This game brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "family fortunes", as your task is to increase your family's fortune and standing in society as we lead you on an adventure across time and space. Your journey may take you to places such as:
Whichever periods you visit, how you make your fame and fortune is up to you. You will have to make decisions about the future of your family from which business you will set up to what families you want your children to marry into.
Will you play it safe and invest time and money in a home-grown family business? And if you do, how will you survive the lean times? How about looking to the future and ensuring your children get a good education? Or designing the next great invention to change the world? Or go gambling? Maybe move your entire family to a foreign land in search of your fortune? Or just rob the local bank - risking half your family ending up in jail!
This action packed game focuses on strategy and risk management as you develop and deliver your family strategy in a rolling plan over several centuries. However, the myriad of choices and activities available to you will call upon the skills of all your family members - from knowledge of historic events to problem solving, creativity and physical endurance.
At the start of each era, you will be advised by a costumed character what has happened to your family since the end of the last era - based both on the decisions you made and the course of history. You will be taken to a new time (and possibly place) to pick up the story and a new set of adventures.
There are many choices in this adventure which you decide upon as a team, but which you act upon as individuals at the various activity stations around the room. So trust, efficient communication and the ability to refine strategies at a moments notice are all essential.
The winning team, quite simply, is the one that realizes the greatest increase in both its fortune and standing in society.