The Game
- Party game
- 3–8 players
- 12+
- 30 minutes
Watch the rules video Quick rules (PDF) Where to buy
As a user of Status (the largest social network in the world), your goal is to become the most popular User on the web, and show off the most Friends! Become the Troll—that irreverent provocateur—and tag the other Users with your embarrassing posts! Your rivals don’t want to be the laughing stock of the web for sure, and won’t hesitate to try their best to win the Discussion. They’ll even be willing to pay for the support of other Users! You just have to hope that in their rush they’ll make a mistake: then you can show off and grow your popularity! But be careful: sooner or later you’ll be tagged too…
Are you sure you want to risk your reputation to get the last word?
- Challenges – Duel with other Users to the last Like and grow your popularity!
- Alliances – Help other Users to win difficult challenges – in exchange for a reward, of course!
- Rhythm – Join the action at any time and press your advantage. Timing is everything!
- Irony – Take the roles of the most embarrassing personalities of the Web.
- Fun – Develop more and more effective strategies and combos, and leave your adversaries astonished!
Components
2 Walls:
– 1 Keyboard (used by the Troll and his/her Allies)
– 1 Tag (used by the Tagged User and his/her Allies)
109 Cards:
– 1 deck of 25 Friend cards
– 1 deck of 84 cards made by 65 Post cards and 19 Profile cards
30 Fans 
, Like/Loser tokens such as ‘coins’
You know what? During the game you won’t have to throw the box away. The bottom of the box will be part of the components itself! It will contain all the Fans, being identified as ‘the Web’.
Rules
Reading the rulebook is too boring? Want to start playing right now?
Well, here are the quick rules!
Too lazy even for the quick rules? Lucky you, we thought of you too… Here is the rules video!
If you didn’t stop reading the upper row, congratulations!
You deserve the full rulebook! You can download the full rules (PDF) or open it from the box below.
If you are a multilanguage geek you can also download the Dutch rules or the Italian rules.
Any doubt? Read the FAQs Where to buy
Mission
Like – The Social Game comes from the combination of a psycho-geek and an unconventional engineer.
Freedom, engagement and interaction are the pillars on which the whole gameplay is based.
The ‘social network’ setting allows the players to look at our kind of society in a lightly ironic way.
As authors, we aim to bring the ‘Y Generation’ (used to social life on the internet) around a table to share a game experience. We want to show them how ‘social’ can be a real game experience, more than a virtual one.
The subtitle ‘The Social Game’ itself suggests a double meaning: on the one hand the setting and, above all, on the other hand the social interaction among the players.
Starting from a long tradition of Role Playing Games, as game designers we chose to make a game in which anyone could join the action anytime. Such game could be eventually appreciated by ‘hard-core gamers’ – who love to challenge themselves by playing in a strategic way – and, above all, by ‘casual gamers’. The latter, indeed, prefer to spend a night with friends just to have fun, without being bored by learning a long list of rules; not to speak about the long time waiting for other players’ plays during the game.
We decided to design a boardgame as simple as possible, which could entertain the players by providing them a fun night. Timing, luck and light strategy will mix up, creating extremely engaging games.
No doubt it is a risky choice, which scares most experienced gamers, but it is intended to go beyond the traditional boardgames world, involving the broadest casual gamers community.
