Over a hundred years have passed since the humans have disappeared from the face of planet earth. Until now, robots have coexisted peacefully. But news that the earth's fuel has been running low, and greed for the fuel paired with fear of ending up in a junkyard has thrown the robots into a frenzy.
To survive, you spend your time foraging for parts with which to build weapons and force fields for protection.
Robot Ridge is a fast-paced, take that card game with several unique mechanics including custom designed robots, machine building to improve abilities, and scheming against enemy robots (see below).
Set-up:
Players choose three cards to build their unique robot- head, body, and feet (or foot).
Gameplay:
On your turn, draft two cards from the junkyard and then play your cards in order to build shields, steal cards from other robots, or blow them to bits.
As your robot gets damaged, you will lose abilities to play certain cards. Damaged feet mean you can't explore to find robot parts to repair your robot. A damaged body means you can't shoot at opponent robots.
Scheming. As fewer and fewer cards in your hand can be played due to your damaged robot, you can still use them to "scheme" against other robots. To scheme, place a card face down in front of them. Once three cards (from you or other robots) have been schemed against them, they must immediately take damage to part of their robot. Of course, if they happen to think, they get to remove the cards schemed against them and put them into their hand to use later... possibly against you!
The last robot standing wins!
—description from the designer