Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Easier to teach
High replayability
Low interaction
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Arrange an artist’s daily routine, build a deck of habits, jobs, muses, and encounters, endure hardship, and turn inspiration into lasting masterpieces.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Deck / Bag Building
Add new pieces during play to improve the cards, tokens, or dice drawn later.
Pattern Building
Place elements to create arrangements that satisfy scoring or action patterns.
Cooperative Game
Players coordinate their actions toward a shared objective and win or lose together.
Solo / Solitaire Game
Provide rules and objectives designed for a single player.
Read the full game description
Bohemians follows struggling artists through the streets and cafés of fin-de-siècle Paris. Each round asks players to arrange cards into a daily routine whose adjacent symbols and timing create the resources, inspiration, and opportunities needed to make art. New habits, social encounters, jobs, and muses enter the deck, but practical obligations and hardship cards make an efficient life difficult to sustain. Pattern building gives the deck-builder its distinctive rhythm: it is not enough to acquire a strong card, because it must appear in a sequence that tells a coherent day and triggers the right combinations. Completing masterpieces supplies the clearest path to recognition, while achievements reward a particular artistic life and shared events shape the table’s tempo. A dedicated solo mode preserves the same planning puzzle, and the multiplayer game adds competition for cards, achievements, and the best route through a romantic but unforgiving creative career.
