Objective
The first player to claim 2 Locations wins the game.
Rules
Quick-start rules, with links to the full PDF. Images are placeholders unless specified; we’ll swap them in as you provide them.
Card Types
Heroes
Leaders with unique abilities. Draw cards, play events, fight, and scavenge.
Survivors
Your main force. Play by discarding cards; used to fight, guard, and scavenge.
Items
Equipment/Contraptions/Special. Attach where allowed; boost stats or add effects.
Events
One-time effects. Exhaust a Hero to play; resolve, then recycle.
Setup
- Shuffle your 50-card deck; place your 3 Heroes outside your play area.
- Draw 5; optionally recycle any number and redraw the same amount.
- Shuffle the 16-card Location deck; reveal 3 face-up Locations.
- Randomly determine the first player.
Turn Structure
- Refresh: Move scavenge tokens, return Characters, claim Locations, refresh cards, ready/flip Heroes, draw cards.
- Action: In any order, any number of times — draw with a Hero, play an Event (exhaust a Hero), play Survivors/Items, attack, or scavenge unguarded Locations.
- End: Resolve any end-phase effects.
Winning Locations
During your Refresh Phase, if your scavenge tokens on a Location meet or exceed its requirement, claim it, gain its reward, and reveal a new Location.
Combat
Damage is marked with counters and persists. Survivors with damage ≥ Health are defeated (recycled). Defeated Heroes flip face-down and return next Refresh. You can always attack Characters in Warzones; you must clear the Warzone before attacking Characters at a guarded Location.
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Join the CommunityGlossary & Terms
- Character: A Hero or a Survivor.
- Refresh: Ready (un-exhaust) your exhausted cards.
- ⤵ (Exhaust): Turn a card 90° to show it’s been used.
- Rescue: Reveal cards until you find the listed type; add them to hand; shuffle the rest back.
- Evolve: During planning, discard a same-faction Survivor from Home Base to reduce the new card’s cost by the discarded card’s cost.
- Upgrade X: Pay up to X extra cards of the same faction when playing a Survivor to grant +X Combat and +X Health.
- Consume: When a Survivor goes to the recycle pile from play, increase Health or Combat by +1 (as specified).