Chartered: Building Amsterdam

About this board game

Chartered: Building Amsterdam is a competitive strategy game for 2–5 players, played in about 60 minutes. Set in Amsterdam during the early 1600s, it casts players as merchants competing for economic greatness in a powerful trading city.

Build warehouses throughout Amsterdam and use building cards to establish and grow businesses. As ships voyage to far-off lands and trade flourishes, expand the chartered companies in which you have invested, aiming to grow faster and larger than your opponents.

Success depends on making sharp decisions about where to commit your resources. Will you go all in on one company, or spread your chances across several? Carefully time a merger to maximize your profits, then receive your payout immediately and invest in the companies best positioned to advance your ambitions.

• Build warehouses throughout the city.
• Use building cards to establish and grow businesses.
• Expand chartered companies in which you are invested.
• Time mergers to maximize your profits.
• Choose between concentrating your investments or spreading your chances.

Alongside individual ambition, collaboration can help you outsmart other players. Every decision contributes to the larger struggle for wealth, from developing businesses to choosing the right moment to merge and reinvest.

With its focus on investment, company expansion, mergers, and immediate payouts, Chartered: Building Amsterdam offers a tense contest of merchant strategy. Build your influence across the city, read the competition, and pursue one clear goal: become the wealthiest merchant of Amsterdam.