Walking in Burano is a tableau building game where you are constructing colorful houses on the streets of Burano, trying to attract tourists. Houses are built out of cards you draw from a community draw grid and you can take 1, 2 or 3 cards at a time, earning 2, 1 or 0 coins respectively. Building costs you different amounts based on how many sections you build in a turn. When you complete all three sections of a house, you get to select a visitor to place at the bottom of that house. Each visitor earns different points based on different features of the house or street. The artwork is pretty and you’re collecting things like cats, plants, awnings, streetlights and even chimneys for Santa. Once one person completes 5 houses, the game ends.
Review:
I’ve played multiple times now and I really WANT to like it. There’s nothing wrong with the game. I just don’t find myself really enjoying the process of playing. My husband said the same thing. It is fine. We would play again if someone wanted to, but probably wouldn't chose it.
One minor part we don’t like is that at the end of the game when you're just a card away from finishing your five houses, we kind of just burn through turns trying to get the final piece we need. It's kind of an annoying drag to the game and ends up relying on a little luck to be the first person to get the color card you need.
We don’t really have any other tableau building games that work in quite the same way and since I'm not opposed to playing again sometime, we'll probably keep the game for now. If I find something of a similar mechanic that we enjoy the gameplay of better, this game will be replaced.
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