by Bastian Borup
Play out the drama of Beverly Hills 90210! Relive iconic moments with Brenda, Kelly, and Dylan, dive into the colors of the 90s, and upgrade your dice. In this cooperative game, you must rise to the top of the social scene together as the new kids in class, succeeding and failing in thematic challenges, while being the best wingman/woman a freshman could ever wish for!
Presentation
- Time: 45-75 min
- Players: 3 – 4
- Language: Danish/English
In Beverly Hills 90210 each player has his or her own set of customizable dice. Each turn you will roll the dice and choose which to share with your neighbors. Dice results may allow you to swap in new and better dice faces to your dice, may allow you to move around Beverly Hills or boost your wallet. The dice might also give you the love, knowledge, and willpower you need to win the guy/girl, pass your exams, and overcome the dramas of everyday life.
Each player will have a player board with affairs, high school stuff, and challenges and a standee to move around the central map of Beverly Hills.
To win the game, you must work together to solve the shared challenges on the main map while keeping an eye on your own private challenges. But the event cards drawn every turn bring new bumps on the road, forcing you to be adaptable and ready to change priorities.
Beverly Hills is a simple game, and everyone can play - but winning will be hard! Light roleplay may occur as a natural part of the theme, but in the end, the game is about the fun of rolling and upgrading dice, taking chances, and working together over conflicting objectives.
2024 Update: In Beverly Hills 90210 on Fastaval everybody can fuck everybody, regardless of gender, class and whatever might hold you back. Now go do it!
About the designers
I am back at Fastaval for the 5th time as a designer and love the design space Fastaval gives you. I have designed games and pitched them to publishers for many years, but the constant push for innovation and weird themes in Fastaval keeps me coming back with crazy ideas. Beverly Hills 90210 has been such a fun ride, begging for 90s art style, cooperation, tension, and a simple game made fun.
Kasper has played board games for more than 40 years. As a science librarian he loves to deconstruct games and scrutinize what makes a game bigger than the sum of its parts. He favors strategy games with historical settings. Kasper first Fastaval board game design “Witch Hunt” won an Otto for best board game and was published as “Pagan: Fate of Roanoke” in 2021.
