Monopoly: Star Wars

Classic Monopoly rules, rebuilt around places from the Star Wars saga.

Designer: (Uncredited)
Published by: Hasbro
Editions by: Parker Brothers

Monopoly: Star Wars from 1997 keeps the classic recipe of rolling, buying, trading and bankrupting your friends, and only swaps the setting for the Star Wars universe. Instead of streets you buy up places from the saga and build on them, and the usual Monopoly arguments about rent, deals and who owes whom simply happen in a galaxy far away. If you know Monopoly, nothing here will surprise you, and that is the point: the rules are the old ones in a new costume. It runs from two up to eight players, with four as the comfortable middle, and like every Monopoly it lasts as long as the table's patience does.

Monopoly rules with a Star Wars settingBuy, trade and build on saga locationsTwo to eight players

Who it's for

You already like Monopoly and want a version that suits a Star Wars household, for example with kids who know the films better than you do.

Not for you if…

You never warmed to Monopoly itself. The theme changes the look, not the luck-heavy, long-running game underneath.

Vibe's take

Exactly as friendly and exactly as ruthless as any Monopoly: a lot of dice, a lot of haggling, and one person slowly owning everything. The Star Wars skin gives the trash talk a better vocabulary.