Arkwright: Anniversary Edition 2025

In this new anniversary edition, the game has been streamlined and updated with a new rulebook and artwork. The game offers different play experiences through various modules, including “Spinning Mule” and “Waterframe” variants, as well as an East India module. It also features a solo mode, known as “Automa,” which allows a single player to compete against artificial opponents.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, merchants flying the English flag dominated the world’s oceans and international trade. The Navigation Acts prevented foreign competitors from directly intervening in trade between the Colonies and the English motherland.

In England, inventors and entrepreneurs like Richard Arkwright spurred the Industrial Revolution by developing serious machines like the Spinning Jenny and the Water Frame, and founding factories that would become the hallmark of the Industrial Revolution. The goods produced were valued by the citizens of the mother country, as well as by the English living in the Colonies. The East India Company used the return voyages to import exotic goods from the distant Colonies to England.

In Arkwright, 2–4 companies compete over several decades, striving to prosper. Your company must gain the trust of financially strong investors and thus increase its share price. Only the company stocks you own at the end of the game will bring victory. Therefore, it is important to transfer as many shares as possible from the bank vaults into your own possession in a timely manner.

Whoever has the most valuable shareholding will win the game. Selling goods increases the share price; however, if you let the share price continue to rise, you may only be able to afford to buy back a few shares from the banks later.