Engine Building

Players construct an interconnected system of abilities and resources that grows more powerful and efficient over time.

5 games found

Trò chơi có cơ chế này

Ark Nova

2021

8,54
1-4 người chơi 90-150 min 3,79/5

Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion

2020

8,37
1-4 người chơi 30-120 min 3,64/5

Gaia Project

2017

8,35
1-4 người chơi 60-150 min 4,40/5

Wingspan

2019

8,00
1-5 người chơi 40-70 min 2,48/5

Everdell

2018

7,99
1-4 người chơi 40-80 min 2,83/5

Câu hỏi thường gặp

Engine building is a mechanism where players construct a system of interconnected components (cards, abilities, resources) that generate increasingly powerful effects over time. Early turns focus on building the engine; later turns produce large returns. The satisfaction of watching your engine accelerate is a major draw.
Tableau building focuses on placing cards in front of you to create a display. Engine building is specifically about creating combos and chains that produce compounding benefits. Most engine builders use a tableau, but not all tableau games have engine-building aspects. Wingspan is both; Ticket to Ride has a tableau but no engine.
Great engine building games include Terraforming Mars (building a production engine on Mars), Wingspan (bird-themed card engine), Gaia Project (space civilization engine), Splendor (gem-trading engine for purchasing power), and Race for the Galaxy (card-driven space empire engine).