Tom, I have the pleasure of sharing a relationship with this game’s creator, and this review was the absolute funniest thing to experience. Cathartic almost. You’ve expressed every sentiment I’ve had about the game (and the creator)

Oh hi Tom! This is "The Room" of boardgames. This is tearing me apart.

Kinda torn here, I like me some good box inserts.

Can't believe there was a successful Kickstarter campaign for this project. In the appeal video, the designer leads off with "You look at all the games out there, and they're all politically correct ... there's no winners and losers." I don't even know where to start with that one.

I assumed that the whole game was designed to be an anti-capitalist parable, and intentionally knocked-off Monopoly as a meta joke in reference to its inspiration, The Landlord's Game, which was itself created to teach about the dangers of monopolization. But then I read the website and realized none of that's true.

"The only winning move is not to play."

We're coming up on 10 years since this was published, meaning Tom will have to talk about this game again in his Lookback videos...

The stock price mechanic is lifted straight from the Stock Market Game from the 1960s. The stock price movement squares even look the same.

The pill bottle was just the icing on the cake.

This was one of the actual oneupmanship Kickstarter Stretch Goals: "At $10,000 - Are you kidding me? We'll take the money and run!"

As far as I’m concerned this is a KZfaq classic.

I am really glad you did this review. It has brought me such joy over the years. I watch it at least once a week.

This is, perhaps, the best review that Tom has ever done. Period. At the end where he loses it and throws the box, I could just watch that and it would still be the Best. Review. Ever. I know you wasted your time Tom but, it was worth it for us :)

I don't know why everyone is trying to defend the designer in these comments. This guy sent Tom the game to get it reviewed, its not like this was the designers private game design that he only plays with his friends and then Tom went and acquired a copy of it with the sole purpose of calling the designer a moron. He willingly put his design up for public scrutiny, and scrutiny was given.

Hey, wussy doesn't start with p.....ohhhhhh...

"Pay $1,000 fine or do 25 pushups as a penance. I guess I'll pay the money." Classic Vasel quote. On par with "You challenge me to a game of knuckles, you automatically win, buddy."

Don't confuse the designer's sociopathic and twisted values for attempts at humor.

some of those cards would be considered hazing on most college campuses, some raw bully sounding stuff too! I am glad you let them have it Tom, the game designer really needs to get out more. sounds like monopoly and cut throat caverns had a baby and Burnie Madoff was the play tester/publisher.

Wow, angry Tom at the end there! I felt genuine fear then! :P

17:50... worth watching for that moment Vasel. Wow

I always come back to watch this video Tom, cause since i saw it i thought i can do better than that, and i ve been trying in my spare time to do it. I am testing my game today i hope it does well thank you for this video and all your effort, its the passion that you had in this video that inspired me. thank you.

Loved the energy. Nice one Tom!

The tone of your voice when you said "I won't do that" about swallowing the mystery pill had me laughing. Great review!

I've been working on a game myself. At the moment, it's still in rough draft/test play phase. And by rough draft test play phase, I mean that I have been using playing cards in sleeves with Post It notes for the new information. From what I have seen of Oneupmanship, those Post It notes are a massive step up. I have to admit that I'm glad that Tom reviewed this if only so it can serve as a lesson to game designers out there about what not to do.

I'm so confused, why are there a good amount of people defending this game in the comments? I don't even play board games, but it doesn't take much more than basic logic and thinking skills to see how absurdly broken and unbalanced this game is. It doesn't matter if its self published, a poorly designed piece of garbage that isn't worth your time is a poorly designed piece of garbage that isn't worth your time. It doesn't matter how hard someone tried in the slightest if this is the end result.

This is the Big Rigs of boardgames.

Whenever I’m working a game design and get stuck or frustrated, I watch this review.

Why couldn't this have been a Miami Dice review? Sam would have reached through the camera and strangled the designers.

Excellent video Tom. I love that Tom said several times he wasn't kidding about the rules. I thought he was kidding a few times before I remembered. Steal someone's stocks! Buy as much as you want for the lowest and KEEP THE CARD! Bankrupt to make other player get bankrupt!? I was also frightened by your anger at the end. I can't imagine how angry my friends and I would be if we had played this game. I've only gotten mad at 2 games ever and it was something similar to "if this one thing happens, you win the entire game".

I am seriously stunned here. Someone actually may of topped my attempt at coming up with the World's Worst Boardgame (W.W.B), at having something worse. I am not sure what else can be said here about it.

