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You place your die face down on the factory you want. Others do the same. Then everyone reveals simultaneously, and whoever has the highest number takes the spot. The others are left to watch, gritting their teeth.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
Build an industrial empire in a world of airships and factories
Designed and illustrated by Yog Akase, Compania transports you to a fantasy-industrial setting where you lead a burgeoning company. The objective is simple: become the wealthiest magnate in the realm. Published by Level 99 Games and also distributed by Asobition and Board Zeppelin, this management game combines worker placement mechanics with a system of simultaneous hidden dice auctions.
Each turn, you choose where to send your workers by placing dice face down on action spaces. When everyone has decided, they are revealed: the highest die wins the space, the others return empty-handed. You use workers to construct buildings, buy land, develop factories, and create airship networks to transport goods. Manage resources, generate income, and plan carefully: every die played is a gamble.
What they say abroad
"Take on the role of a fledgling proprietor in Compania, and build your company to become the wealthiest in the land!"
— Asobition (アソビション)
The game knows how to transform simple worker placement into a psychological duel, round after round.
— FroGames
Compania
The game includes an official solo mode that simulates opponents with a bot system. The experience works and maintains the management challenge, but completely loses the psychological tension of simultaneous reveal and bluffing that are the heart of multiplayer. It remains a good optimization puzzle for those who love solo management games.
FrogScore · FroGames editorial rating · based on rules, international reviews, and play sessionsThe magnate's tools
What you use to build your empire
Worker dice
Each die represents a worker you send to an action. You place it face down, then reveal it: if the value is the highest, you win the space. Otherwise, you're out. Managing how many dice to spend and where is the core of the game.
Company buildings
Build factories, warehouses, and offices to increase your company's income. Each building unlocks new production capabilities and brings you closer to victory. Expanding costs resources, but without buildings, you fall behind.
Airship network
Airships transport goods between your properties and generate victory points. Creating efficient air links is one of the winning strategies, but it requires investment and territorial planning.
Land and properties
You purchase land plots to expand your company. Each plot can house buildings or serve as a node for airships. The more land you control, the more options you have, but it costs liquidity that you might need elsewhere.
Come si gioca
Video dimostrativo di gameplay.
🎲How to PlayThe rules in four steps▼
How to Play
The flow of each round
Each turn follows a four-phase structure: hidden placement, reveal, action resolution, income.
All players simultaneously choose where to send their workers, placing dice face down on the action spaces of the central board. No one knows what others have played. Manage your hand of dice and decide where to take risks.
All dice are turned over at the same time. For each contested space, the die with the highest value wins: that player takes the action, the others retrieve their dice without gaining anything. Auctions are resolved in priority order printed on the board.
Those who won the auctions perform their actions: building structures, buying land, developing factories, placing airships, purchasing improvement cards. Each action costs resources and modifies your business engine. Those who were left out wait for the next round.
Buildings generate income based on their configuration. You update your resources, retrieve dice from your reserve, and prepare your hand for the next turn. Check if anyone has reached the victory threshold, otherwise, return to phase 1.
⏱️Your First GameThe chronicle, moment by moment▼
A game in five moments
What happens at the table
Not the rules. The experience.
Company Setup
Everyone starts with a few resources and a handful of worker dice. You observe the central board, the available action spaces, the land to buy. The table is silent: everyone studies their first moves. You decide where to invest immediately and where to wait for the next turn. The tension starts from the very first placement.
First Auctions
You place your die face down on the factory you want to build. Others do the same. The reveal is simultaneous: you placed a 4, someone else a 5. They get it, you're out. Your worker returns to the reserve having done nothing. You immediately understand that every choice is a gamble.
Engine Building
Mid-game, your business engine starts running: you have buildings that generate income, airships connecting properties, strategic land. Each round you must decide whether to expand further or consolidate your positions. Others are doing the same, and auctions become more aggressive.
