Sagrada (board game)
A dice-drafting game of building stained-glass windows.
Sagrada is a dice-drafting game where each player builds a stained-glass window on a 4x5 board. Designed by Adrian Adamescu and Daryl Andrews and released in 2017 by Floodgate Games, it involves placing dice with restrictions, scoring through public and private objectives. After ten rounds, the player with the most points wins.
Quick Facts
- Designer
- Adrian Adamescu, Daryl Andrews
- Illustrator
- Peter Wocken
- Publisher
- Floodgate Games
- Date
- 2017
- Genre
- Dice games, Drafting games
- Players
- 1–4
- Playing time
- 30–60 minutes
- Ages
- 10+
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Did You Know?
- A set of three expansions—Passion, Life, and Glory—called Sagrada: The Great Facades were released between 2019 and 2022.
- A digital version developed by Dire Wolf Digital was published as an app in 2020.
- In 2023, a legacy edition called Sagrada: Artisans was released after a successful Kickstarter campaign.
Reception
Owen Duffy, writing for The Guardian, noted that the game "benefits from some real variety" but has "almost no interaction between players." Wirecutter listed Sagrada among "The Best Board Games" as of 2024, with Anna Perling praising its graphic design and simple rules. Polygon's Charlie Hall called it a "gorgeous board game that's easy to teach and quick" in a list of best board games at Target. Ars Technica's 2019 gift guide described it as playing quickly, looking gorgeous, and offering a satisfyingly thinky experience with low rules overhead. Players with colour blindness have reported difficulty distinguishing dice, as colour is the only differentiating feature; the app by Dire Wolf Digital includes a colour-blind mode.
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