Asmodee will release the English language version of Queen Games’ new game Queen’s Architect, designed by Volker Schachtele, in Q3.

In Queen’s Architect, the players are travelling builders, moving around the realm with a band of craftsmen to build villages, monasteries, and towns in exchange for gold coins.  The goal of each architect is to land the prestigious contract of building the new royal palace.

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Each player has an “action star” board, with spaces for six different craftsmen which can have different skills based on their guild.  The craftsmen tiles show different levels of work quality, which changes each time the craftsman contributes to a project, sometimes improving and sometimes getting worse.  Players must manage the skills and qualities of their craftsmen and replace them as they leave the team in order to earn the queen’s appreciation.

Queen’s Architect will include a game board, 28 target tiles, 50 coins, 12 figures, 4 wagons, 32 building markers, 4 action stars, 54 craftsmen, 40 borrower’s notes, and other game tokens and tiles.  The game is for 2 - 4 players, ages 10 and up, and plays in about an hour.  MSRP is $50.00.