Food Chain Magnate

Food Chain Magnate is a strategy board game 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.^[1][2]

Food Chain Magnate

Designers	Jeroen Doumen, Joris Wiersinga
Illustrators	Iris de Haan, Ynze Moedt
Publishers	Splotter Spellen
Publication	2015; 10 years ago (2015)
Players	2-5
Playing time	120–240 minutes
Chance	Low
Age range	14+

In 2019, Splotter Spellen released Food Chain Magnate: The Ketchup Mechanism & Other Ideas, an expansion to the main game,^[3] and in 2023 Lucky Duck Games announced Food Chain Magnate: Special Edition, a re-print of the original game.^[4]

Reception

In 2022, IGN 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".^[5] CNET ranked the game as the "best complex strategy game" for 2022 and mentioned its "sheer scope".^[1] Shut Up & Sit Down 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.^[6]