Village: Big Box

Life in the village is hard, but at the same time it allows residents to develop and prosper according to their own ideas. One villager may want to become a monk. Another may feel ambitious and strive for a career in public administration. A third may want to seek happiness in distant lands.

In the game Village , each player takes on the leadership of a family and tries to help them find glory and fame in many different ways. However, one thing you must not forget: Time stops for no one and when time runs out, people disappear. Those who are immortalized in the village chronicle will bring honor to their family and be one step closer to victory.

Each turn, you take a cube from an area on the game board and then perform the action of that area. The game board has zones with specific attributes, a market, a travel zone, a craft zone, a church, and a council house, and each zone is planted with cubes of four colors and also black cubes, which serve as curses. Many of these areas offer multiple actions, so if you take a cube from the craft area, for example, you can get a bull, a horse, a cart, a plow, or a scroll, or you can turn wheat into gold. Some areas offer short-term scoring, others long-term scoring, and some only offer scoring at the end of the game. The round ends when there are no cubes left in any area. The game ends when either the village chronicle is full or the anonymous graveyard is full.

Village: Big Box includes the base game Village, the expansions Inn and Port, all previously released promotional materials, and the new expansion "Marriage", with all materials being mutually integrable and the game now including a solo mode and reworked gameplay, two-layer player boards, and a larger, double-sided main board that eliminates the need for overlays used in the original expansions.