Brass: Birmingham

Strategy· Board Game· Tabletop· Turn-Based Tactics

Released Dec 2021 · delisted

Welcome to the Industrial Revolution! Lead your fast-growing business enterprise, build and develop new industries, multiply your income and don’t get distracted by your rivals. Show everyone you are the real deal!

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Evaluation

Brass: Birmingham launched on Steam on December 1, 2021 as a digital adaptation of the board game. It received no major content expansions during its time on the platform — developer communications consisted almost entirely of bug fix patches. On May 24, 2026, the developer announced that the game would be removed from Steam at the end of that month due to changes in the licensing agreement. The game is now no longer available for purchase, confirmed by the absence of any purchase options on the store page. The developer expressed gratitude to the community and indicated this was a permanent closure of the game's Steam presence, with no mention of the game moving to another platform. As a digital board game adaptation that shipped as a complete, finished product and received no post-launch content expansions, the game was content-complete from its launch date.

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Developer announced the game would be removed from Steam at the end of May 2026 due to licensing agreement changes, offering a final 50% discount before removal.

news post · May 24, 2026 source development ending

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Store description presents the game as a complete digital adaptation of the Brass: Birmingham board game with no mention of planned expansions or additional content.

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Details

Developer

Cublo

Publisher

Phalanx

Achievements

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Platform

Windows, macOS, Linux

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Steam Deck

Unsupported

Players

Single-player · Multiplayer · PvP

About this game

Would you like to take part in the Industrial Revolution and find out why Brass: Birmingham is considered to be an excellent sequel to one of the best economic board games of all time? Brass: Birmingham takes you back in time again, when a knack for strategic thinking fueled by gut instinct could sketch biographies of the likes of Friedrich Krupp or Richard Arkwright. Will you manage to follow in the footsteps of mighty industrialists from the era of iron and steam power?

Use your resources. Extract coal from the nearest mines to create new canal or rail links and industries. Supply iron from the surrounding ironworks to develop old industries and build new ones. Entice your clients with beer to more easily sell the fruits of your labor.

Develop the industry. Play appropriate cards and resources to build new coal mines and ironworks as well as cotton mills, breweries, potteries and manufactories. Discard cards to enhance your technological base and build even better and more profitable industries.

Be the best. Show you have a true flair for business during two distinct historical eras of Industrial Revolution, the canal era and the rail era, and achieve the ultimate victory by selling all your products and linking the greatest number of industries and merchant towns together.

Are you going the be the best? Test yourself and your skills in Brass: Birmingham!