Atlantis Rising: Deluxe Edition (Kickstarter Special) Elf Creek Games

Board Game Geek Avg Player Rating: 8.00
Players: 1 to 6
Published: 2019
Content Notes: Kickstarter Deluxe Edition of Atlantis Rising Board Game by Elf Creek Games. Includes core game (standard edition), Deluxe Upgrade Pack, and (almost) all unlocked stretch goals. Please note: unless otherwise stated paid add ons from the Kickstarter Campaign are not included.

Please note: All KS stretch goals are included except KS Edition (numbered) Game Box and custom tray insert.

 What if you could save the people of Atlantis from their fateful destruction?

The isle of Atlantis, your home, is sinking. Will you be able to save your people in time?

Atlantis Rising is a co-operative worker placement game in which you must work together with up to five other players to deploy citizens across your homeland, gathering resources in order to build a cosmic gate that can save your people. Workers placed close to the shoreline are more rewarding, but are more likely to be flooded and the actions lost.

Every turn, each player draws a misfortune card that will flood certain locations along the ever-shrinking Atlantis shoreline, or may otherwise work to undermine your efforts to save your people. So you must race to gather the necessary resources to build and power the gate, before the island disappears beneath the waves forever.

Atlantis Rising: Second Edition preserves everything that was cherished and loved from the original edition. The feeling of dread and tension, that rises like the tides along the island shores, the mix of calculation and risk needed to succeed, the stories that the game creates with each play—it’s all still here. And it’s been improved upon:

• More strategic choices created by redesigning additional worker recruitment in the Cities and the Wrath of the Gods round tracker (replacing the original’s Atlantean Navy)
• New asymmetric variable player powers that have quickly become a favorite of the new edition’s playtesters, that help you feel like your character is in the world helping to save Atlantis!
• As the floodwaters rise, the tension builds, and hope begins to falter, players now also feel a sense of progression, at their own increasing capacity to stem the tide. New library artifact cards grant players ongoing abilities and the cosmic gate components feature powers that are now reusable.
• For the first time, a dedicated solo mode and simple ruleset variants to help the two and three player games play with the same excitement and tension as larger player counts.

 But, as with the original edition, you don’t have to take our word for it. 

This edition contains all new art and graphic design, created to bring even more attention to the thematic setting of the game. The Athenians Attack phase has been replaced with the Wrath of the Gods phase, requiring more strategic planning and adding to the sense of urgency. Now, instead of placing workers in an Atlantean Navy, players must cooperatively decide to flood a set number of tiles at the end of each round. To further aid them in their task, Councilor player powers have been expanded and made more impactful, and the knowledge deck has similarly been revised and expanded. The variable gate components, once built, no longer offer one-time bonuses, but create new worker placement spots where players can send Atlantean workers to unleash actions to help save their island.

— from the publisher

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