Autobahn

Autobahn lets you run a piece of German postwar history as a bureaucrat with a budget. You are a director in the federal motorway organisation, and the game plays out over three periods from the end of World War II to the present day. After the second period, in 1990, reunification opens the east of the country to new network growth. Besides laying road you manage cross-border goods transport to neighbouring countries and build petrol stations to cash in on the new traffic. Contributing to a highway earns you seats on its board, which raise your budget at the start of each period, and your board members slowly advance. It is a heavy economic strategy game with pick-up-and-deliver and tech tracks, for one to four, around two and a half hours, and it is much more fun than it sounds.