Stone Age

Stone Age Review

This Stone Age Review talks about the popular game published in 2008. Stone Age is a fun-filled jaunt into the times of our ancestors. This game uses dice but with an interesting twist! As a result, there are a number of ways to score points.

stone-age-2 Stone Age Review:

  • Designed by: Bernd Brunnhofer and Michael Tummelhofer
  • Published by: Rio Grande Games
  • Number of players: 2-4
  • Playing time: 60 minutes
  • Player ages: 10+

Rio Grande Games is the publisher of this game. When you open the box, you will find inside a gorgeous and beautifully illustrated game board and player mats. Also included is a full colour, easily readable rule book and a leather dice cup!

Stone Age Review – A Quick Overview

Stone Age is a combination of worker placement and resource collection. Players vie with each other to collect various resources such as wood, brick, stone and gold in order to build huts for their settlements.

Of course, the players have to be careful not to spend too many workers on resources as their villagers need to be fed!

At the beginning of the game, each player recieves:

  • 5 workers of their color and
  • 12 food units

Now the game begins…

Stone Age Review – Game Play

On your turn during the game, you can send out any number of your workers to one of several areas on the game board. Each area of the board will allow you to get different items based on the result of the dice. The number of dice you roll is determined by the number of workers you have in an area.

Game play follows three steps:

  • Place workers
  • Resolve worker placements / gather resources
  • Feed your population

The game board consists of 4 unique groups of areas for:

  • Food gathering
  • Resource collecting
  • Developing your village
  • Increasing your civilization’s “worth”


Once you place your workers in an area, you may not add any more workers to that area. So, careful thought is needed before placing your workers. After all the players have placed their workers, the areas are resolved in player turn order.

As an example, if a player has 3 workers in the forest, that player will roll 3 dice (one per worker) and gather wood. The cost of wood is 3 so if a player rolls a total of 12 on three dice, the player will get 4 wood resources.

Brick, stone and gold become more expensive at a cost of 4, 5 and 6 respectively.

During the game, players will have a general idea of strategy but will need to be able to quickly react to other players’ placements that may affect their plans.

Stone Age Review – Summary

Stone Age is a fun and interactive game that involves dice in a creative and unique way. It is a lot of fun for 2-4 players and takes about 60 minutes to play.  It is an interactive game and players are rewarded for strategic and tactical play.

stone-age-4What really breathes life into this game are the strategic possibilities of the Civilization Cards. While you are developing your village, make sure that your “cultural output”, given by the Civilization Cards, is also not neglected.

The Civilization Cards are the main source of points during the game so getting the cards for a reasonable price is something to consider. Happy gaming!

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