2021 · Industry / Manufacturing
Factory 42
Euro-style board game for 2-5 players about Marxist dwarves working in a steampunk factory. Players act as factory overseers, managing resources through worker placement and a bureaucracy cube tower. Players acquire requisitioned resources, load and ship railcars, manage limited storage, trade on the open market, conduct research, and manufacture government-ordered goods. Unpredictable resource availability and changing worker order create opportunities for negotiation, temporary alliances, and competition, while shared production goals may require cooperation.
- Players
- 2–5 best 5
- Playing time
- 90–120 min
- Age
- 12+
- Complexity
- 3.6 / 5
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Full stats in Ludoya- 4
- Plays logged
- 9
- Players
- 2
- In collections
2.0/10
from 1 Ludoya review
Emily C2.0 The cubes' setup is so fiddly, horrible at lower player count because you can literally screw over the "engine." I love cube towers but the setup was way too painful and just painful to play.
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Free, on web, Android and iOS
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