Lead your merchant and assistants through 16 bazaar locations to run, collect, and trade goods in this strategy board game adaptation. Move your merchant to drop off assistants for actions, then return to retrieve them, planning ahead to avoid running out. Increase wheelbarrow capacity, gain special abilities, and race to gather rubies first by buying or trading for them.
Play solo against AI with three difficulty levels, challenge friends in cross-platform online multiplayer, or use pass-and-play mode on PC. Replay opponents' moves, choose preset or random boards, and enjoy colorblind support alongside intuitive controls. Casual strategy fans who love merchant trading and assistant management find a faithful digital take on the classic board game.
Mocha & Baksheesh DLC
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The official digital adaptation of one of the best board games in history – Istanbul.
Istanbul is, without a doubt, one of the best board games to have ever been published.
Collect and trade goods! Plan ahead! Earn rubies and win the race to fortune! Become the best merchant in Istanbul! This faithful adaptation of one of the best board games of all time will turn you into a merchant on a journey from rags to riches.
So what is the game about?
Can you be the first merchant to collect a certain number of rubies?
• Run, collect, and trade goods across the bazaar
• Take control over your assistants
• Increase your wheelbarrow capacity
• Acquire special abilities to increase the advantage over your competitors
• Buy rubies or trade goods for them
In Istanbul, you lead a group of one merchant and his four assistants through 16 locations in the bazaar. In each such location, you can carry out a specific action. The challenge, however, is that to take action, you must move your merchant and an assistant there, then leave the assistant behind to handle all the details while you focus on larger matters. If you want to use that assistant again later, your merchant must return to that location to pick him up. Thus, you must plan ahead carefully to avoid being left with no assistants and thus unable to do anything…
What can you expect?
• Official Istanbul game - 100% original rules
• Adaptation of TOP 100 board games of all time by BGG ranking
• Play with AI, with friends, or with both
• Great artwork by Andreas Resch
• Languages: English, German, Dutch, Polish, French, Korean, Japanese, Chinese Simplified, Spanish
• Pass and play mode
• Cross-platform online multiplayer with synchronous and asynchronous modes
• Opponents' last moves replay
• 3 levels of difficulty AIs with individual strategies
• Preset or randomly generated game boards
• Atmospheric music and sounds
• Unique, original board game experience
• Intuitive gameplay
• Colorblind mode
• Over 70 achievements
What are you waiting for? Become the best merchant in Istanbul!
The long list of awards and honors speaks for itself:
2018 Golden Geek Best Board Game App Nominee
2015 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Best Expert Game Nominee
2014 Swiss Gamers Award Winner
2014 Meeples' Choice Nominee
2014 Kennerspiel des Jahres Winner
2014 International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Multi-player Nominee
2014 Gra Roku Nominee
2014 Gouden Ludo Winner
2014 Golden Geek Board Game of the Year Nominee
2014 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Nominee
2014 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee
In Istanbul: Digital Edition, we have kept all of the things that made Istanbul the game beloved by fans, but also expanded upon it with a number of tools and features only available on the digital platform. We maintained the authentic board game feeling with the convenience you can expect from the digital platform.
