Year: 2016
Players: 2–4
Play time: 120min
Min age: 12+
Weight: 4.47
BGG rating: 7.95
BGG rank: #869
Best with: 3

Owned by

Michael Redlich

Local copies

Rating: ★ 8.0

Michael Redlich
Rating: ★ 8.0

MeepleMates notes for Pax Renaissance

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Pax Renaissance is available as a public board game page on MeepleMates for group planning and collection tracking.
Best with 3 player according to player poll data.
BoardGameGeek average rating 7.95 and BGG rank #869.
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Recommended player counts include 2, 4.

As a Renaissance banker, you will finance kings or republics, sponsor voyages of discovery, join secret cabals, or unleash jihads and inquisitions. Your choices determine whether Europe is elevated into the bright modern era or remains festering in dark feudalism. In Pax Renaissance, you have two actions each turn. As in other Pax games, you can acquire cards in a market, sell them out of the game, or play them into your tableau. You can also stimulate the economy by running trade fairs and trading voyages for Oriental goods. A map of Europe with trade routes from Portugal to Crimea is included, and discovering new trade routes can radically alter the importance and wealth of empires, ten of which are in the game. Four victories determine the future course of Western Society: Will it be towards imperialism, trade globalization, religious totalitarianism, or enlightened art and science?

Mechanics

Open DraftingSimulationMarketIncrease Value of Unchosen ResourcesAction PointsAuction: Dutch

Best with how many players

Not rec.

Recommended

Best

Recommended

Not rec.

Community votes from BoardGameGeek

Language dependence

Moderate in-game text(4 of 10 votes)

Sub-rankings

Strategy Game Rank#444
Thematic Rank#135

Videos

Video language

BoardGameGeek7

Session1

A Moment With Pax Renaissance... Live!
BoardGameGeek · Scawt
English · Curated source

Instructional4

Other2

External data

No Wikidata data is stored for this game yet. If the scheduled enrichment has run recently, Wikidata probably has no BGG mapping for it.

Latest Wikidata run: ok · 09/23/2026.