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?
Run a Tudor London sanitation company, moving waste through cramped streets at night and building influence by day.
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.
Deck / Bag Building
Add new pieces during play to improve the cards, tokens, or dice drawn later.
Pick-up and Deliver
Use Pick-up and Deliver as a recurring structure for player decisions and resolution.
Area Movement
Move pieces between connected regions rather than along individual spaces.
Income
Receive recurring resources according to your position, assets, or development.
Read the full game description
Night Soil turns an unglamorous piece of Tudor London history into a sharp economic strategy game. Players manage rival sanitation companies, using Labourer cards at night to move waste cubes through narrow streets, earn money, and recruit more workers. By day those workers advertise, court local businesses, and improve company assets—while their presence also adds to the city’s growing problem. A shared movement system, guild tracks, deck development, and money that doubles as victory points create constant trade-offs between efficiency, influence, and helping an opponent by accident.
