Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Recruit eccentric animal citizens, strengthen their actions in layered stacks, and follow rivals to build the brightest city.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Open Drafting
Select cards or items from a shared face-up display.
Follow
Choose whether to perform a reduced version of another player’s selected action.
Melding and Splaying
Combine cards into sets and spread them to expose additional icons or effects.
Increase Value of Unchosen Resources
Use Increase Value of Unchosen Resources as a recurring structure for player decisions and resolution.
Layering
Place components over earlier pieces so their order and overlap affect play.
Solo / Solitaire Game
Provide rules and objectives designed for a single player.
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Citizens of the Spark is a variable-setup card game about transforming a frontier settlement into the prophesied city of Fera. On a turn, players attract a group of citizen cards from the shared assembly, collecting any spark tokens that have accumulated beside it. Matching citizens layer into increasingly powerful stacks; activating one can generate resources, manipulate cities, attack a rival, or score, and opponents with the same citizen may follow the action by discarding a copy. Only a subset of the thirty citizen types appears each game, so the economy, interaction, and scoring texture changes dramatically from one setup to the next. A dedicated automa, Scyntilla, supports solo play without flattening the tactical timing that makes the multiplayer game lively.
