Trinidad is the latest game by Michele Quondam (Medioevo Universale GX, Virus, Romolo o Remo, Gladiatori, and many more), famous for creating strategic games for "heavy game" fans, as some would say. Trinidad is no exception, and it is a game for 1-5 players which lasts about 30-40 min per player. The illustrations of the game are made by Fabio Porfidia and the miniatures models by Kieran Russell.





This campaign includes the Giochix Treasure Contest, which allows you to win great games and will declare the King among the gamers. Will it be you?
See the dedicated section below for more info.

By participating in this campaign you'll help realize this beautiful board game and will receive a copy of Trinidad Deluxe English edition. Here is also possible to pay the pledge with Paypal in 4 installments with zero interest!




We will try to make the Language packs for other languages (for example for Spanish or Dutch), if the campaign will have at least 100 backers of that language. They will be available as Addon for a cheap price.







The addons will be available during the pledge manager. 




Trinidad Deluxe version will be a Limited Edition. It will be available after the campaign in a limited number of copies and will not have a regular distribution in shops. It will be really difficult to find it: don't miss it now.






Note: Trinidad Deluxe metal coins will have a different design of the one shown above, but they will be with the same colors and metal effect (image shows our DVE coins).



Stretch goals are visible on the left column of the page. 


Personal Stretch goal
Share the project page on Social Media channels and get points for each person who will click on your share. The points acquired will allow you to earn 1 to 3 stars.

• With the first star, you will be honorably mentioned in the acknowledgments of the English game’s rulebook.
• With the second star, you will also get the sleeves set (Giochix Perfect sleeves, 120 microns) to protect your Trinidad cards.
• With the third star, you will also get a 10 euro voucher valid on our website giochistarter.it for 6 months!

Last but not least, by participating in the Personal Improvement you will help the Trinidad Deluxe project be successful!

Important: Log in and then share the page by clicking one of the buttons above. Don't forget to login first or you won't get any points! It is necessary to join in the project to obtain the expected prizes.
The shares made will be verified in order to identify any improper and incorrect uses. Any suspicious sharing will be deleted at our sole discretion. The prizes will be awarded after the end of the campaign.



Michele's desk (the designer) as he prepares the prototype for the Dice Tower's video.



In Trinidad, the players are the heads of the Spanish colonial families who founded the Ciudad de la Santisima Trinidad in 1580 (which later became known as Buenos Aires). They will have to develop the starting settlement, by building buildings like houses and palaces, stonecutters, markets, churches, and many more, while making the city look beautiful with squares, fountains, and monuments.
They will have to use their workers as best as they can, choosing carefully where to send them, and also use their characters and affiliates to make the most powerful combos. Furthermore, they will have to work hard to keep good relations with the natives, however hard that may seem, or prepare for a brutal war! And they cannot forget about the English Corsairs, who are only waiting for the right moment to raid the city, as soon as it has become wealthy enough...
After a first difficult colonization phase, the settlement will start looking like a city, and the players will be able to cooperate to build imposing buildings like the Cathedral, the Harbor, the Governor's Palace and the majestic central Fort, and important things like Roads and City Walls.

Are you ready for this challenge?




Designer's note:

This game wants to celebrate the birth and development of a grand city, Buenos Aires. It is a very special city for me, as it’s where I met Paula, my wife.
The adversities that characterized the birth of Buenos Aires were exceptional, so much so that it was founded twice. It is a fascinating story, almost unbelievable, which like all stories has some dark and light aspects. Buenos Aires, like hundreds of other cities in the world, was founded during the Spanish colonial expansion in the XVI century. It was a dark period in the history of humanity, especially in South America, and this game in no way wants to celebrate it or endorse it. Trinidad is about construction, not destruction, and it wants to intrigue its players with its strategy and growing complexity.

I hope you will play it, have fun, and be passionate about it!

A game of Trinidad is played over 12 decades, from 1580 to 1690. During these turns, the players will build the city and defend it against attacks by outsiders. The Victory Points represent the glory of each player's family and will be gained in several different ways. Contributing to building the city gives VPs, as do building your own houses and palaces in worthy neighborhoods. Affiliates will also be worth VPs, as will coins, influence with the City Council, and fighting well during a War.

The player board is used to manage most of the player actions, placing the workers in the work areas.



During each decade in the game the players will be able to choose many different actions: from gathering resources to building buildings, recruiting affiliates, trading, influencing the city's politics, and fighting if there is a war.

Every 4 decades there is a scoring phase, where points will be awarded.


Build Buildings
By spending the relative number of workers and resources, you may build a building. Place the corresponding miniature on the map (and sometimes gain VPs). For example, you may build a simple house by spending 2 workers, or a Palace, by spending 3 workers, 3 wood and 3 stone resources!

Houses and Palaces are the core buildings of the city, and allow players to gain renown and points from the neighborhood they are placed in. You may also build several other buildings, like ones to gather resources, or churches, barracks, square, fountains, and so on.



Use Buildings
Buildings on the map have effects that can be used by any player who owns a house or palace adjacent to them. To use a building, place one or more workers in the corresponding space of your player mat. Some buildings give resources, others allow to sell them, or to gain VPs, recruit soldiers, and so on.

