Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Easier to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Draft primate tiles, grow a hex-grid city, and spend money to influence the most valuable districts before rival silverbacks seize control.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Area Majority
Compete to have the strongest presence in areas that award control or points.
Tile Placement
Place tiles to build a shared or personal spatial arrangement.
Open Drafting
Select cards or items from a shared face-up display.
Increase Value of Unchosen Resources
Use Increase Value of Unchosen Resources as a recurring structure for player decisions and resolution.
Hexagon Grid
Use a hexagonal map where each space connects evenly in six directions.
Read the full game description
Ape Town is a Reiner Knizia tile-placement game about rival primate gangs competing for the best districts in a growing city. Players draft or buy tiles, extend the shared hex map, and place transparent influence discs where new neighborhoods create immediate and future value. Every placement changes the worth of nearby territory, so timing a quick payout must be weighed against investing in long-term majority control. Money is both a resource and a source of leverage in the race to become the dominant silverback.
