Scarface 1920

About this board game

Scarface 1920 is a 2023 board game for 1–4 players, with games lasting about 150 minutes. Set in Chicago during the Roaring Twenties, it places you at the head of a criminal gang fighting to rule the city during Prohibition.

Liquor is illegal, and the underworld is ready to seize the opportunity. Build your criminal empire by claiming territory, expanding racketeering, running bootlegging operations, bribing city officials, and making sure the coppers are on your side.

Scarface 1920 combines worker placement and deck-building in a struggle for influence, power, money, and control. Recruit new associates, make deals, fill Chicago’s streets with your thugs, improve your headquarters, and take on dirty jobs as you grow your gang.

• Recruit associates and develop your gang through deck-building.
• Use worker placement to carry out criminal operations and expand your influence.
• Control territory and grow your racketeering and bootlegging activities.
• Bribe officials, work with the coppers, and enhance your headquarters.

Each gang has a distinct set of abilities represented by its boss, giving you a different route to victory from game to game. The city is contested by rival gangs with the same ambition: to build a criminal empire and dominate gangland.

Rival criminals are not the only threat. Eliot Ness and his Feds are determined to bring your operation down, adding another challenge to every attempt at expansion. In Scarface 1920, every deal, territory, and dirty job contributes to the dangerous race for control of Chicago.