Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Build Bengal’s railway economy by routing trains, hauling crates, fulfilling contracts, and backing the right industrial ventures.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Contracts
Complete specific requirements to earn rewards, income, or victory points.
Resource to Move
Use Resource to Move as a recurring structure for player decisions and resolution.
Movement Points
Spend a movement allowance across spaces with different costs.
Moving Multiple Units
Activate or move several pieces together as a group.
Read the full game description
Movers & Shakers places players in late nineteenth-century Bengal as railway investors connecting Benares and Calcutta. Over two rounds, players place action cards into shared slots, operate trains with limited movement, load and deliver goods, fulfill contracts, and invest in ventures that reshape the economic race. Because trains and routes are shared, every action alters the opportunities available to rivals. The result is a focused network-and-logistics game in which timing, ownership, and the value of money are inseparable.
