''Food Chain Magnate'' is a

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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.

Reception

In 2022, ''

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'' 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".

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praised the game, describing it as "cutthroat" in a positive sense, but criticised the game's 'reserve' card system because they result in players not knowing how long the game is expected to run was when they begin play.

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* * {{board-game-stub Board games introduced in 2015 Dutch board games Economic simulation board games Strategy games