Food Chain Magnate
DesignersJeroen Doumen, Joris Wiersinga
IllustratorsIris de Haan, Ynze Moedt
PublishersSplotter Spellen
Publication2015 (2015)
Players2-5
Playing time120–240 minutes
ChanceLow
Age range14+

Food Chain Magnate is a strategy board game published in 2015 by Dutch board game publisher Splotter Spellen. The game involves competition between players for which fast food restaurant chain can earn the most money.[1][2]

In 2019, Splotter Spellen released Food Chain Magnate: The Ketchup Mechanism & Other Ideas, an expansion to the main game,[3] and in 2023 Lucky Duck Games announced Food Chain Magnate: Special Edition, a re-print of the original game.[4]

Reception

In 2022, IGN listed the game as one of the best strategy board games, praising "a richly strategic experience in which inexperienced players can beggar themselves with staggering ease", and noting its "tasty helping of capitalist satire plain to see beneath the game mechanics".[5] CNET ranked the game as the "best complex strategy game" for 2022 and mentioned its "sheer scope".[1] Shut Up & Sit Down praised the game, describing it as "cutthroat" in a positive sense, but criticised the game's 'reserve' card system because they said it resulted in players not knowing how long the game would run for at the beginning of play.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Priest, David (1 August 2022). "Best Strategy Board Games for 2022". CNET. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  2. ↑ "Food Chain Magnate ＞ Lautapeliopas". Lautapeliopas (in Finnish). 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
  3. ↑ "Of course Food Chain Magnate's first expansion will have a 'Ketchup Mechanism'". Tabletop Gaming. 26 September 2018. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  4. ↑ "Food Chain Magnate: Special Edition coming to Gamefound November 14th | Food Chain Magnate". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
  5. ↑ Thrower, Matt (26 September 2022). "The Best Strategy Board Games (2022)". IGN. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  6. ↑ "Review: Food Chain Magnate". Shut Up & Sit Down. 5 February 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2022.


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