For the time being, let’s not touch upon the implied statement here that your spouse is a “servant”, shall we? Finally, you have an estate Caretaker who has a square base. Servants are found in round bases, and your spouse has a circular base with spikes. There is a neat system here where there are a bunch of figures that can be interchangeably placed in different shaped bases. The board has tracks to measure your score, your Creepiness, your Insanity as well as entries in your Journal. Make the Compulsion, Maladjustment, and Experiment decks.Įach player gets all their colored bits, an Estate board, a player aid card and a Storage Shed Estate tile. Each of the three scenarios has its own storage box, and all of the specific bits you need for said scenario are found within. To get started, choose the desired scenario (three different ones in my game) and set up the board on the table, boot up the app/website for the game, input the number of players and the chosen scenario, open the Village Chronicle up to the directed page, and then place the book in the gap found in the middle of the board pieces in the table. If the gist of the story sounds good, read on… there’s a lot going on in this game! (And get used to reading, because there’s a lot of reading in this game… I have read various places online that there may be as much as 160,000 words written for this game!)
If you’re one of those folks who doesn’t like board games with an app – then you’re done here. This description might be enough to tell you what you need. So, it will be a bit like a Legacy-style game where you carry some information over between generations, but in many ways, you get to start over each time too!
Essentially, you play three games where not much other than the Score on the track and some Journal entries pass between generations. The game will be played over three generations (each with 3 rounds: the Early, Middle and Late years of your life). The My Father’s Work app acts as the storybook, and you will need to interact with it during each round of play.“ The player with the most points at the end of three generations wins and becomes the most revered, feared, ingenious scientist the world has ever known!ĭuring the course of the game, players will make choices that directly affect the fate of the small village represented by a book of town building layouts called the Village Chronicle. Players earn points by completing experiments, aiding the town in its endeavors, upgrading their macabre estates, and hopefully completing their father’s masterwork.īut they have to balance study and active experimentation because at the end of each generation, all of their experiments and resources are lost to time until their child begins again with only the “Journaled Knowledge and Estate” they have willed to them - and since the game is played over the course of three generations, it is inevitable that the players will rouse the townsfolk to form angry mobs or spiral into insanity from the ethically dubious works they have created.
Per the front page of the rulebook: “ In My Father’s Work, players are competing mad scientists entrusted with a page from their father’s journal and a large estate in which to perform their devious experiments.
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