The world was at peace until the discovery the "weapons". Strange mechanical titans made of stone and metal that lay dormant depths of the world. Now the tribes are in disagreement in what should be done to these mysterious artifacts.
Ancient Future is a competitive card game for 1-4 players with no direct combat. Players will create a deck of 30 cards and compete to be the first to either destroy or awaken 2 of the artifacts that are in the center of the table.
Ancient Future features an innovative depleting resource system that has players start with 10 resources to spend and each turn refresh all resources and remove one resource from the game, slowly depleting their pool from turn to turn. The game also ends when the last resource is removed at which point the player holding the highest value artifact is the winner.
—description from the designer
- deck construction element
- no direct combat differentiates from typical combat-based clashes
- artifact control / competition
- ancient civilization with Titan artifacts
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- competitive card game with no direct combat — there is competition without direct combat between factions
- Deck construction — players create a deck of 30 cards and compete
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- there's a deck construction element but it does not say that it's a deck builder
- opposing factions race to control or eliminate ancient Titan artifacts
- Beyond the Horizon ... 2.0 reimplementation sort of of Beyond the Sun
- the scoreboard itself is a mini-game of snakes and ladders
- it's essentially a 3X type game that really focuses on building out a communal Tech tree
- the gam play is simple on your turn you just do one of the six actions that shows up here