Village (board game)

Village is a German-style board game for two to four players designed by the husband-and-wife team of Inka and Markus Brand and first released in 2011 by Eggertspiele. Set across generations in a medieval village, the game combines worker placement with a resource-management twist in which characters eventually die of old age, and a player's standing partly depends on how well the deceased are remembered in the village chronicle rather than only on wealth accumulated while alive. The design won two of the hobby's most prominent German prizes in 2012, the Deutscher Spiele Preis and the more strategy-focused Kennerspiel des Jahres, recognition that helped the title reach a wider international audience. A later expansion, Village: Inn, added rules allowing a fifth player to join a game originally built for four.