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Ice as far as the eye can see ...
In this frozen world, swept by blizzards, a lone city clings to life.
Every year during the summer season, the city's guilds organise expeditions.
Their destination: the valley of the ancient ones, where vestiges of an antediluvian civilization might be buried. Looking for answers, prestige or riches, every guild has its own motivations.
Players are archeologists exploring tiles they can remove. There are 5 levels of tiles in the game. The first one corresponds to the ice sheet level. The second, third and fourth represent surface, intermediate and deep artifacts levels. the last one is the edifice level. Archeologists dig these tiles in order to collect artifacts which gave them reputation points. The ice sheet tiles removed by a player can be played as a helping action for him. The edifice tiles are game changing rules and represent legacy material to discover as we go along.
The game stops when a first edifice tile is fully discovered. Then players count their reputation points, which determine the winner.
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- Strong teamwork and communication
- Fast-paced and chaotic in a fun way
- Cooperation can be fragile if miscommunications occur
- Code cracking and teamwork
- Cooperative puzzle-solving environment
- Cooperative puzzle-solving with a timer
- Team-based cooperative games
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- Cooperative Game — Players work together to crack a code
- cooperative play — Players work together to crack a code
- Simultaneous Actions — Most actions happen at the same time
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- this is the first ever board game version of saboteur
- it's designed to bring people together
- I for the most part hate cooperative games this is one however that I really like
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- Sharp and pretty game
- Fast playing
- Dynamic mancala mechanism
- Collapsing and expanding columns
- Beautiful presentation
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- 2023 was the greatest year in board game history for my tastes
- Conveyor belts are my favorite board game mechanism period
- This is a technological breakthrough for Games
- The greatest bag building game of all time
- Ode to the power and resiliency of Science and cooperation
- Wall-to-wall optimism and an Ode to the power and resiliency of Science and cooperation