"Twenty million, twenty-one million, twenty-two million... hey! Where’s the rest of my bonus?" The CEO’s voice does not match his elegant, tailor-made suit. "But sir..." the accountant protests, "you have bankrupted this company. Your employees have lost their pensions. Surely you can..." "Stop whining," the CEO interrupts him. "Clearly you don’t understand business at all. How am I supposed to pay for adequate transportation if I do not get my bonus? Make sure you transfer the money, today!" He slams the door of his white limousine and drives off, heading for a new challenge.
Greed, Incorporated is a game of corporate malversations and greedy executives. You run one or more companies and make their accounting books look as good as possible using every trick that good old honest businessmen ever invented. And some more. Just make sure to leave the company, cashing your exit bonus, before the company crashes and the credit crunch commences.
Contents:
Rulebook
Mounted game board
17 Black wooden cubes to keep track of prices
11 Yellow wooden cubes to keep track of price trends
6 Red wooden boot markers
10 Black wooden dollar signs
1 Green wooden dollar starting player token
5 Player aids
5 Sets of 12 player manager tokens each
10 Company placards
10 Company cards
40 Asset cards
18 Status symbol cards - 9 each in gold and silver
99 Goods cards, depicting 11 different goods
1 pile of playing money
- Not great looking components.
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Stock market — This is a stock market game for sure.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- I know it has its own little like um uh you know sub cult of people who enjoy it.
- I don't particularly like it because I think it has a very strong rich get richer.
- If you start winning an Outpost you were going to continue winning because if your engine gets going faster than mine there's not much I can do about it.
- But yeah this one does not This one is one I wanted to like a lot more than I did.
- it's a good back and forth two-player game.
- I like the theme of it a lot. Seems like most music games I play aren't very good.
- I I find this one amusing.
- It almost feels like you could play it randomly and have the same amount of fun, but it's a nice way to pass some time.
- It's a great little filler.
- I don't think a lot of people have played this one.
- It was replaced by Nobody is Perfect, too, because they didn't get it right the first time.
- This is what a lot of people were talking about.
- It was one of those games that I saw a little bit of buzz and I was like, "Ooh, I'll have to play that sometime." and then never heard anything else about it.
- I think that's just a really solid two-player game from Catalia.
References (from this video)
- thematic ambition
- simulation depth
- yields a heavier experience
- economic simulation
- stocks and shares market
- serious, strategic
- Power Grid
- For Sale
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- economic simulation — price movements and asset management
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- I don't know very much about wargames I haven't played many war games
- these games are for adults
- these are the vast majority these are available easily
- abstract strategy games don't really look like that anymore
- these are not children's items they're for adults to have a serious time together