Game Design: Richard Ámann, Viktor Péter
Illustrations Villő Farkas, Tamás Baranya
A gripping euro-style dice drafting and placement strategy game where the survivors of a shipwreck build their new home on an abandoned island, defend themselves against menacing dinosaurs and explore the wild to lay the foundations for a resilient community trying to expand their city further.
After rolling both neutral, white dice as well as player colored dice, you take Actions by picking one of these Specialist dice from a shared pool. You place your chosen die on a matching spot on the main board to perform one or more of the matching Effects for that specific Community area.
Whenever the dice pool runs out, a community based vote happens amongst our people. This periodically occurring area majority based mechanism scores Followers, the games’ victory points, for establishing presence with your Leader. This is shown through having player colored pieces in the Community areas, where the Leader with the most colored pieces will win the vote of that area.
The settlement and its forming society are developing under the excellent guidance of the Officers’ Council. As an aspiring Leader, a good relationship with the Officers goes a long way and will reward you in Followers after the Assembly based on the strategies you’ve been pursuing and the amount of Influence that is on their Officer card, which is majority based.
Build Walls, set Traps, and rally different kinds of Soldiers to defend against periodic Dino attacks against your encampment. Defense is a joint effort, but players are rewarded individually based on their contribution after an attack has happened. Be careful though, failure will result in breaching Dinos, trampled Settlements, and lost Followers!Settlements, and lost Followers!
These mechanics are returning in a similar fashion as in Episode 1 together with even more Actions to choose from in the ever expanding City you are building as well as now a 5th Officer, our rescued Captain, you can influence in favor of helping you as a Leader come out on top at the end.
Assemble exploration parties, and venture beyond the walls of our established city to see what lies beyond. Undertake Adventures that can give many different kinds of rewards, capture Dinos roaming the wild to add them to your enclosure, and establish Outposts on the map hexes for even more die placement options in your next turns.
If you continue building relations with the different Officers, they might share some tips or tricks to help you thrive and survive in this game of patrolling versus politics. With over 30 different skills to choose from, you can create your Leader in a way that fits your strategy or your preferred way to play the game with excellent replayability
