Boardgames

Tabletop Inc.

Hire specialists, craft components, build games, and anticipate rivals in an inventive worker placement challenge for 1–6 players.

120
minutes

1 - 6
player(s)

Medium Heavy

Tabletop Inc. board game cover

About this board game

Tabletop Inc is a worker placement board game for 1–6 players, with an approximately 120-minute play time, set in an alternate 1970s where humans and Mumans have co-existed for millennia.

As the CEO of a board game production company, you will manage a fabulous game factory and pursue the perfect mix of artwork, components, and mechanisms. The goal is to publish popular games, earn prestigious tabletop awards, and gain victory points.

On your turn, place workers in specific jobs, hire Specialist employees with unique powers, craft components, manufacture mechanisms, build board games, or submit your creations for awards. This is a game about making games, with each decision contributing to your publishing ambitions.

  • Worker placement: Assign workers across the factory to develop your company.
  • Game production: Combine artwork, components, and mechanisms to build board games.
  • Specialists: Hire employees who provide unique powers.
  • Prediction and interaction: Pay attention to opponents and anticipate their actions for rewards.
  • Multiple paths to victory: Compete for popularity, tabletop awards, and victory points.

Tabletop Inc offers a fresh approach to worker placement, rewarding players who carefully observe the table and predict what their opponents will do. It is quick to learn while offering rich gameplay depth.

Designed for replayability, Tabletop Inc supports a wide player count and features nearly 70,000 unique starting conditions. In this alternate golden age of tabletop gaming, thoughtful planning and timely production can help your company publish the greatest games in the world.