Game Info
Year
2025
Players
1-5
Age
16+
Playtime
90 min
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Description
Massive cooperative campaign dungeon-crawling board game set in a dark medieval fantasy world featuring tactical boss battles and branching narratives
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Kingdoms Forlorn l 2nd Delve Phase
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positive
Pros
- Rich narrative with meaningful, branching decisions that affect later events
- Deep tactical combat with a dynamic card/dice system and varied knight abilities
- Expansive exploration that grows with map expansion and cipher/story layers
- Asymmetric character arcs and recruitable allies add variety and replayability
- Active community involvement (Patreon) influencing choices and playthrough direction
Cons
- High complexity and frequent rule interactions can invite misreads or mistakes during play
- Cumulative time pressure (time track, curses, gates) can be punishing and slow pacing at times
- Potential for analysis paralysis due to many simultaneous options and card interactions
Thematic elements
- Duty, leadership, sacrifice, and moral choices under pressure
- A perilous fantasy kingdom exploration during a caravan-based expedition
- Story-driven, branching quest lines with character interactions and evolving objectives
Comparison games
- Aon Trespass Odyssey
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Clash phase with tokens — Use break tokens, opening tokens, heat, and passion to resolve combat against foes; involves a clash pool and turn-based windows.
- Clue tokens and investigation — Collect green/blue/yellow clue tokens to advance investigations and grant rewards or progress toward quests.
- Curse and panzer gate mechanics — Gains curses when thresholds are crossed; panzer gates create locked paths requiring keys to bypass.
- deduction — Collect green/blue/yellow clue tokens to advance investigations and grant rewards or progress toward quests.
- Delve phase and time track — Move on a time track that drives encounters, events, and potential curses; increases urgency to complete objectives.
- Dice-driven combat with armor thresholds — Combat uses red/black dice, armor thresholds, pains, scars, and bane tokens to determine wounds and outcomes.
- Encounter and ambush resolution — Encounters spawn from time, explore, and sometimes trigger ambush events requiring immediate decisions and tests.
- Exploration and map expansion — Draw exploration cards, reveal tiles, place keys and gates, and allow map expansion as you travel through the district.
- Hidden movement — Track progress toward hunting major threats via hunt tally marks and assign marshall/clue tokens to detect tracks.
- Hunt tally marks and marshall clues — Track progress toward hunting major threats via hunt tally marks and assign marshall/clue tokens to detect tracks.
- Mercenary (level two rogue) card — A level-two mercenary acquired from a delve event, offering a dual-card draw ability when drawing exploration cards.
- Refresh, heat, and arc tokens — Cards have refresh/arc mechanics and special tokens (opening/break/heat) that influence clash windows and shock effects.
- Rest and campfire phase — Reset knight abilities, regain resources, and collect campfire tales that may affect future events.
- Time track — Move on a time track that drives encounters, events, and potential curses; increases urgency to complete objectives.
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Quotes (from this video)
- I am having an absolute blast with this game.
- The decision space where it's like, okay, do I really help that caravan out or do I let them go on their merry way?
- This one's one of my favorite parts of the game because of the decision space.
- I love the decision space where it feels like your choices truly matter.
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