Food Chain Magnate Review

Food Chain Magnate has built up a bit of a reputation in the board gaming world partly earned but also partly as a result of the mythology that surrounds any challenging game.

Food chain magnate review. Food Chain Magnate is a heavy strategy game about building a fast food chain. Fast Food in the Flying Fifties. As for two-players I would only recommend FCM if both players are intent on seeing the game through.

Your fast food empire starts with a single location and a CEO card that allows you to train another employee including waitresses errand boys to fetch drinks marketing managers kitchen staff that make burgers and pizzas trainers and other folks and to put two employees to work. And as you play the game youll be in a constant state of. The focus is on building your company using a card-driven human resource management system.

Food Chain Magnate is an indie game and hence does not have the production values one might expect from large publishers. Calculating whether a household that wants burgers lemonade and beer will go to a nearby restaurant or a cheaper one a little farther off is simple enough. Calculating it twelve times a round starts to get tedious.

It is a game where the experienced player has a clear advantage and any big mistakes can put you. Splotters wasnt kidding when they said this is a game for serious gamers. In the interests of full disclosure Ill start by stating my position for the record I think this game is one of the best economic games out.

Food Chain Magnate is a difficult thinky ridiculous silly and immensely clever game. Food Chain Magnate First Impression - with Tom Vasel. It has a certain audacity that I dont see very much in board games.

One of my favorite games is Through the Ages. There is a need for pizza burgers beer lemonade or pop that must be fulfilled. Some players can deal with the ruthlessness but others are paralyzed by the depth of its options and cannot get a sense for Food Chain.