I hope to see this game in the intro to the next "Board Game Breakfast" ....being placed in the toaster....or microwave.

Time: forever Gametype: Not LOL that is great!

Whenever I have a bad day I come back & watch this review (As well the Bearded Bard's review of Heroquest) to make myself feel better!

The stockmarket slider mechanic, complete with stocks that go up and stocks that go down indifferent directions, is direct from John Sands "Stock Market Game."

Quote from the website: Patricia continues: "We really got into it. My husband (a CPA and head of purchasing for the town of Ridgefield) drew a nasty money card that made us all move to the left and play each other's hand. I inherited his awful hand with zero stock and hardly any money, then he promptly forgot who was who and moved my piece on his turn. I didn't discover it until my turn. My daughter made him go back and undo everything he did on that turn (he bought stock and all kinds of things). It was pretty funny. And that is one of the game's charms, it brings out "fun" things in people. How the hell is that bringing the fun out in people? www.oneupmanship.com/

7 dislikes from the designer and family lol

Tom, what have you done! This review could turn this game into a cult success. Like an Ed Wood movie. It's so bad you have to play it once.

Read in AVGN music tone :He rather have monopoly, playing checks with thumbtacks into his ears, he is the angriest boardgamer you've ever heard, he is the angry monopoly nerd, he is the angry boardgame nerd!

HAHAHA. Ahhh Just came across this video. Tom, I have seen a lot of your videos over the years (although I missed this one) and asides from being very entertaining, informative and an inspiration to have turned your own passion into a lifestyle and livelihood, the things you say actually influence me in the way I try to run my games website. I also recently made a game called Sixzee. One of the main things I kept in mind was to give players interesting choices throughout the game. This is something you often talk about. Give players interesting choices. So I want to say thank you: thanks!

They want $50 for that POS?!?!? I mean you can buy monopoly all day long for less than $15. You can buy Agricola, Puerto Rico, Dominion, etc. for less than what they want for this! The sad thing is this is what $5,000 from kickstarter bought you! REALLY!!!!! $5,000!!!!! OMG!!!! What did he spend the $5,000 on?!?!? Hey bottom line, just because it sounds cool on kickstarter doesn't mean it's going to be cool! Only contribute to time tested kickstarters, like....oh....IKD.......DICETOWER! Thanks again Tom for a honest review.

17:11 Even the newer video games that are retro styled to look like they're from an 8 bit or 16 bit console apply modern game design. The good ones, at least.

Is it OK that I'm more looking forward to these reviews from Tom than the ones of actual games? :P

Come on Vasel. Tell us how you really feel!

Thanks Tom! This was the most entertaining review I've seen in a while.

I'm sure there is a serious health code violation with including those "bitter pills". Not to mention I didn't see a single choaking hazard label for the dice and other small objects in the game. This is not only the worst game ever but a lawsuit just waiting to happen. What makes me think he didn't incorporate before releasing this game?

I watch this review a couple times a year I love it so much.

Excellent review, Tom. I needed a laugh today and this was perfect.

I love how much effort you put into this review, especially the component drop. Still, you put more effort in than the designer.

Tom lays the smack down. Always love these type of reviews. :)

Hahaha that was terrible. Not the review, but the game! I think doing the review was a great move and made so many good points that I could not even count them. These lessons are occasionally needed.

Hmmm, price is down to $30 on amazon. Was $50. Could it be time to buy this before it goes out of print?!

That was epic. Great to watch.

Best Review Ever (but actually, I quite like the box....)

Not even worth proper component drop...

I feel like the designer was trying to make Wolf of Wall Street into a board game that would appeal to the most bro of frat guys and failed horribly.

The fact that this game was produced gives me a lot of hope that one of my ideas may be a real game someday. If that guys publisher needs something to make up for this one, tell them to give me a call.

This is my favorite game, I play it 12 times a day, 12 days a week. So much fun! Great component quality!

Even the money and cards in Monopoly's WWII pack looked nicer than the ones here, and _those_ were plain and cheap _on purpose_ because of the war shortages.

Pills? ...PILLS?! How did this game even make it past the FDA, let alone a publishing house!

That freak out at the end. Beautiful.

I laughed the entire way through this video. Especially towards the end where Tom starts losing it... and the Pacman line? Haha gold!

I REALLY wanna become a Board/Card game designer so bad when I get older so thanks for this kind of warning video!