The Ultimate Bluff
You see an action space you desperately need. You know an opponent wants it too. You choose a medium die hoping they won't risk their high die. The reveal: you played a 5, they a 3. You won without wasting your best die. Or you misread it and someone else played a 6. This is Compania.
Final Count
The game ends when someone reaches the wealth objective or the rounds run out. You sum victory points from buildings, airships, trade networks. Whoever best optimized their empire wins. Lost auctions in key turns weigh on the final result.
🐸What to know beforehandThree honest things, from friends▼
What to know beforehand
Three things you need to consider
Lost auctions hurt
When your die loses an auction, that worker does nothing for the entire round. With few dice in hand, being left out of two or three consecutive auctions completely blocks you. It requires the ability to read opponents and manage risk: always playing high dice depletes them, always playing low dice makes you lose key spaces.
Downtime with 5-6 players
The game scales up to 6 players, but with full tables, the downtime between your turns lengthens. Simultaneous placement helps, but action resolution is sequential and can create waiting times. Better with 3-4 players if you want a fast pace.
Medium learning curve
Basic rules can be explained in 15 minutes, but understanding which buildings to construct, when to expand, how to optimize your engine, and especially how to read others' intentions requires at least 2-3 games. It's not as immediate as a pure gateway game, but not a heavy one either: it sits in the middle.
🏆Victory and defeatWhat the ending rewards▼
How it ends
How to win and how to lose
The game ends when a player reaches the predetermined wealth threshold or the available rounds run out. The player with the most victory points wins.
Victory
- Be the first to reach the target wealth value (varies depending on the number of players)
- Have the highest score at the end of the last round, totaling buildings, airships, trade networks, and bonuses
- Optimize your business engine to generate constant income and build more resources than your opponents
Defeat or Elimination
- Run out of liquidity and winning dice, being locked out of auctions for consecutive turns
- Expand too early without consolidating income, running out of resources in the final rounds
- Lose key auctions for the best buildings or strategic land, leaving opponents in control of the board
Compania is a pure management game with poker-like tension: every hidden die is a silent declaration of war. If you love worker placement but want more interaction and less parallel solitaire, this is your game.
💬Frequently Asked QuestionsQuick answers before checkout▼
Frequently Asked Questions
FAQ about Compania
What mechanics does Compania use?
The game combines worker placement with hidden dice placement, simultaneous sealed bid auctions, hand management, engine building, and end-game bonuses. The core is the auction: you place dice face down, reveal them all at once, and the player with the highest value wins the space.
Is it suitable for those who have never played management games?
Compania has a medium weight (2.8/5 on BGG) and requires experience with worker placement and resource management. The rules are quick to learn, but optimizing the business engine and reading opponents in auctions requires practice. It's not a pure gateway game: it's better to try lighter titles first if you're new to the genre.
How does solo play work?
There is an official solo mode that uses a bot system to simulate opponents. It maintains the management challenge and engine optimization, but completely loses the psychological tension of bluffing and simultaneous reveal which are the heart of multiplayer. It works as an optimization puzzle, not as a complete experience.
With how many players does it work best?
It scales from 1 to 6, but the best experience is with 3-4 players. With 2, it loses some of the competition for spaces, with 5-6, downtime increases and the game becomes slower. At 4, you have the right mix of tension, contained downtime, and competitive auctions.
Is it available in Italian?
This edition is in English. The components include text on cards and the board, so a basic knowledge of English or a translated rulebook reference is needed. There are currently no official Italian editions.
The people behind the game
Who invented it, who designed it, who publishes it — and what else they've done.
Compania is a strategic management game for 1-6 players, ages 10+, lasting 60-90 minutes. Designed by Yog Akase and published by Level 99 Games, it combines worker placement, simultaneous hidden dice auctions, and engine building in a fantasy-industrial setting. Build buildings, buy land, develop factories, and create airship networks to transport goods and accumulate wealth. The secret dice placement system creates psychological tension: each worker is an auction to win. Includes official solo mode. Available on FroGames.it.
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