Lockup: A Roll Player Tale is a competitive worker allocation for one to five players. In the game, players manage groups of minions - gnolls, kobolds, bugbears, goblins or insectoids - who are imprisoned in Kulbak Prison. Each round, players try to keep their suspicions of the guards in check while assigning their crew to different locations within Kulbak. The player with the strongest crew in each location at the end of each round gets the most resources, hires the most powerful crew and builds the most powerful items, increasing their reputation. The player with the highest reputation at the end of six rounds wins the game.