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Big Boss box art
1994 Ranked #3,490

Big Boss

This corporate strategy game has players found companies, expand them, and buy shares. Takeovers create opportunities to seize value from smaller rivals.

Strategy Games Economic Industry / Manufacturing Stock Holding Admin: Better Description Needed!

Players

2-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

10+

Complexity

2.39/5

Rating

7.23

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Big Boss is a game of founding companies, expanding existing companies, taking over smaller companies and share buying.

Core mechanisms

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Big Boss is a game of founding companies, expanding existing companies, taking over smaller companies and share buying. The game is explicitly based on the Sid Sackson classic Acquire and shares many similarities to that game though mergers are not as prevalent or crucial in Big Boss. The main differences between the two games include the three dimensional aspect of Big Boss, and the existence of a strong monetary incentive to expand companies that you do not control.

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All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–6
Best with
3–6
Play time
90 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.4/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Wolfgang Kramer

Artists

2
Wolfgang Kramer Franz Vohwinkel

Publishers

1
KOSMOS