I highly suggest you check it out.Punch Card Games is looking for an experienced game developer! Join our team and help us push the limits of PC, console, and mobile game development, creating amazing experiences for players. I think this game offers low-stress competition, while still providing a decent challenge for the more experienced player. I literally bought my 1955 copy on ebay for $7, I'm sure you can find it in garage sales for cheaper and I believe Target sells the newest version for about $20-$30 (MUCH cheaper than buying Catan at your FLGS).Ĭareers allows you to introduce complex rules in a seemingly simplistic game. You arrive at the entrance to the 'quest,' then you have to meet the requirements to perform that quest ($$$, past experience, w/e) and then you go on that quest in order gain the achievements. Careers is all about these kinds of quests.

By side quest, I mean you have to complete a different achievement that is off the 'main path' of the game. With some games (Shadows over Camelot comes to mind) you have to work on side quests in order to win the game. Whip out a box like Agricola that ways 20 pounds and a non-boardgamer is going to freeze like a deer in the headlights. In all these games, you set a preliminary goal and you spend the rest of the game trying to achieve it in the fastest, most point-winning way possible.

The Strategic Formula that a player must figure out at the beginning of a game sets an individualized goal not unlike popular designer games like the tickets in Ticket to Ride or constructing buildings in Citadels. Depending on the year of the version you buy, you can be a farmer, a business exec, a sailor, an astronaut, a politician and more. With Careers, you pick different career paths. If you are introducing a non-boardgamer (or a non-nerd) to strategic thinking, Lovecraftian Arkham Asylum or Medieval Settlers of Catan can be a major turn off. What Careers has in its favor are five main things:Īccessible theme.

It is a roll and move game, but there are cards that allow you to have greater control regarding how you will move your mans, without banking on the roll of dice. The Strategy Formula is a prediction of how many happiness points, fame points, and thousands of dollars you think you can collect by completing different career tracks. The objective of Careers is to meet your 'Strategy Formula' goal. I describe Careers to new players as 'It's like Monopoly and Life combined, without all the shitty parts.' Most boring title ever, right? And a PB game to boot? I'm sure a lot of you are rolling your eyes. I've wanted to spread the good news about Careers for a long time, but it's never worthwhile when you're the 254th commenter on a popular thread, like this one.Ĭareers is the Parker Brothers game of optional goals.

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