Few games turn the faff of planning a holiday into something you actually want to do twice, but Let's Go! To Japan managed it, and now designer Josh Wood is taking the idea to Europe. Let's Go! To France is a standalone trip-planning game for 1 to 4 players, live on Kickstarter now from AEG, and it casts you as a traveller building the perfect six-day French getaway out of a deck of beautifully illustrated activity cards.
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See how it worksOver the game you draft activities and slot them into your itinerary across six days, choosing whether to wander the French Riviera, tour the chateaux of the Loire valley, or base yourself in Paris. Each day has a limited amount of time and energy, so you are constantly weighing one more museum against a proper rest. At the end you score your trip on the experiences you collected and the regions you explored. Wood has streamlined things from the original: the two-deck, two-city train puzzle of the Japan game is gone, replaced with a single deck, regional map objectives, and a system where your daily highlight automatically scores. It is pitched as a touch meatier than its predecessor while still landing in the family-friendly, 45-minute range.
That predecessor is the reason this one is worth watching. Let's Go! To Japan was widely praised as one of the cleverest theme-and-mechanics marriages of 2024, the rare light game that genuinely feels like the thing it is about. France carries the same DNA with a fresh setting that will land especially well with anyone who has spent a summer pencilling in a cross-Channel trip.
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Start organising for freePledges start at $49 (around £38) for the standard edition, with a deluxe Bon Voyage version at $79. The campaign is live on Kickstarter now. If it gets your group dreaming of a holiday, you may as well round up a game night while you are at it.
