Stonemaier Games Euphoria Build a Better Dystopia Game

Place worker dice strategically to build your authority and take over a dystopia. 

2-6 Players  |  60 Mins  |  Ages 13+

Features: Dice Rolling, Hand Management, Race, Set Collection, Trading, Variable Player Powers, Worker Placement, Worker Placement with Dice Workers

Theme: Science Fiction

Description:

In Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia, you lead a team of workers (dice) and recruits (cards) to claim ownership of the dystopian world. You will generate commodities, dig tunnels to infiltrate opposing areas, construct markets, collect artifacts, strengthen allegiances, and fulfill secret agendas.

Euphoria is a worker-placement game in which dice are your workers. The number on each die represents a worker's knowledge—that is, his level of awareness that he's in a dystopia. Worker knowledge enables various bonuses and impacts player interaction. If the collective knowledge of all of your available workers gets too high, one of them might desert you. You also have two elite recruit cards at your disposal; one has pledged allegiance to you, but the other needs some convincing. You can reveal and use the reticent recruit by reaching certain milestones in the game... or by letting other players unwittingly reach those milestones for you.

Your path to victory is paved with the sweat of your workers, the strength of your allegiances, and the tunnels you dig to infiltrate other areas of the world, but the destination is a land grab in the form of area control. You accomplish this by constructing markets that impose harsh restrictions of personal freedoms upon other players, changing the face of the game and opening new paths to victory. You can also focus on gathering artifacts from the old world, objects of leisure that are extremely rare in this utilitarian society. The dystopian elite covet these artifacts—especially matching pairs—and are willing to give you tracts of land in exchange for them.

Four distinct societies, each of them waiting for you to rewrite history. What are you willing to sacrifice to build a better dystopia?

Contains:

• 1 game board
• 4-piece custom game tray
• 24 custom steampunk dice
• 48 recruit cards (59x91mm)
• 36 artifact cards (59x91mm)
• 18 cardboard market tiles
• 6 ethical dilemma cards (59x91mm)
• 45 custom wood resource tokens
• 72 custom wood commodity tokens
• 3 wood miner meeples
• 4 wood progress tokens
• 6 custom wood morale tokens
• 6 custom wood knowledge tokens
• 60 custom wood authority tokens
• 12 cardboard multiplier markers
• 12-page full-color rule book

AWARDS & HONORS

• 2014 Mensa Select Winner
• 2013 Golden Geek Most Innovative Board Game Nominee
• 2013 Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork/Presentation Nominee
• 2013 Board Game Quest Awards Most Innovative Game Nominee
• 2013 Board Game Quest Awards Best Strategy/Euro Game Nominee
• 2013 Board Game Quest Awards Best Production Values Winner
• 2013 Board Game Quest Awards Best Production Values Nominee

Barcode: 653341029706

Vendor: Stonemaier Games