Lockup: A Roll Player Tale is a competitive worker-placement game for 1-5 players in the Roll Player universe. In the game, players control groups of minions (gnolls, kobolds, bugbears, goblins, or insectoids) locked up in Kulbak Prison. Once every year, King Taron lets the toughest gang of war prisoners into the royal Colosseum.

Each round, players attempt to keep their suspicion from the guards under control while allocating their crew to different locations within Kulbak. The player with the strongest crew in each location at the end of each round earns the most resources, hires the most mighty crew, and builds the most powerful items, increases their reputation. The player with the highest reputation at the end of 6 rounds, wins the game.