Heroes of Timeline is a board game that brings you into a captivating fantasy world and challenges your strategic skills in quick and dynamic battles.
- Zero randomness
Heroes of Timeline is a board game that will never let a victory to be stolen from you by an unlucky dice throw. Only your strategy and choices lead the Heroes to a victory or a defeat.
- Unique heroes
Unique abilities of each Hero and each Team mean that every move you make is crucial, and every match you play is unique.
- Painless rules
The game is designed to start playing quickly. This video will prepare you for your first Heroes of Timeline game in roughly 10 minutes.
- Deep strategy
You lead two Teams of mightiest Heroes, and you direct their maneuvers, attacks, and abilities in a turn-based combat. The stakes in this game are high: any attack on an unprotected Hero means elimination.
- Fast-paced
- Chess-like vibe with variety of powers
- Short play sessions may feel incomplete for some players
- rivalries and tactical decisions
- fantasy skirmish
- short, dynamic battles with rematch emphasis
- Icar
- Iliad
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Duel-based skirmish — short matches with tactical decisions
- team-based character powers — teams of characters with powers to keep match dynamic
- Unique Player Powers — teams of characters with powers to keep match dynamic
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- The core hook is asymmetric gameplay.
- Be the first to get all your tokens onto the board.
- The game's hook is charming and immediately understandable.
- Rematch, lose again in a completely different way.
- Truly, this game hath been unlike any sequence known to me.