Road to New Eden
2013
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6.4
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Players
1-8
Weight
2.00/5.00
Playtime
60 min
Age
13+
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An adventure board game in a post apocalyptic universe. Your goal is to find the city of New Eden before others players.
Each player will play a character with 8 characteristics: fighting, shooting, driving, chating and having mechanical, medical, discretion and foraging abilities.
Each turn, players choose one of the 5 possible destinations. On his way to the chosen destination, each player will make an encounter and most of the time a fight will result. But all encounters are not the same. Depending on your opponent you'll try to run away, to pay what he wants or to use one of your 8 characteristics to fight him. If you own a car you also can try to accelerate to evade. Your characteristic plus some items and a dice will decide if you succeed or not.
Depending on the place you've chosen different actions are possible: trying to hide to recover, collecting items, selling or buying items, fighting with other players or exchanging items in between players. Items are in your hand. You may use most of them but some have a cost you must pay to use them.
But in this post apocalyptic survival is not easy. Each turn you must eat and drink. You can get wounded or contract diseases that players with good medical abilities can heal or cure. Players can also improve weapons, vehicles or armors using their technical abilities.
The first player to arrive at New Eden, one of the 5 destinations, wins. But the road to new Eden is more challenging: you'll face 5 encounters on your way. And before entering New Eden you must be free of any disease.
Two additional scenari are available, one with a mission to be accomplished before trying the road to New Eden, and one for a single player.