Seize the Bean

Name: Seize the Bean
Brand: Quality Beast
Rating: 7.4 (7 reviews)

Run a new café in Berlin and compete to become the most reputable spot in the city. Players serve a rotating line of customers with varied drink demands, manage inventory, and use limited actions to attract patrons, expand the menu, and install decor upgrades. Serving customers grants special abilities that can rearrange the customer line, affect the shared city reputation pool, or interact with other players. Balance restocking, customer combos, and upgrades to maximize reputation before the central reputation pool is exhausted and the final round begins.

Players: 1–4 best 3
Playing time: 45–90 min
Age: 10+
Complexity: 2.9 / 5

7.4 on LudoyaAction / DexterityEconomicHand ManagementDeck, Bag, and Pool BuildingWorker Placement

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About the game

Design: Andy Couch
Dylan Howard Cromwell
Art: Mario Fernández García-Pulgar

Expansions

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Seize the Bean: Quality Beasts Customer Expansion Pack2021

Seize the Bean: Board Game Media Customer Expansion Pack2021

Seize the Bean: 5-6 Player Expansion2021

Seize the Bean: City Celebrities Customer Expansion Pack2021

Seize the Bean: Extra Founders Expansion Pack2021

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38
Plays logged: 61
Players: 1h 26m
Average play: 12
In collections: 6
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7.4/10

from 7 Ludoya reviews

Kush7.2
Gorgeous production, a distinct theme with a sense of humor, and overall a fun package. The gameplay has many twists and an interesting mix of mechanisms, variations in gameplay (rule sets for flexibility for your group), and additional modules (huge variety of customer groups, founders, etc) — everything that adds up to long-lasting freshness and a sense of discovery. While the game is not that complicated, it has a slightly unconventional (but eventually, intuitive) game-flow and front-loaded iconography (though they have been done well here unlike other games with lots of unintuitive and ugly icons) making it a tad daunting for the first play or two for some. However, some games are rewarding enough that the cost of playing a couple of times to internalize its language is perfectly acceptable, and this is definitely one of them for me.

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