If your group has ever balked at paying silly money for a battered copy of Container, good news: the cult economic game is back in print and, for once, affordable. Allplay has reprinted the 2007 classic in a compact edition that lands at $39 (around £30) for the standard box, a long way from the hundreds it has commanded second-hand.
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See how it worksContainer is one of those games people talk about in hushed tones. There is no central bank setting prices and no fixed economy. Three to five players produce goods, ship containers to an island and sell them at auction. Every pound in the game comes from another player's pocket. The whole market is something the table builds and breaks together, which is why it has spent nearly two decades near the top of "best pure economic game" lists despite famously rough original artwork.
Originally published by Valley Games and designed by Franz-Benno Delonge, Thomas Ewert and Kevin Nesbitt, Container went out of print and drifted into grail-game territory, with copies regularly fetching three figures. A 2017 reissue helped a little, but Allplay's version is the one that finally drags it back to a sensible price, with a $99 deluxe edition and a small expansion for anyone who wants the full spread.
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Set up your group for freeIt is not a gateway game. There is real tension in pricing your goods and reading when a rival is desperate to sell, and it rewards a table that is happy to haggle and hold grudges. If you have a regular group that likes its economics cutthroat, this is one of the best the hobby has produced, finally back without the collector's tax.
Time to dust off the shipping lanes and rally your regular crew.
