Fernando Pessoa (13 June 1888 - 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher, and philosopher and has been described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets of all times. Pessoa was a prolific writer and not only under his own name because he created approximately seventy-five others. He did not call them all pseudonyms because he felt that some did not capture their true independent intellectual life and instead called them heteronyms.In Pessoa, you embody some of his renowned heteronyms Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, lvaro de Campos, and Bernardo Soares. You navigate between the metaphysical realm of Pessoa's thoughts and the tangible landscapes of Lisbon. This movement allows you to draw inspiration from the city's iconic cafs, explore bookshops to enrich your literary collection and understanding, and ultimately find creative stimulus for composing poems, all of which contribute to your accumulation of victory points. The player with the highest number of victory points at the game's conclusion emerges as the winner.In more detail, Pessoa is a worker-placement game with special rules for where players can place their heteronyms since each player is a different heteronym. But all players are also the same physical person, Fernando Pessoa.The game comes with two modules that can be used independently as the players wish. If you play with only the base game, Pessoa fares well as an advanced family game with straightforward rules, but with interesting decisions and a more tactical nature. With the modules, Pessoa becomes a more complex game, in which extra layers of strategy combine to offer you a rich experience that tries to shine light on the complex figure that Fernando Pessoa was.The game's rulebook includes historical notes to explain how theme and mechanisms are interconnected, providing you an accurate historical