Using workers on the Carpenter's building allows you to gather wood or to transform it into refined resources. The same happens with the Stonecutter, but with stone. Either building may be upgraded to a Hacienda, making it easier to produce refined resources.

The Market allows you to buy and sell resources. Gathering coins will allow you to pay for more affiliates and to gain VPs during a scoring phase, but be careful, as it might also make you be noticed by the Corsairs! The Market can be upgraded to a Corporation, making it much more powerful.

The Barracks allows you to recruit soldiers, who will be essential for the defense of the city and, if you win the wars, will allow you to gain glory and VPs.

The Church, if adequately bribed, will give your social status a nice lift, granting you several VPs.

Squares, with Monuments or Fountains, are that special something that makes a neighborhood shine above the rest, and also makes it worth more VPs.





Major Buildings
These buildings require a high number of workers, higher than the ones available to a single player, to be built, making it necessary to collaborate with other players. Whoever manages to build one, by using promises, threats, or trading, will get both VPs and benefits.

• The Fort will make the player soldiers more powerful, making it easier to survive enemy attacks.
• The Cathedral will make the Peace last longer, and it will strengthen the power of the Churches.
• The Harbor will make it easier to send resources to Spain, by increasing the number of resources that can be sent, and the VPs received for doing so.
• The Governor's Palace (Cabildo) will give free workers that can be used to build the major buildings and will increase the amount of VPs gained for affiliates.

End of the game and beta rulebook
The player who has scored the most points within the last decade will be the winner of the game! Thanks to the many options to score points, there will never be a dominant strategy and every game will be unique!

If you are curious to see in more detail how the game works, here is the beta rulebook.






Trinidad allows players to modulate the complexity and duration of the game. You can play simpler and faster games at the beginning and gradually add the elements you prefer.
It is possible to choose the duration of the game (8 or 12 game turns), whether or not to use the game modules of the City Council and / or the War.

Similarly, Trinidad scales efficiently according to the number of players: many parameters are influenced, such as the available pieces, the number of cards, the number of resources, coins, the size of the buildings' grids, war difficult, etc.



3D printed prototype.

I started to work on Rio de la Plata 2 years ago with the idea di improve it and to make a new game edition. But after several months, the differences between the two games was so important that I started to consider them two distinct games.

In Trinidad there are several important aspects which are totally new:
- Action cards
- City Council
- Characters
- War system
- VP system

Besides that, there are many other small variations.
Obviously the two games share the theme and the story. Also, the map of the game board is very similar since it recalls the real historical map. Of course, there are things in common. As Trinidad comes from Rio de la Plata, that's natural: the adjacency concept for buildings activation and construction and the common Major building system are very similar, as the concept of trading with Spain.

Another important thing is that Trinidad is modular: you can choose to use or not the War and/or City Council modules, and change the game duration. In this way, you can increase the game length and difficult or keep it faster and simpler.

Last, I'm working on Solo player for Trinidad, so it will be (probably) 1-5 players, and this will be another important difference :-)

I hope to have kept the best things of Rio de la Plata and that you all will enjoy the many new mechanicals of the game!

Michele Quondam

We are pleased to announce that we have an international print partner to produce French localized language versions of Trinidad Deluxe:


Philibert, French edition. This version is available on Philibert website only.
Philibert a l'immense plaisir de vous proposer une version française de Trinidad Deluxe en partenariat avec Giochix. Vous pouvez le commander directement pendant la durée de la campagne sur notre boutique en ligne www.philibertnet.com et bénéficier ainsi de l'ensemble des stretch goals débloqués.




The Giochix Treasure Contest is active during this campaign: you can win the latest Giochix board games, including the 2020-2021 games, which are still not published!
The competition includes a series of questions available here on the giochistarter website. The questions will test your ability to recognize board games and your knowledge of Trinidad game.

Everyone who answers the questions correctly will win one of the Giochix Treasure games! Each of the participants will have two jokers at their disposal, this means that the first two mistakes will be ignored.

The one who will answer best of all will be the King among the gamers. The King will win two games instead of one. Will it be you?

What will be available in the Treasure depends on the number of participants in the Trinidad Deluxe campaign (both GS and KS backers count), as indicated in the table below:

It will be possible to collect your copy of Trinidad Deluxe for free at the Giochix Shop in Rome (Via Igino Giordani 18), and, if available in time, at our stand at the Essen Fair (German, October 2021), Play Fair (Italy, April 2021) and, probably, also at the UKExpo (May 2021, this is under definition).

The shipment of a single game in Italy costs about 8 Euros. For other countries, shipping costs are shown by the site during the finalization of the cart.

Considering the cheapest solution the approximate shipping cost of 1 copy of Trinidad Deluxe is:


The games will be shipped in April-July 2021 or as soon as available. As the coronavirus pandemic is still ongoing, the scheduled dates may change in the event of a worsening of the situation.

Michele, Fabrizio, Federico, and Chiara, a small group of crazy board game enthusiasts! This is Giochix!