My Father’s Work

About this board game

My Father’s Work is a competitive board game for 2–4 players with an approximate play time of 180 minutes. Each player becomes a mad scientist, inheriting a large estate and a page from their father’s journal to continue a lifelong scientific ambition.

Restore your laboratory and pursue points through a range of ambitious projects. You can complete experiments, aid the town in its endeavors, improve your macabre estate, and work toward finishing your father’s unfinished masterwork.

Every decision must balance study with active experimentation. At the end of each generation, all experiments and resources are lost to time. Only the Journaled Knowledge and Estate passed on to your child remains, shaping the next stage of your family’s scientific legacy.

• Compete as mad scientists seeking the highest score.
• Develop your estate and complete devious experiments.
• Aid the town while pursuing your father’s masterwork.
• Play across three generations, passing knowledge and an estate to the next generation.

As generations pass, the consequences of ethically dubious work become increasingly difficult to ignore. Your experiments may rouse the townsfolk into angry mobs, while the relentless pursuit of knowledge can send your scientist spiraling into insanity.

In My Father’s Work, your progress is measured not only by what you accomplish, but also by what you successfully preserve for the future. After three generations, the player with the most points becomes the most revered, feared, and ingenious scientist the world has ever known.