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
Player-count sensitive
Light strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Unfold a city-sized cooperative adventure book, solve visual mysteries, place permanent stickers, and let one discovery lead to the next.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Narrative Choices
Choose between story options that lead to different passages and consequences.
Cooperative Game
Players coordinate their actions toward a shared objective and win or lose together.
Deduction
Combine clues and exclusions to identify hidden information.
Legacy Game
Choices permanently change components, rules, or future sessions.
Solo / Solitaire Game
Provide rules and objectives designed for a single player.
Read the full game description
Miasto Tańczącego Karpia—The City of the Dancing Carp—is a cooperative book-game by Aleksandra and Daniel Mizieliński. Its enormous illustrated city is explored through observation, deduction, small challenges, and narrative choices rather than a conventional board. Players follow clues across spreads, compare details, and add stickers that permanently record discoveries, so the object gradually becomes a unique map of their journey. Sessions can be brief or stretch across many hours, and any number of people can gather around the book, though a small group will find the fine visual detail easier to share. The experience is currently published commercially in Polish and several other languages, but not English; ABG therefore recommends the authentic Polish edition instead of inventing an unavailable translation.
