Mobile Markets

You run a smartphone company through one business year, and the player with the most profit when the year ends wins. Customers of different types wait in regions around the world, each wanting certain features at a certain price, and your phones must reach them before a rival's do. Each round you lay out a plan for the coming quarter, choosing how much goes to research, marketing, production and sales, and everyone plans at once. Then the plans are carried out in an order set by the board: you develop technologies, campaign in regions, build phones and finally sell them to whichever customers your phone satisfies. Money made funds the next quarter. A standalone follow-up to Smartphone Inc. with more choices and sharper competition, in about an hour. Best at 2 or 3 for people who like economic games without a long rulebook, and it includes a solo mode.