New to Kickstarter – Chocolate Factory

Chocolate Factory is the next game to hit Kickstarter from Alley Cat Games (Dice Hospital, Coral Islands and Pocket Pharma).

Chocolate Factory is a 1-4 player mid-weight economic simulation game about running a chocolate factory, designed by Matthew Dunstan and Brett Gilbert.

Chocolate Factory - The Game

Players take on the role of master chocolatiers in the early 20th century, making chocolate and selling them to retailers and local corner shops for victory points. In Chocolate Factory, each player manages their own factory board with a pushable conveyor belt that players use to move chocolates through their factory. Players can also upgrade their factory with new machines and factory parts to perform new actions.

Actions can involve upgrading chocolate to the next stage and converting one type of chocolate to another. Each turn players will draft factory parts and specialists in to their factory. Any factory parts drafted will be placed on the player’s factory board immediately and the specialists give the player one off abilities and access to sell chocolates to one of the retailers for points.

After the draft, players “push” cocoa three times using their conveyor belt. At each “push” the player can use coal to activate their factory parts to convert cocoa in to chocolate pieces, then chocolate pieces in to other chocolate. The chocolate can then be sold to either the retailers (depending on the specialist drafted) or the local corner shop. Play continues this way until the end of the last round with the player with the most points being the winner.