''Food Chain Magnate'' is a

strategy Strategy (from Greek στρατηγία ''stratēgia'', "troop leadership; office of general, command, generalship") is a general plan to achieve one or more long-term or overall goals under conditions of uncertainty. In the sense of the " a ...

board game A board game is a type of tabletop game that involves small objects () that are placed and moved in particular ways on a specially designed patterned game board, potentially including other components, e.g. dice. The earliest known uses of the ...

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. In 2019, Splotter Spellen released ''Food Chain Magnate: The Ketchup Mechanism & Other Ideas'', an expansion to the main game, and in 2023 Lucky Duck Games announced ''Food Chain Magnate: Special Edition'', a re-print of the original game.

Reception

In 2022, ''

IGN ''IGN'' is an American video gaming and entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc. The company's headquarters is located in San Francisco's SoMa district and is headed by its former e ...

'' 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". '' CNET'' ranked the game as the "best complex strategy game" for 2022 and mentioned its "sheer scope".

Shut Up & Sit Down Shut Up & Sit Down (often abbreviated to SUSD) is a board game review website and YouTube channel headed by Quintin Smith, Matt Lees, and Tom Brewster. The channel formerly had Paul Dean as a member, and has featured Ava Foxfort, Philippa Warr of ...

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.

References

External links

* *
Food Chain magnate: Special Edition
{{board-game-stub Board games introduced in 2015 Dutch board games Economic simulation board games Strategy games