I am just curious to know what game Tom considers to be worse... this one or the other review he did on the game Rough?

So, did they even bother to change the stock values for the game they ripped off. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3887/stock-market-game

Every so often I come back to this video and have a laugh.

I've been looking for a good stock market game! So this, Acquire, or Airlines of Europe?

the component quality is somewhat like splotter. looking good.

Looking the website now, in 2021 and looka like they have 2 brand new games: wise up and one up. Looks like they are recomended for solving "cabin fever" and "social isolation" problems due to covid. We need an Miami Dice about that!

I do have to ask: Are the bitter pills actually a physical good included with the game? I've seen conflicting evidence about this and I find it utterly fascinating. I have no intention of trying to buy the game for myself to find out for reasons this video makes abundantly clear, but I am intrigued nonetheless.

wait: This deluxe version includes 4 custom pawns, a Scarlet Letter "B" pin, and a vial of "Bitter Pills". Nice package. Wait a sec... we're also going to throw in a limited-edition "Man Up." t-shirt. Deluxe edition. It's a deluxe edition... oh god.

This was absolutely brilliant. How to annihilate something in a review without coming across a dick head. Well done :).

Umm, Tom... Did you really play this with Sam? I... would like to hear his opinion on this "game" too. Please. I consider offering a payment. Please :O

Length: Forever Game Type: Not Best part by far.

I clicked on this because of the subtitle. Was not disappointed. Then out of curiosity I checked to see if this was still on Amazon. One copy available from a third party. Asking $99.

Would be interesting to see what the publishers response is to this review

Thank You for this one. And I thought after the California vacation kickstarter it could not get worse, but it did. Very funny to watch but a shame that people think they could drop such a thing into the marked, That is actually very saddening.

No way of really knowing, but I almost think it was made just to troll Tom. Made for an excellent show either way though.

I think I wet myself! This needs to be his top review! Priceless!!!!

So would you recommend this game?

At first I thought it looked like a cheap monopoly clone then when I saw the components I thought I was caught in a time loop back to the 1970's - shudder

Best review since Vasco da Gama! You're awesome, Vasel!

Tom, I think you held back on that review a bit. Please tell us what you really think!

This is my favorite video ever

I hope I see this in a shop some day.

Tom. Thank you. Thank you so much for this.

I thought Tom was going to go all Incredible Hulk and flip his table after getting so angry after this game. This was great to see, if only because not only was it entertaining but hopefully educational to others, the only thing that could've made this even better were Sam and Zee getting in on this review.

Great review, with one disagreement. I think the minimalist design of the box is actually alright, it works for a dark-humored party game theme. However, everything inside of the box is embarrassingly awful. Terrible gameplay, sprinkled with lowbrow d-bag humor that I suspect might appeal to the Duck Dynasty audience.

This is hilarious, love the video

I'm already ordering my copy!

best component drop ever

Ouch! Thanks for taking one for the team, Tom.

Great review

Oh god, I laughed so hard when I saw the projected length

My question is, if you always have to buy shares at the current market value, then what are the dollar amounts on the board even for?

Why do I feel like this was meant to be a parody of bad game design? The similarities to Monopoly are too strong for me to believe this was legitimate.

I had to google this game to see if Tom got trolled or not but no he has a full website. The one positive review he quoted was from apparently is local town paper. which plugged a special discount coupon code so it smelled more of an infomercial of a sort. But a lot of great games came out of the 70s including Cosmic Encounter among others. I doubt this thing would have done well in the 70s either.

considering buying this game and improving the graphic design as a side project. Maybe mail it to Tom after ^_^ haha

Best review ever!!!!! This really made my day.

It's so odd. I don't think I've ever seen a product made by someone that exposes so much about the kind of person they are and the values have without providing at least a scrap of something to empathize with. I genuinely can't look at this game and feel anything but mild distaste for the game and its creator. Like, this game has a rule that means that the game only ends when people give up and don't want to play anymore, and most of the mechanics are indirectly based around the desire for domination and power over others. It's brutish, cruel, and extremely afraid of the idea of being vulnerable while in a position of power. I really, really dislike the implications of the victor being determined by who gets tired of being in the environment that this game puts you in last. Also, this game was recently featured in a youtube video by an account named Kam Sandwich, who is running a tournament for bad boardgames; your video here is one of the few sources of information on the game that I can find.

Did you play test this with Sam? Because I wish I could have been there. Also, has the designer responded? I wanna know if he's ok.. :-)