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Baghdad: The City of Peace
2025
Rules assistance for Baghdad: The City of Peace
Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.
- 1–4 players
- 90–120 min
- 14+
- Complexity 3.3/5
For 1 player
Rules assistant for Baghdad: The City of Peace
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Baghdad: The City of Peace is a board game released in 2025 for 1–4 players, 90–120 minutes per game, and ages 14 and up. It was designed by Fabio Lopiano and Nestore Mangone and its main mechanics are Hand Management, Solo / Solitaire Game, and Worker Placement.
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About the game
Set during Baghdad's Golden Age, players take on the role of Viziers, looking to build their family's prestige and grow the great City of Peace. Move your Vizier around the circular city, collecting scientific equipment, teaching students, and translating works. Each turn, play a card, pushing another card out of your tableau and triggering its ability. Build up sets of icons to pull of more difficult actions and plan ahead to complete upcoming objectives. Work together to build the Golden Palace, Fill the House of Wisdom, and send ships down the Tigris. Baghdad: The City of Peace is programmed hand management game featuring a mega rondel. Points are scored for Night Characters, Artefacts, Favour, and Shame tokens. The player with the highest total score wins, becoming the most eminent courtier in the great City of Peace. A retail version of this game was cancelled and only the Deluxe edition was printed thus all copies include the Golden Age Expansions. —description from the publisher
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Questions and answers
Baghdad: The City of Peace supports 1–4 players according to the catalogue. This range comes from the publisher’s listed player count, so the game can be set up for any group size within it. Some setups, rules and scoring details may still vary by player count, so check your edition’s rulebook for the exact configuration.
The listed playing time for Baghdad: The City of Peace is 90–120 minutes. This is the publisher’s estimate for a full game. The actual duration depends on the group, the player count and familiarity with the rules: first sessions usually run longer, while experienced groups often finish faster. Setup and teaching time are not included in this estimate.
The catalogue lists Baghdad: The City of Peace for ages 14 and up. This is the publisher’s recommendation and reflects reading demands, rule complexity and small components rather than theme alone. Younger players can often join with help from an adult, so check the age guidance on your edition and consider your group’s experience with board games.
Baghdad: The City of Peace has a complexity rating of 3.3 out of 5 from BoardGameGeek players, which makes it a medium-weight game. The rating reflects how much rules knowledge, planning and decision-making a typical game demands. Expect a longer first teach for heavier games, and use a preparation guide before game night.
Baghdad: The City of Peace belongs to these categories: Medieval, City Building, and Arabian. Its main mechanics are Hand Management, Solo / Solitaire Game, and Worker Placement. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The credited designers of Baghdad: The City of Peace are: Fabio Lopiano and Nestore Mangone. These credits come from the published game data and name the people responsible for the game’s design, not its illustrators or publishers. Designer pages on MeepleRules collect other titles by the same designers, which helps when you enjoy a game and want to find similar ones.
The catalogue lists Baghdad: The City of Peace as a base game. It can be played on its own with the components in the box and does not require any other title. Expansions, if any exist, add new content or rules on top of it and are listed separately in the catalogue with a link back to this base game.