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Nippon

Japan during the Meiji period - a closed, isolated, and feudal country - decides to change into a modern westernized state. The Empire sends emissaries to foreign nations, brings technicians... (read more)
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Reviews
mostly positive, 70% of all reviews are favorable
Playtime
60 minutes
Published
2016
Age
12+
Publisher
What's Your Game
Players
2 to 4 players
Designers
Nuno Bizarro Sentieiro and Paulo Soledade
Playstyle
Involved
Game's Categories
Strategy Game, Industry / Manufacturing, Economic, Industrial Revolution, Ghenos Games, and Area Majority / Influence
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Description

Japan during the Meiji period - a closed, isolated, and feudal country - decides to change into a modern westernized state. The Empire sends emissaries to foreign nations, brings technicians and scholars from the west, builds a network of railroads, and achieves an outstandingly fast industrial revolution.

In Nippon, players control Zaibatsu and try to develop their web of power by investing in new industries, improving their technological knowledge, shipping goods to foreign countries or using them to satisfy local needs, and growing their influence and power as they oversee the era of rapid industrialization of Japan.

The foundations of the big Zaibatsu were the traditional silk workshops, but soon the conglomerates diversified their influence and power, building a complex structure of interconnected companies that made them giant players in the world's new industrial era. Each player takes the reins of one of these big corporations and tries to develop it in order to grow and achieve power.

Nippon is a fast-paced economic game with challenging decisions, set during an important time in Japanese history, and when a new great nation is born.

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Game's Categories

Genre

  • Strategy Game

Themes

  • Economic
  • Industry / Manufacturing
  • Industrial Revolution

Mechanics

  • Variable Phase Order
  • Area Majority / Influence

Publishers

  • Asmodee
  • Ghenos Games
  • hobbity.eu
  • What's Your Game

Designers

  • Nuno Bizarro Sentieiro
  • Paulo Soledade

Artist

  • Mariano Iannelli

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