It's an arms race! Compete against other players trying to build the most efficient set of factories in the shortest time. You must carefully manage your plans, train your workers and manufacture as many goods as possible to achieve industrial domination! In Fantastic Factories, you race to make the most goods or build the most prestigious buildings. The game features elements such as dice rolling, worker placement, engine building, resource management, board building, simultaneous play and some card drawing. Each round is divided into two phases, the market phase and the work phase.
During the market phase you can either acquire a new plan for free or pay to hire a contractor. Plans are used to build new factories during the work phase. Contractors can be used to reinforce your strategy by providing resources or allowing you to roll additional dice. You must be aware of the cards available in the market and the strategies of your opponents. During the work phase, all players simultaneously roll their dice and use their dice as workers to run factories. The factories start as blueprints and must be built. Once built, each factory can be used once per turn. Workers can be placed in any order and finding the right sequence can make for a powerful chain of actions. In addition, you can build training facilities that allow you to manipulate the dice values of your workers. Each work phase is about solving a unique worker placement puzzle to optimise your production of resources and goods.
When a player has produced 12 goods or built 10 buildings, the end of the game is triggered and an extra, final round is played. The player with the most points wins (combination of building prestige and goods made). With over 30 unique layouts and countless synergies between buildings, each game is unique. Fantastic Factories offers a lot of replayability and satisfaction as players discover new factory engines with each game.
Fantastiques Fabriques funded on the Kickstarter platform
Fantastiques Fabriques was funded on the Crowdfunding Kickstarter (See the campaign) platform on the Oct 27, 2020, the campaign lasted 28 days. 5,147 people helped funded the game, whose the amount requested was $10,000.00. Thanks to these 5,147 people the game could be funded up to $337,712.00, ~3,377.12%.
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Contents of the box : 20 player dice (4 per player), 8 white dice, 54 Energy Chits, 42 Metal Chits, 42 1 Commodity Chits, 42 2 Commodity Chits, 4 Tool Chits, 74 Plan Cards, 17 Provider Cards, 1 First Player Chit, 5 Headquarters Cards, 5 Game Aid Cards, 1 Solo Game Aid Card, 1 Rule Book.
