Ladrillazo (2017)

Overview

Ladrillazo is a historical board game that takes you to the real estate bubble which took place in Spain on the first decade of the XXI Century. These were days of wine and roses: interpretation centers in every town, an airport in every city, 40-year mortgages, construction workers earning salaries like if they were Ministers, Olympic dreams, high-speed trains and golf resorts.

You'll play as the middleman, the one that tricks politicians and building companies into winning the citizen's favor and make some good profit out of some piece of land no one cares about.

Step by step, by speculating, you'll finally reach the upper echelons, will carry on monumental projects and your profit will grow more and more... Until the taxpayer's money runs out; then, the one who has been able to hide and park the bigger amount of their money in offshore tax havens, wins the game.

Ladrillazo includes more than 150 cards with real people and projects carefully documented which depict faithfully Spain during this time.

—description from the publisher (translated)

Ladrillazo es un juego histórico que te traslada a la burbuja inmobiliaria de la primera década del siglo XXI. Fueron días de vino y rosas, un centro de interpretación en cada pueblo, un aeropuerto en cada ciudad, hipotecas a 40 años, albañiles con sueldos de ministro, sueños olímpicos, AVEs y resorts con golf.

Tú serás el intermediario, el conseguidor, el que convence a un par de alcaldes y constructores locales para ganarse el favor del votante y sacar partido a unos terrenillos olvidados.

Poco a poco, especulando e hipotecando, llegarás a las más altas esferas políticas y empresariales, sacarás adelante proyectos faraónicos y tus beneficios serán cada vez mayores... hasta que se agote el dinero del país y gane la partida quien más haya conseguido esconder.

Ladrillazo incluye más de 150 personajes, lugares y proyectos reales cuidadosamente documentados que retratan fielmente la España de la época para contagiarte la fiebre del ladrillo.

—description from the publisher (Spanish)