Iberian Gauge

Iberian Gauge is a railway game about the hard business of laying track across mountains in Spain and Portugal. The game alternates between two phases. In stock rounds you buy shares in competing railroad companies, and in operating rounds each share lets its owner build track for that company, in the order the shares were bought. The terrain is brutal and building is expensive, so leasing track from another company is a smart way to save money. But a company that stops expanding sees its stock value fall, and that can ruin its investors. You are an investor first and a track layer second, and every move helps or hurts someone else's wallet. If you like economic railway games, this is a 90-minute taste of that world.