Quadropolis

To set up round 1, each player receives their city mat and four architects. Remove all expert tiles and shuffle the rest of the round 1 tiles together. Place them on the construction site face-down. Now, flip them over, leaving the 3- and 4-player tiles face-down if you don't have that many players. When it's time to set up future rounds, follow this process again with the next round's tiles. For round 1, choose a player to go first however you see fit, giving them the green mayor pawn.

The goal of the game is to win by having the most victory points. These points are earned from building in all sorts of unique ways, as explained in the scoring section.

On your turn, you'll choose a building, place it in your city, and collect resources from the building if applicable. To select a building, choose one of your architects, then place it on the edge of any line or column in the construction site. Your architect cannot be placed over another architect and cannot be pointed at the urbanist. Look at the number on the architect you chose. Count that many squares away and take that building, moving the urbanist to that square. Now, place that building in your city in a row or column that matches the building architect's number. If the building is a tower block, you can also build a second, third, or fourth floor of that building if you used architect 2, 3, or 4, respectively. After placing your building, collect the inhabitants or energy shown in the upper left of that tile. Inhabitants and energy are used to activate tiles with an activation cost. If there is no legal place for your building, or you just don't want to place it, you may simply discard it. You won't collect the resources on the card.

Tower blocks earn more points the taller they are. Parks earn points for adjacent tower blocks. Shops can welcome up to four inhabitants, earning points for each one. Factories earn two points for each adjacent shop and three points for each adjacent harbor. Public services sometimes have points printed on them and give you points for each district of your city they can be found in. Harbors also have points printed on them and score points for the longest row and longest column of harbors in your city.

The game is played over four rounds, and each round you'll have four turns. This continues until each player has used all four of their architects, after which the next round will begin with a brand new set of tiles in the construction site and your four architects ready to work again. After four rounds, the game ends. Players pay the activation cost of their tiles, destroying tiles they don't have the resources for. Stackable tiles only require the cost of their highest floor. The player with the most victory points wins the game.