Point City
Point City is a card-drafting and tableau-building game for one to four players in which each participant assembles a personal city from double-sided cards[^c1]. It was designed by Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin, and Shawn Stankewich, illustrated and graphically designed by Dylan Mangini, and published by Flatout Games and Alderac Entertainment Group in 2023[^c2].
Each turn a player drafts two adjacent cards from a shared four-by-four market or draws two from the top of the deck. Resource cards are spent to construct buildings; constructed buildings provide permanent resources, printed victory points, or access to civic scoring tokens. The game runs for seventeen turns per player and ends when the deck can no longer refill the market, at which point printed building points and civic-token bonuses are totalled.
The design's distinctive features are its double-sided cards, which flip the market between resource and building faces as players draft, and its tiered deck, which opens with cheap single-resource cards and escalates to costlier, more powerful buildings[^c4]. A permanent-production engine compounds across the game, making early investment valuable and late investment risky. Civic tokens add a second scoring layer that rewards players for shaping their production to the specific conditions revealed at setup.
For genre, weight, series placement, reception, and digital-release details, see [[point-city]].