape |
| UPC | 814743015043 |
| Unit Count | 1 Count |

## Images

![My City | Family – Friendly | Legacy Board Game | Kosmos Games | 2 to 4 Players | Ages 10 and Up | Award Winning Designer Reiner Knizia , Blue - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81-DpmwPyVL.jpg)

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fun
*by M***I on November 19, 2025*

Fun. I love learning the rules through each chapter of the legacy game play. My family looks forward to our weekly routine. The best part is that once we've finished learning all the rules through the legacy game play we can continue to play.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great game with learning throughout
*by S***S on January 22, 2022*

Like most legacy games, this has the obvious disadvantage of the learning process built into the game. Even if you get crafty and don't modify the playing pieces "permanently" as directed, you'll still have the KNOWLEDGE of what comes next the next time you play the game, if you try to play the legacy version a second time. So you might say, well, this is an expensive game that you only get to play 24 times! Um yeah, some people play their games more than 24 times. But it turns out that is pretty rare. And should you wan to play more, there is a perpetual version included, too, that you can return to again and again. But really, the legacy functionality is what puts this game over the time. Think you got it all figured out? Well, the foundation of what matters and how you play is going to change a little (or a lot) between each play of the game. So you gotta be on your toes, ready to learn and incorporate a little something new each time, and enjoy the learning as you go process. This has a few cool features: You don't need to learn the whole game at once. You just need to learn the rules for the basic game at first, and then you need to learn or unlearn one or two pieces of the rules each game thereafter. You never get bored with the game playing the same or the same player using the same strategy every time because it plays differently each time and the strategy that worked best the last time may not work best or even at all the next time. -- And what about the game play itself? It is smart. Like lots of other games from this designer, sometimes it feels so abstracted from the source (city building in this case) that it is a puzzle and optimization game and not just thematic. But not in a bad way. It is FUN and the theme works well, and players that don't care about the theme can treat it as a very smart abstract game if they want.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tetris meets Dr Mario
*by A***R on February 18, 2021*

I bought this game because I thought it would be like a Sim City version of Agricola. Then I read the instructions and was intimidated by the 90 minute game play time. It doesn't really take 90 minutes, especially in the beginning and for the "eternal" game play. Here is the game play without giving away any spoilers (I hope). The game is on a grid pattern with tetris shaped buildings. The object is to place all the buildings on the grid in a pattern that leaves the least amount of "green space". This is the "Tetris" part. There are color groups along with shapes, so there are bonus points for grouping the colors together. This is the "Dr. Mario" part. Along with this there are "chapters" and "episodes" - each episode adds a new challenge that builds on top of previous challenges, meeting these challenges gives additional bonus points above the colored buildings and the least open green spaces. Each episode takes 15 to 20 minutes, this is mostly due to the length of time you allow the players to place the buildings. So it could be fast or long depending on how strategic everyone is and how long it takes people to be strategic. The best part is this game is designed to be played over 8 or so chapters and at the end of each episode the winner is given 2 tokens and the 2nd place a single token. What about the 3rd and 4th? well - they are given stickers to place on their board that may provide additional points in later game play. For example - you lose points for open "green space" so in some cases the 3rd and 4th may be given stickers the cover the green space so they have less chances to leave them open. In another example, some challenges provide 3 points, the 3rd and 4th were given a sticker that enabled them to get 5 points for meeting the same challenge in later episodes. This has the effect of not allowing a single person to run away with all the points on every episode, which keeps it challenging even if you are an adult playing with teens and pre-teens. I would totally recommend the game as it takes about 5 minutes to learn the mechanics and is an easy 20 minute game for whenever, like Blokus.

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