The round houses (a.k.a., Fujian Tulou) are unique rural dwellings that can be found in the mountain areas in southeastern Fujian, China, dating back to the Ming dynasty (17th century). A round house is a large, multi-floor, enclosed, and fortified earth building housing usually a whole clan, which functions as a village and is known as "a little kingdom for the family".
In the game Round House, players are the head of a family who tries to lead their members to glory. By visiting merchants and acquiring the help of specialist, you can expend your influence event face ruthless pirates.At the beginning of each year the whole family must come together to pay respect to the ancestors and present your accomplishment.
Round House, a game with straight forward rules but provides endless possibilities, successfully combines the classic gaming mechanisms with traditional culture, bringing oriental colors into you game play experience.
Players take turns moving their pawns around the circular building in one direction, stopping one various merchant with different offerings. Whether you end up achieving your goals, depend on cleaver strategy and improvisation. Performing different actions to get goods, trade goods for money, hire experts, send family members for distant business, and eventually bring the families home to worship the ancestors. You must find By cleverly moving your pawns around the round house and maximizing the performance of your faithful family members, you might become the most glorious family and win the game! The different actions allow players to devise their strategy freely.
在古代，平民百姓的生命與家產飽受盜匪的威脅，為了保護自己以及家人，許多氏族一同建造了雄偉的「圓樓」並居住其中，透過互利互助讓彼此的家族不斷的壯大、繁盛。
這款遊戲，就是以世界文化遺產「圓樓」作為舞台，講述一群小人物如何在這個混亂的大時代，想辦法安身立命並且出人頭地的故事。《圓樓》就是這麼一款富含著傳統文化，成功將神秘東方文化色彩，以及經典桌上遊戲機制融合在一起的絕佳作品。
遊戲中，玩家們領導著自己的氏族，在圓樓中拜訪著各種商家，透過延攬各具特色的能人異士、謹慎的經商、甚至是勇敢地與城外的盜匪戰鬥來壯大自己的勢力。每一年在過新年的時候，更是必須招集全家族的親人，回到祖厝吃團圓飯，並且在列祖列宗與家族長輩面前，展現與回報自己一年來努力的成果。
遊戲主要行動是移動自己的掌櫃拜訪圓樓中的各式店家進行豐富的經商行動，每一個商家都有各自可以執行的特殊能力，但能否巧妙的踩到自己想執行的行動格，就考驗玩家的策略規劃以及臨機應變能力。
除了直接與商家貿易取得分數，玩家還可以透過完成訂單以及雇用各具特殊能力的優秀角色加入自己的商隊。訂單完成後不僅僅會給予玩家分數，更會給予玩家以個特殊能力，透過適當組合角色與合約的特殊能力，可以創造獨樹一格的跑分模式。
超級直觀的遊戲機制，配合上極為需要巧妙安排的貿易路線，考驗著玩家的市場眼光、長遠規劃、以及經營的創意，如何打造屬於自己的團隊，更是遊戲的樂趣所在。
*NOTE* This is an English, Chinese & Japanese trilingual edition. 這是中，英，日三語版。(Chinese)
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