Lost Cities
Lost Cities is card game for the Xbox 360, based upon the popular card game of the same name by game designer Reiner Knizia, published by Sierra Online. In early 2009, Lost Cities was removed from the Xbox…
Lost Cities is a card & board game developed by Sierra Online Shanghai, released 23 April 2008 on Xbox 360, iOS, Linux and Mac.
What Lost Cities is
Lost Cities is a card & board game game developed by Sierra Online Shanghai and released in 2008. It was published by Vivendi Games. It is available on Xbox 360, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Risk it all on the expeditions of a lifetime in the award-winning card game Lost Cities as it comes to life on Xbox Live Arcade. Draw from a pool of cards to amass the most points, play your cards wisely, take chances with your money, and create the best strategy to outwit your opponent on the road to victory. True to the original: All of the fun and strategy of the original card game has been faithfully translated for the console audience. Easy to learn: Jump into a game and start devising strategies within minutes. Exotic locales: Manage prosperous expeditions through the lost cities of the frozen Himalayas to the sandy deserts of Egypt, and even the Brazilian rain forest. Online play…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are business. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Lost Cities holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 19% of the 303 rated card & board game games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Lost Cities launched on 23 April 2008, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto IV, Valkyria Chronicles, Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition and Mario Kart Wii. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto IV, Valkyria Chronicles, Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition, Mario Kart Wii.
Official trailer
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