STRIKE! The Game of Worker Rebellion
STRIKE! is a strategic, cooperative, and beautifully-illustrated board game for 2 - 4 players about building a city-wide rebellion to stop a mega-corporation's takeover.
STRIKE! was created in a collaboration between The TESA Collective, a publisher of games about changing the world, and Jobs with Justice, a leading labor rights organization. It is a game by, for, and about the labor movement.
STRIKE! - Overview Video
STRIKE! is fast-paced, it's tons of fun, and it raises awareness about the value of worker solidarity and collective action. What's not to love?
As soon as STRIKE! was done, I was ready to play again. The theme and mechanics blended together smoothly.
STRIKE! finds the perfect balance of strategic, cooperative gameplay and rich narrative. It has gorgeous artwork and thoughtful, humorous flavor.
Fast-playing and easy to learn. Replayable with different character options.
Players take on the role of the Strike Council to lead a city-wide rebellion against HappyCorp’s takeover in this cyberpunk setting.
Players will grow their ranks, mobilize their followers, and lead strikes around their City. As the Strike Council scores victories, they will gain the support of more allies and build new bases of support from the manufacturing district to the university.
Players collectively win by completing enough STRIKE! cards to score 15 victory points, and thereby kicking HappyCorp out of their city!
HappyCorp, like any nefarious corporation, can win in multiple ways: by scoring 15 victory points of its own, or by deploying all six of its MegaDrones across the city.
STRIKE! has a short rulebook. However, the combination of cooperative gameplay, as well as a tough opponent in HappyCorp, makes this a strategic game!
There are eight different characters to play as, and each character has unique powers and stats, giving them different ways to strategize.
And although each player takes on a unique character, players will also have to recruit more workers from other industries across the city - from the teachers to the steelworkers - to grow their rebellion and take powerful actions.
STRIKE! has a short rulebook. However, the combination of cooperative gameplay, as well as a tough opponent in HappyCorp, makes this a strategic game!
There are eight different characters to play as, and each character has unique powers and stats, giving them different ways to strategize.
And although each player takes on a unique character, players will also have to recruit more workers from other industries across the city - from the teachers to the steelworkers - to grow their rebellion and take powerful actions.
HappyCorp
At the end of each turn, HappyCorp will force you to draw a Commercial Break card. These will cause trouble for the Strike Council: such as remove workers from the board and deploy HappyCorp’s drones throughout the city.
But worst of all is HappyCorp’s dreaded MegaDrones. Whenever three regular drones are in a location together, they fuse into a MegaDrone! The creation of a MegaDrone causes HappyCorp to score points, and it blocks the players from completing strikes in that location.
2 - 4 Players | 45 - 60 Minutes
So do you have what it takes to lead the rebellion to defeat HappyCorp? Or will you soon be a smiling employee of HappyCity?
Reviews
Geekdad
"STRIKE! works well both as a cooperative game with a hint of a sci-fi theme, and as a conversation starter about the labor movement. It feels like there are plenty of games in which players are the corporations, maximizing profits and exploiting resources and labor, but not many that take the worker’s perspective into account. Strike! is a rare exception to that rule, and is worth checking out, especially if you like the theme."
Bert's Tabletop Games
"STRIKE! is a great intro to labor organizing. The game presents mechanics that really put the theme forward and give you the feeling of urgency that the labor movement has. I loved the difficulty levels that can be added to make the game harder for those who want to punch it up a notch. The game plays smoothly and has no obvious flaws in the mechanic. I would recommend this to everyone for great play and for great theme."
Uproxx
"Cooperative games can always slip into familiar problems of an 'alpha' gamer making decisions for everyone, but Strike seems designed to unlearn that and genuinely have players work together. There are a lot of ways to win using a variety of abilities to move around the board, but no one can truly finish the job alone. It’s a game that advocates for action to its core, and that includes encouraging more reluctant players to take part in the strategy and use their unique skills each turn."
Cardboard Republic
"Games about the labor rights movement of the last century are not particularly voluminous, and even fewer tackle the topic from a modern perspective. In an era of unprecedented wealth and social inequality the likes of which we haven’t seen in a century, STRIKE! aims to step into that void with an approachable game that’s one part social awareness, one part classic co-op, and one part dystopian warning."
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