Speakeasy (2025)

Tabletop Info hails Speakeasy as a stunning accomplishment, seamlessly blending intricate Area Control, Worker Placement, and Card Management systems with a rich Prohibition theme. It's named the "Big Box Game of the Year" for heavy, strategic Eurogame fans.

This video provides a preview of the physical board game Speakeasy, likely during its Kickstarter campaign. The content includes an initial evaluation, with the creator expressing confidence in the game's legitimacy.

Vital Lacerda's Speakeasy brilliantly blends heavy Euro engine-building with tense, interactive mob warfare and area control. It offers a satisfying, highly thematic challenge that avoids multiplayer solitaire.

The reviewer highly praises Speakeasy for its exceptional thematic integration and clever design, finding the high stakes and historical elements particularly engaging, and even considering it a contender for their favorite Lacerda game despite a minor early game progression quirk.

This video from Man vs Meeple offers a dedicated review of the physical board game Speakeasy. It evaluates the game's mechanics and overall experience, positioning it within the broader landscape of board games.

This video from slickerdrips features 'Speakeasy' as the top-ranked game in their 'Top 10 Games of 2025' list. The creator discusses why it stands out among other games released that year.

The Game Boy Geek reviews 'Speakeasy,' a thematic Euro game set in the Prohibition era where players produce and sell alcohol, engaging with mobsters. The review highlights streamlined turns despite the game's weight, balanced player interaction, and impressive artwork, while noting a lengthy setup.

The reviewer, Shaggy from Totally Tabled, approaches 'Speakeasy' as a noteworthy and engaging new heavy Euro game by Vital Lacerda, offering an in-depth tutorial to guide viewers through its complex worker placement mechanisms.

Speakeasy Blues is a fun dice-placement game set during Prohibition where players run competing lounges, though it suffers from dense iconography, fiddly hooch components, and a missing scoresheet.

Wendy and Chris Yi from The Dice Tower review Speakeasy, praising its engaging theme, beautiful components, and strategic gameplay, especially noting its clever decision moments. They consider it an excellent game with good pressure and escape valves. Both reviewers rated the game 8.5 out of 10.

Speakeasy" is a unique, upper B-tier game (52/275) with satisfying planning and quality components. However, its heavy nature, large footprint, and teaching difficulty mean the reviewer wouldn't personally buy it, despite its merits.

Speakeasy offers unique, thematic strategy with satisfying planning and quality components. Despite icon confusion and its large footprint, the engaging gameplay didn't quite make it a purchase for the reviewer's collection.

Speakeasy Blues is a charming dice-driven game about running an illicit 1920s gin joint, praised for its clever mechanics and tension. However, it suffers from unintuitive endgame scoring, iconography issues, and an unappealing box cover.

The reviewer found "Speakeasy" to have excellent theme and production value with clever design elements, but ultimately felt the game micromanaged players too much and took too long to become enjoyable, making it difficult to recommend or keep in their collection.