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In Quests of Valeria you play the role of a Guild Master, recruiting and dispatching Citizens to complete quests posted in a tavern in the Capital City of Valeria to earn Victory Points. The player with the most Victory Points at the end of the game wins.
Quests of Valeria is a unique set collection game where players gather Citizens to fill requirements on a Quest. Hire Citizens from the line in the Tavern that provide you with additional actions to build combo's of free actions!
Players take turns taking 2 actions from the following: Drawing cards, Hiring Citizens, Reserving a Quest, or Completing a Quest. When Hiring a Citizen, players pay the cost by discarding cards in their hand and taking the Citizen from the Tavern to their Guild (tableau). Some Citizens have bonus actions and they trigger as soon as they enter a player's Guild. When Completing a Quest, players must send Citizens from their Guild that match the requirements on the Quest to the discard pile. When a player completes 5 Quests, the game ends and player's reveal their Guild Master and count up Victory Points.
Quests of Valeria Full Playthrough
- Great art and vibrant illustrations
- Engaging set collection mechanics with quest-building
- Satisfying chain of actions that can feel powerful when planned
- Hidden role provides targeted victory point opportunities
- Initial complexity can be overwhelming due to many components and quest types
- guild-building and quest completion to gain renown
- a town where players hire citizens into their guilds to complete quests
- Valyrian card kingdoms
- Villages of Valeria
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action drafting — One of the four actions on a turn; draw action lets you draw cards from the top of the deck.
- Bottom actions on hired cards — When a citizen enters your guild hall you evaluate the bottom bonus actions (e.g., draw).
- draw action — One of the four actions on a turn; draw action lets you draw cards from the top of the deck.
- end game bonuses — The Guild Master card gives bonus victory points for each Adventure and Battle Quest completed.
- End game trigger — The game ends when a player completes five quests; then the round finishes and points are tallied.
- Guild Master bonuses — The Guild Master card gives bonus victory points for each Adventure and Battle Quest completed.
- Hire citizens into Guild Hall — Players pay costs to hire citizens from the tavern or from their hand, placing them into their Guild Hall.
- Quests and quest completion — Quests have top requirements and bottom rewards; players must collect required resources to complete quests.
- Reserve Quest action — A quest can be reserved so only the owner can complete it later; there is also a public display variant.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- the art is just really great
- it seems like at its heart it is a set collection game you're trying to get the right symbols together and you're trying to get the right resources together to get the quests that are good for you
- this game shines is making you feel like you did something really cool on your turn
- there are a variety of pretty cool decisions in this really pretty looking game
- it's a vibrant beautiful game