The Great Fire of London 1666

It is Sunday 2 September 1666. In the bakery of Thomas Farriner a hearth fire keeps smouldering, and nobody puts it out in time. What follows is a disaster that would go down in history: a blaze that eventually destroys 13,000 houses and leaves almost all of London homeless. And you are right in the middle of it. The future of the city is in your hands. In The Great Fire of London 1666 you play a wealthy landowner with plenty of property all across the city. The mayor does not step in, so it is up to powerful men like you to direct the fire brigade and tame the flames. Together you decide which districts to give up and which to save. You send in trained militias to put out the fire and you use explosives to blow up whole blocks of houses, so the fire cannot spread any further. But watch out: many of those houses belong to you and your fellow players. Every choice affects your own property and your standing. Will you mostly protect your own houses and calmly let the fire devour the property of your rivals? Or will you become the hero of London who tries to save as much of the city as possible? Whoever has the most properties left after the ashes settle can win. But whoever spares the famous monuments and stops the fire may well win the hearts of the people. Save the city, or watch it go up in flames.