My City

Reiner Knizia's polyomino city builder is the gentlest way into legacy play. The campaign is 24 games of about 30 minutes each, grouped into eight eras of three, and stickers alter each player's landscape as new rules arrive. Short sessions mean a group can finish an era in one evening, and the publisher pitches it as a family legacy game with simple rules. One review found that the city evolves through new legacy content and rarely through the players' choices, so groups wanting a branching story may find it thin. What it does better than almost anything here is the ending: flip the double-sided board and it becomes a repeatable game, no reset kit required.