Fantastic Factories*
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Fantastic Factories is a dice-placement and engine-building game in which you race to build the most efficient set of factories. For 1 to 5 players aged 14 and up, 45 to 60 minutes – with little downtime, since everyone rolls and builds simultaneously.
How it plays
Each round has two phases. In the market you take a blueprint for free or pay to hire a contractor who provides resources or extra dice. In the work phase everyone rolls at once and places dice as workers into their built factories: mine metal, generate energy, fund blueprints or manufacture goods. Training facilities let you tweak dice values, and the order of placements unlocks long action chains. The first player to reach twelve goods or ten buildings triggers the end.
Who is it for?
Fans of Race for the Galaxy and dice-worker games who want a brisk, well-scaling strategy game with a solo mode. The expansions Manufactions and Subterfuge add contracts and secret agendas.
- 👥 1 - 5 Players
- ⏱️ 45 - 60 Minutes
- 🧒 14+ years old
- 🧩 Easy to learn
* We like Fantastic Factories so much that we recommend it in the following board game recommendation lists 2026
- Position 60 in Best games released at SPIEL 2021 in Essen
- Position 5 in The Best Board Games with Architects
- Position 3 in The Best Board Games with Engineers
- Position 5 in The Best Board Games with Robots
- Position 18 in The best dice games to play solo (Solitaire)
- Position 4 in The best games from Strohmann Games 🇩🇪🏢
- Position 21 in The best games where you can re-roll or lock dice 🎲
- Position 26 in The best games with alternating starting player each round
- Position 4 in The best games with Worker Placement with dice instead of figures
- Position 4 in The best industrial and manufacturing board, card & dice games 🏭
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