In the Heart of Darkness

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Action Point Allowance — Players are allowed a number of actions based on the number of players. For a three-player game, there are four actions.
• Area Movement — Players can move to an adjacent location.
• Combat — Players can initiate combat by rolling dice equal to their strength, with crawlers and devours dying on one hit and the guardian when they reach zero health.
• cooperative play — Players take the role of a group of protagonists trying to complete quests and make it off the land in a rescue boat.
• Deck Building (Loot Cards) — Players draw loot cards and keep two, discarding one face down. Loot cards can be played to resolve actions or used as personal items.
• Resource Management (Strength and Sanity) — Players lose one sanity for each protagonist with creatures in their location. If a protagonist's strength or sanity equals zero, or they have too many curse cards, they are killed.
• Set Collection (Radio Items) — For the rescue boat, there are five radio items in the loot deck. Once three are played at one time at the Lighthouse, the boat token goes at the harbor.
• Set Traps — Players can place a trap token on their space, which kills all creatures that enter the location in a single turn.
• Track Advancement (Darkness Track) — The darkness track advances with either a gate destroyed token, a crawler entering, or a protagonist being killed. The game ends if the darkness track reaches above seven.

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• The darkness track advances with either a gate destroyed token is placed a crawler enters the heart of dark nness or a protagonist is killed
• If a creature moves on a trap they are killed
• If during a round a protagonist strength or sanity equals zero or they have greater than or equal to four curse cards they are killed
• Players take the role of a group of protagonist trying to complete quests and make it off the land in a rescue boat before Darkness takes you

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• Heart of Darkness is a game of Highly restricted Communications
• you are not allowed to make any verbal or nonverbal communication among the players about the game state
• if you can escape by sea without the darkness exceeding seven then you'll win the game

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