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Arkwright: The Card Game (Kickstarter)
60m - 100m
1 - 4 Players
Ages 12+
In the late 18th century, the Industrial Revolution starts. The first factories were founded by businessmen like Richard Arkwright, who ran the first factory for spinning wool with machines like the "Spinning Jenny" and the water frame.
In "Arkwright: The Card Game", you run a business and will employ workers in your different factories to produce and sell goods. The more workers, the more goods that can be sold — but be prepared for crises and some stiff competition.
The game is played over three decades (1770/1780/1790), split up into four rounds per decade. On your turn, you play new cards from your hand to open factories and upgrade existing ones, select improvements, improve factory quality, build machines, and employ new workers. You can also pay money to improve your shareholdings, and take out loans if you require more money for production costs. After the actions phase, you can improve your abilities by advancing your development markers on your player board, or take one of the available development cards.
Then, the production phase starts, where every player who owns a factory of the current good produces those goods. The market fluctuates with the general demand, so the demand may be lower than the value of your current good, lowering your profit. Workers must be paid, and machines need regular maintenance, so you can possibly lose money instead of turning a profit. Selling enough of one good improves your share value, and there are bonuses for having the highest appeal. Lastly, if you can’t sell your goods to the home market, you can ship them overseas or store them for future rounds.
After the final round of the last decade, the game ends. Players then sell all goods left in their storehouses, reduce the number of shares they hold by the number of loans they took, and reduce their share value based on their personal shipping track. Each player then multiplies the number of their shares by their share value to determine their end score. The player with the highest end score wins the game.
—description from the publisher
| Ages | 12+ |
|---|---|
| Players | Solo, 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players |
| Play Time | 60m – 100m |
| Designer | Stefan Risthaus |
| Mechanics | Loans, Market, Stock Holding |
| Theme | Card Game, Industry / Manufacturing |
| Publisher | Eagle-Gryphon Games, Game Brewer, Lotus Frog Games, OSTIA Spiele, Rawstone, TLAMA games, Maldito Games |
CastoroBoy
[06/01/22] 6- - A lot of downtime = The choice of use cards to keep track of everything is meh = Other players could screw your plans making the path to victory easier to someone else (Enrico I know you are reading this: say thanks to your friend Andrew for ruined me and Riki) + The Street Lamps illustration on cards merge perfectly
benni_jolink
A fascinating game about industry and economy, with some light interaction between players. It’s complicated but playable, but it has a steep learning curve - and the tiny iconography doesn’t make everything clear right away.
Frankie95
This game currently goes for about £20 on the Geek Market which is a travesty given the quality of the components and the thought that has gone into the design. At the same time it's a dog of a game to grok and it's so fiddly!! You have to slide cards under your factories so the game spills all over the table. Hard to play. Hard to want to get rid of. Will grit my teeth and persevere (has a fully fledged solo mode).