Base price: $XX.
2 - 4 players.
Play time: 60 - 75 minutes.
BGG | Board Game Atlas
Check it out on Kickstarter!
Logged plays: 2
Full disclosure: A preview copy of Coal Baron was provided by The Crowdfunding Agency. Some art, gameplay, or other aspects of the game may change between this preview and the fulfillment of the Kickstarter, should it fund, as this is a preview of a currently unreleased game.
I did that thing I keep swearing I'll never do, which is crowdfunding previews in January. December is, essentially, a non-entity month; too busy with family and holidays and travel and PAX Unplugged and end-of-work-year shenanigans. This means that I essentially end up doing all my review work for January and February in between Christmas and New Year's, and oh, would you look at that? It's happening right now? Shocking. Anyways, we've got a few games hitting the various crowdfunding sites in the next few months, so over the next few weeks I'll have more to say about them. First up is a new version of 2013's Coal Baron; let's check that out!
In Coal Baron, players become industrialists in the early 1900s. Each with their own mines, they seek fame and fortune through ... pretty unabashed worker exploitation. The game doesn't really cover that last bit, so maybe you just run your mines much better than literally everyone else who did at that time. One can hope. But in order to fulfill the many orders you'll need to make, you'll be recruiting workers in town, making sure they're prepared, and putting them to work doing everything from manufacturing minecarts to building tunnels deeper into the mine to picking up more money from the bank! It's a business and you sit at the top of it, waxing your mustache or whatever. Will your workers lift you to wealth and prosperity?
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