The Prodigals Club

The Prodigals Club is a worker-placement strategy game about proper Victorian gentlemen trying to ruin their own social standing. Each session combines two of three competitions—Possessions, Election, and Society—or uses all three for the complete challenge. Players send errand boys to action spaces, recruit eccentric helpers, and play cards whose effects ripple between modules: a spectacular social blunder may also cost votes, while disposing of an estate can change another track. Because victory is determined by your least successful competition, racing to the bottom in one area is never enough; every decision must keep the other scandals moving. Variable board sides, interaction between players, and the option to combine the game with Last Will give this dryly comic design unusual range. It is fully standalone.