Food Chain Magnate
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{{Short description|2015 strategy board game}}
{{Infobox game|name=Food Chain Magnate|image=Food Chain Magnate box art.jpg|designer=Jeroen Doumen, Joris Wiersinga|illustrator=Iris de Haan, Ynze Moedt|publisher=Splotter Spellen|date={{Start date and age|2015}}|players=2-5|playing_time=120–240 minutes|random_chance=Low|ages=14+}}
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.{{Cite web |last=Priest |first=David |date=1 August 2022 |title=Best Strategy Board Games for 2022 |url=https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/best-strategy-board-games/ |access-date=7 October 2022 |website=CNET |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2016-03-10 |title=Food Chain Magnate ＞ Lautapeliopas |url=https://www.lautapeliopas.fi/peliarvostelut/food-chain-magnate/ |access-date=2022-10-07 |website=Lautapeliopas |language=fi}}
In 2019, Splotter Spellen released Food Chain Magnate: The Ketchup Mechanism & Other Ideas, an expansion to the main game,{{Cite web |date=26 September 2018 |title=Of course Food Chain Magnate's first expansion will have a 'Ketchup Mechanism' |url=https://www.tabletopgaming.co.uk/news/of-course-food-chain-magnates-first-expansion-will-have-a-ketchup/ |access-date=5 October 2022 |website=Tabletop Gaming}} and in 2023 Lucky Duck Games announced Food Chain Magnate: Special Edition, a re-print of the original game.{{Cite web |title=Food Chain Magnate: Special Edition coming to Gamefound November 14th {{!}} Food Chain Magnate |url=https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3157250/food-chain-magnate-special-edition-coming-gamefoun |access-date=2023-11-24 |website=BoardGameGeek |language=en-US}}
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".{{Cite web |last=Thrower |first=Matt |date=26 September 2022 |title=The Best Strategy Board Games (2022) |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/the-best-strategy-board-games |access-date=5 October 2022 |website=IGN |language=en}} CNET ranked the game as the "best complex strategy game" for 2022 and mentioned its "sheer scope". 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.{{Cite web |date=5 February 2016 |title=Review: Food Chain Magnate |url=https://www.shutupandsitdown.com/videos/review-food-chain-magnate/ |access-date=7 October 2022 |website=Shut Up & Sit Down |language=en-UK}}
References
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External links
- {{BGG|175914|Food Chain Magnate}}
- {{BGG|261526|Food Chain Magnate: The Ketchup Mechanism & Other Ideas}}
- [https://gamefound.com/en/projects/lucky-duck-games/food-chain-magnate-special-edition Food Chain magnate: Special Edition]
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Category:Board games introduced in 2015