Burger Up is a card matching puzzle game about the art of burger making. Fill orders, earn prestige and be the best burger chef around!
Players strive to become the most prestigious restaurant by building the biggest Burgers and by using the best ingredients.
Players take turns, which consist of four phases: the Market phase where players may purchase ingredients from the market, the Building phase where players place up to 3 ingredients on their burgers, the Burger Up! phase where players may score their burgers if they satisfy an order and the clean-up phase where players draw back up to 4 cards.
The game ends when no more Order cards can be revealed. A bonus is awarded to the Chef who built the most burgers and then the winner is determined, based on who has earned the most coins.
- Exceptionally puzzly feel.
- Requires strategic thinking ahead.
- Engine building through upgrading the kitchen.
- Expansion and alternative play versions available.
- Requires careful ingredient drafting and stacking.
- Building burgers by purchasing ingredients to fulfill orders.
- Burger restaurant/kitchen
- Sushi Go
- Hanabi
- Between Two Cities
- Galaxy Trucker
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Drafting — Players draft ingredients from a market row.
- Pattern Building — Players stack ingredients to meet requirements on 'top bun' cards.
- Resource Management — Players purchase ingredients with coins and gain bonus coins.
- Set Collection — Players collect ingredients to fulfill burger orders.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- With hundreds of board games being released each year many board games often slip under the radar or have been purchased and left in a cupboard still in their shrink wrap to gather dust or even worse to not have even seen a single play before being traded off or shipped off to somebody else.
- In this new video series I attempt to brush off the cobwebs blow off the dust and go in search of five board games that you may have forgotten about or you might not have even heard of.
- It's by an Australian designer and I really love supporting Australian board game designers.
References (from this video)
- Cool casual feel
- Brilliant variants available (Sushi Go/7 Wonders)
- Nobody wanted to play it
- Lack of space or time for it
- Building burgers
- Sushi Go
- 7 Wonders
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Fulfilling recipes and flipping cards around.
- Set Collection — Uses dual ingredient cards to place onto burger buns to satisfy different burger requirements.
- Set matching — Stacking burgers to earn victory points.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- there are some games in my collection that where I think it's simply time for them to go time to move on to a new life time to see a better home in a better table space
- I just don't see this game having the large grandiose impact that the original mysterium has
- I love the cover of the game I love what the game does but I feel like the game just does so many things that other games in my collections in my collection does and those games actually do it better
- The concept of recycling materials and you know using uh plastic to create these products is it good for the environment but sifting beyond that Global question of board game production time stories had a great premise
- every step you take in this game is feels a little bit like accounting or clerical work whilst the decisions are quite interesting and they're very impactful it's probably not one that I would feel relaxed while I'm playing it
- I love food that's well plated that's visually appealing it makes me feel hungry and so I got this last game um on a whim
- I just don't have enough space in my game collection and I like some polym polyominol Thailand games like llama land uh polymer tile laying is probably not one of my favorite mechanics
- I'm such a big advocate for not throwing games away protecting the environment and knowing that there is a game for everyone
- these games have such immense educational and such great great entertainment value
References (from this video)
- Fun little game
- Very pretty game
- Great for younger gamers
- Building the best story
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cooperative play — Players work together to achieve a common goal.
- Tile Placement — Players place tiles to score points.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- it is a game that you are trying to build the best story
- this is on steroids oh I can't wait when we can we play um by all means Thursday night when we go to a gaming night we are right there we are going to have a blast with that as well
- there's going to be a big focus on board gaming because that's been the bread and butter of PACs
- The Reading Terminal Market... adjacent to that subway station it is the best food market you will ever set foot in
- RPGs and miniatures those types of gaming don't get enough love at the traditional paksas simply because there's not enough room for them
- Chris Perkins was on Twitter two days ago all his fans that yeah I'll be at PacSun plug
- the rulebook was not very good no we had to look up several times on some of the rules meant
- it is a pretty quick game which is why we like it's only played over the course of three rounds
References (from this video)
- Fulfill as many level conditions as possible in each row and column.
- Reveal colorful number cards and lay them on a grid, trying to fulfill as many level conditions as possible in each row and column.
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- grid placement — Lay them on a five by five grid.
- solo — A solo game.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- essential is around the corner which means there's more board games being released right now than any one person could reasonably play in a lifetime
- board games are just great aren't they
- This one is a worker placement game that takes place over five rounds it looks absolutely charming and I really can't wait to try it out
- ah that was a lot of games but that is not all
References (from this video)
- Compete against your friends to make the fastest burgers to order.
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS. YOU'RE GOING TO WIN ON A GAME THAT you didn't know existed.
- Castle Men, but no Castle Me.
- That's what I WAS TALKING ABOUT.
- Yeah, I've heard that somewhere. That's recent, right?
- It's a free and freeze game, I think.
- What is sand in German?
- Flügelschlag.
- I know what game you're talking about.
References (from this video)
- making burgers
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card game — You're just making burgers with cards and stuff.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Hey everybody, I'm Tom Vasel and welcome to look back where I take a look at reviews that I did last year, 5 years ago, 10 years ago, and 20 years ago during this same time frame. And I tell you what I think about those games now if I think about them at all.
- Wasn't reviewing a lot of great games 10 years ago.
- It blows my mind this game's 10 years old now and everyone has forgotten it ever existed.
- This might have been the first game that I really like noticed who he was.
- Destinies could have been even greater, um, but it was very good for its time.
- And those are the games that I reviewed 1, 5, 10, and 20 years ago. Thanks for watching. I'm Tom Vasel and this is look back on the Dice Tower.
References (from this video)
- Really like that theme a lot
- Is good
- Building hamburgers
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- I had to increase this rating to a 10. I play this all the time. Love this game, it's fantastic.
- This is a remake of an older game. Um Miss Miss Miss Miss I forget the Missenium or whatever it's called. Um from Reiner Knizia and the cows are being abducted. It's weird and unusual and I There's some things I liked about it, but I can't really recommend it because I think it's too odd.
- My kids liked it more though, but 6.5.