Sparks Robot Factory Strategy Board Game

About this product

Bring a busy robot factory to life with colourful dice, clever upgrades and a loyal team of animal assistants.

Designed by Adrian Adamescu, Purluca Florin, Kjetil Svendsen and Kristian A Østby.

Draft dice, build robots, upgrade your factory and shape your strategy around your animal assistants.

Product Description

The robot factory is waiting for its next brilliant production manager. With loyal animal companions by your side, you will gather dice from the junkyard, improve your factory and construct mechanical creations ready to be brought to life with a spark.

Each player manages their own factory and takes turns as the active player. Play a production tile to claim a group of dice from the junkyard, while the other players each collect dice of their own. Everyone then acts simultaneously, using their dice to build robots or raise their factory level.

Completed robots help you advance along scoring tracks and may unlock power boxes that can be activated with sparks. Cogs give you even more options, allowing you to adjust dice, recruit assistants and shape your production plan.

At the beginning of the game, each player receives six animal assistants with unique abilities. Their different combinations encourage you to adapt your approach, while the advanced assistant draft gives experienced players more control over the team they build.

When all players have used their four production tiles, points are scored from completed robots, scoring tracks, factory upgrades, recruited assistants and other achievements. The player with the highest total wins.

Why you’ll love it

• Build your own robot factory: Complete robots, improve your production line and increase your factory level as the game progresses.
• Draft colourful dice: Choose dice from the junkyard and decide how best to use their colours and values.
• Helpful animal assistants: Begin with six assistants whose unique abilities help guide your strategy.
• Everyone plays together: Players use their collected dice simultaneously, keeping every turn active and engaging.
• Activate robot abilities: Use sparks to power completed robots and trigger their power-box effects.
• Flexible decisions: Spend cogs to adjust dice, ignore requirements or recruit additional assistants.
• Different challenges each game: Changing assistant combinations, upgrades and optional goal tiles create new strategic choices.
• Solo and multiplayer play: Run your factory alone or compete with up to three other players.

Quick Details

• Publisher: Alion Games
• Product type: Strategy board game
• Players: 1–4 players
• Recommended age: 12 years and older
• Playing time: Approximately 45 minutes
• Rules difficulty: Moderate
• Concentration: Focused
• Atmosphere: Relaxed
• Main gameplay: Dice drafting, factory upgrading and robot construction
• Objective: Earn the most points through scoring tracks, factory levels, assistants, completed robots, upgrades and other achievements
• Contents: 1 score board, 1 junkyard board, 4 player boards, 56 robot cards, 32 assistant cards, 44 dice, 1 dice bag, 22 sparks, 25 cogs, 4 level markers, 16 score markers, 8 bonus tiles, 16 production tiles, 32 upgrade tiles, 6 goal tiles and 1 first-player marker

Good to Know

• Simultaneous actions: After dice are selected, all players use their dice at the same time.
• Assistant variety: Each player begins with six assistants, and their unique abilities help shape that player’s approach.
• Advanced assistant draft: Players familiar with the game can draft their assistants for greater strategic control.
• Optional goal tiles: Goal tiles add extra end-game objectives and scoring opportunities.
• Solo game included: The solo mode uses alternating regular and secondary turns, with adjustable difficulty through the number of goal tiles used.
• Important warning: Not suitable for children under 36 months due to small parts that may present a choking hazard.