Obsession: 2nd Edition | Board Game

You are the head of a respected but troubled family estate in mid-19th century Victorian England. After several lean decades, family fortunes are looking up! Your goal is to improve your estate so as to be in better standing with the truly influential families in Derbyshire.

Obsession: 2nd Edition Wessex | Board Game Expansion

The Wessex Expansion adds a fifth family board to the mix that gives the advantage of a larger starting country estate. A player selecting the Family Wessex player board will have their choice between the Breakfast Room and Tennis Court—second level improvements—in his or her manor house at the beginning of the game. The expansion also adds five additional Starter Guests, five additional Casual Guests, five additional Prestige Guests, and six new Solitaire opponents.

Obsession: 2nd Edition Upstairs Downstairs | Board Game Expansion

An expansion for Obsession that introduces four new servants—the Hall Boy, Cook, Head Housemaid, and Useful Man—who can be used to mitigate Victorian Fate found in the base game.

It also enables 5 and 6 players and adds the Howard family with their legendary cook.

Upstairs, Downstairs includes new service and improvement tiles along with a ton of new casual and prestige guests. The expansion components empower players to screen guests, work around prestige limitations, find tiles, refresh the market more easily, and enhance favors early in the game.

Finally, there are three new game modes: Solo Estate Challenge, Team Cooperative Play, and Tableau Obsession.

Obsession: 2nd Edition Promo Tiles | Board Game Expansion

These twenty (20) promotional tiles were developed as part of a stretch goal during the 2019 Upstairs, Downstairs Kickstarter campaign.

Users were invited to submit tile ideas, which were evaluated for thematic integrity and gameplay coherence, with the top two finishers in a user poll—the Parish Church/Parsonage (Stephen Cleary) and Babbling Brook (MJ Petrie)—being included in the Upstairs, Downstairs expansion.

The remaining eighteen (18) promotional tiles are now available as a separate item. These improvement tiles span all five tile categories: seven SERVICE, two ESTATE, two ESSENTIALS, three PRESTIGE, one SPORTING, and three SPECIALISED tiles (one hybrid, one wildcard, and one prototype tile).

Search for comets in a Garden Observatory, attempt to launch a Hot Air Balloon out on the East Lawn, enhance your service staff in countless ways, or be anything you want to be in the Art Gallery! All tiles are thematically sound, fitting the Victorian period.

Obsession: 2nd Edition Metal Coins | Board Game Expansion

Premium metal coins crafted for serious board gamers.

This substantial set weighs over 330g with each coin measuring 3.3mm thick—double the weight of standard coins for a satisfying, authentic feel in hand.

Featuring Queen Victoria across denominations (£100 and £500), the reverse sides showcase Obsession-themed imagery: lion rampant, fleur-de-lis, courtship couple, crown, and tile rose. 

The Victorian aesthetic complements period-themed games while the design works seamlessly in any board game collection.

Engineered to stack cleanly, these coins reward the tactile pleasure of organizing and managing your in-game wealth—a detail that transforms gameplay from functional to genuinely enjoyable.

Obsession: 2nd Edition Characters | Board Game Expansion

A strange Dowager lives outside of Derby in a sprawling manor distastefully done up like a Scottish castle. More distasteful yet is that her estate is simply crawling with odd characters, refugees from around Europe and eccentric, if pedigreed, characters from closer to home. Respectable people shun the great lady for her appalling taste in acquaintances, but one must confess that her rabble is spectacularly interesting...

The Characters expansion for Obsession brings thematic new personalities to Derbyshire who provide unique actions for managing your country estate: Constable Bucket, a fair hand at running off all manner of unsavoury guests; a Mr. Higbee who can find domestic help in a pinch (“References? I am sure they are here somewhere…”); the wise Reverend Grantly, a dispenser of sage advice; and an Eccentric Dowager Marchioness, who will connect you with a Prussian major, Swedish noble, and a Russian count as quick as a wink.

Obsession: Victorian Box

Beautifully designed storage solution for Obsession that accommodates all components, including the new playmat.

This 295mm × 295mm × 135mm box offers 50% more volume than the second edition, fitting perfectly on a Kallax shelf.

Features an embossed Alderley Hall estate design and includes three nesting boxes—one sized specifically for the playmat. A display-worthy piece that keeps your collection organised and accessible.

Obsession: Universal Rules Compendium

The Universal Rules Compendium is the answer that knits together the base game and expansions into a coherent whole.

 7 extraordinary appendices (and a back cover reference): 

• Appendix A: Frequently Asked Questions
• Appendix B: Gentry Cards
• Appendix C: Improvement Tiles
• Appendix D: VP Cards
• Appendix E: Objective Cards
• Appendix F: Milestones
• Appendix G: Solo Opponents
• Back Cover: Quick Reference

Integrated setup for expansions

Comprehensive Index.
At the heart of the rulebook is a thorough Index with entries such as Assisting Allies (teams/coop); Dismissal Favour; Intensive Service Variant; Industrialist (guest type); Order of Play, Solo Mode; Respectable Casual Guest; and Service Substitution

Obsession: Playmat

A continuous rolling landscape portraying Alderley Hall and the Dowager Marchioness Scottish castle in a Wuthering Heights-esque brooding mood.

Some Features:

• Size: 950mm x 262mm (37.4" x 10.3")
• Material: The rubber mat is single-sided with a stitched edge. The back side is textured rubber that minimises sliding.
• Storage: In a perfect segue, the playmat snugly fits into the Victorian Box!