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Futuropia
90m - 90m
1 - 4 Players
Ages 12+
In Futuropia, Friedemann Friese’s big utopian economic game for 1-4 optimizers, players live in a future Utopian society that possesses desirable lifestyle qualities for all of its citizens. Too bad this is not today’s reality…
In this Utopian society, we all will work much less. Our robots can do nearly everything already. There is no need for great envy. It is simply about equality, justice, and the fair allocation of the complete and still necessary work, which then gives us ALL more leisure time.
Success means we will have time for the activities we like the most: fishing, farming, fencing, flying, …, as well as gaming, building, painting, traveling, composing, and more. If somebody wants to work more than needed, they should do that. This is about the freedom! So let us rethink this: joblessness is not a disgrace, it is the new goal!
We are members of a team striving to realize this utopian ideal. We try to develop completely self-sustaining homes that function as efficiently as possible. They must generate enough food and energy to allow the residents the greatest possible freedom (thus, leisure time). The more people in our development who no longer need to work, the closer we are to reaching our goal! The player who builds the best development will win the game, and their development will become reality!
Futuropia is a luck-free economic game. To ensure you always encounter new challenges, we offer multiple game set-up variations, which create a variety of gameplay situations, ensuring new experiences and replayability. The solo game offers you an option to learn the mechanisms and processes of Futuropia before you play it with other players. See our hopeful future in…Futuropia!
| Ages | 12+ |
|---|---|
| Players | Solo, 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players |
| Play Time | 90m – 90m |
| Designer | Friedemann Friese |
| Mechanics | Simulation |
| Theme | Economic, Environmental, Industry / Manufacturing, Political, Science Fiction |
| Publisher | 2F-Spiele, Stronghold Games, Swan Panasia Co., Ltd., Edge Entertainment, Galápagos Jogos |
Mozzik
(Note, played on the A sides only) This game really feels like it's on rails - it's all about efficiency, but all your options are all so close that you're just trying to muscle out little edges but it's hard to evaluate when you're doing that. More important, unless we had the rules wrong (and we checked several times) the entire system of loans is very broken. You can't pay for things with energy/food, but the cost of taking loans is very low and you CAN pay them back in energy/food, so why would you take money as an action except in very rare situations? Baffling. It's not a horrible game, but it really felt like none of us were playing it the way it was intended to play. It's also extremely fiddly as you constantly move parts around, count over and over, etc. Overall - meh? Maybe the B sides make it more interesting? Maybe we actually were playing something wrong??
fredm
Played in Essen Spiel 2018 No surprise in this game... I have the feeling that every games could be played in the same way...Nothing changes from game to game... building will arrive in the same order. No fun for me :'(
pdrseuss
I liked my partial play of the intro game. It reminds me of PG:Factory Manager a little. I can't wait to try the full game, and the solo mode. Setup takes some time.