Anachrony (Essential Edition)

It is the late 26th century. Earth is recovering from a catastrophic explosion that exterminated the majority of the population centuries ago and made most of the surface uninhabitable due to unearthly weather conditions. The surviving humans organized along four radically different ideologies, called Paths, to rebuild the world as they see fit: Harmony, Dominance, Progress, and Salvation. Followers of the four Paths live in a fragile peace, but in almost complete isolation next to each other. Their only meeting point is the last major city on Earth, now just known as the Capital.

By powering up the mysterious Time Rifts that opened in the wake of the cataclysm, each Path is able to reach back to specific moments in their past. Doing so can greatly speed up their progress, but too much meddling may endanger the time-space continuum. But progress is more important than ever before: if the mysterious message arriving through the Time Rift is to be believed, an even more terrible cataclysm is looming on the horizon: an asteroid bearing the mysterious substance called Neutronium is heading towards Earth. Even stranger, the scientists show that the energy signature of the asteroid matches the explosion centuries ago...

Anachrony is a competitive Euro-style strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world rebuilt along four different ideological Paths. The game is played through a series of turns called Eras, with past ones reachable through time travel later in the game. Players assume the roles of iconic leaders of the four Paths, striving not only for the supremacy and well-being of their people, but also their survival. After the fourth Era, an asteroid impact shakes Earth, threatening to destroy the World Capital, Earth’s last independent city. The Paths should prepare for the coming cataclysm, and when the time comes, take their part in evacuating the collapsing Capital. In the end, one of the Paths will be the new home to the reformed World Council, and lead humanity into a new future.

Main Game Features

• Engaging science fiction world with a vivid backstory
• Worker placement and resource management with a time travelling twist
• Unique worker system with Exosuits and four different types of workers, each with their own strengths and weaknesses
• Playable in solo or with two, three and four players, each playing a radically different Path
• Huge replayability thanks to variable player powers and countless ways to victory
• Great potential for player interaction and ways for temporary cooperation
• Two available expansions with strong thematic aspect for experienced players

A two-tiered worker placement system

Anachrony’s worker management system features four different types of Workers, each with their strengths and weaknesses. Some action spaces are available for them by default while others are only accessible with a special form of enhancement and protection, the Exosuits. Workers and Exosuits are managed separately, and both are required for your Path’s success.

Resource Management through Time

By powering up the Time Rifts to connect past and present, the Paths are able to request resources from their very own future at the beginning of each Era. These resources can greatly boost their progress, but in later Eras, the loop has to be closed, and the act of sending back the resource to their past has to happen. Meddling with the time-space continuum is a dangerous endeavor - if the loop is not closed, temporal Anomalies will start tearing up the present!

Expand, prepare, and survive a cataclysm

Anachrony’s gameplay features a strong story arch with a game-altering turning point: an asteroid impact. This event will alter the available Actions, open up new ones, and initiate the countdown to the game’s end. With careful planning and preparation, players can even take advantage of the Impact’s effects.

Components:

• main board
• 4 player boards
• 4 path boards
• eperiment board
• chronobot board
• evacuation action tile
• 80 plastic resource cubes
• 30 plastic water drops
• 6 custom dice
• 20 experiment cards
• 8 leader cards
• 22 recruit and mine pool cards
• 16 starting asset cards
• 9 endgame condition cards
• 12 dual-sided timeline tiles
• impact tile
• 72 building tiles
• 18 superproject tiles
• 45 breaktrough tiles
• 4 player banners with plastic standees
• chronobot banner
• 30 exosuit markers
• 80 worker tokens
• 15 collapsing capital tiles
• 9 "hex unavailable" tiles
• 24 energy core tokens
• 44 warp tokens
• 16 paradox tokens
• 32 path markers
• 6 chronobot tiles
• 66 victory point tokens
• 10 tracker tokens
• 3x1 rulebook + 3x4 player aids (English, French, German)
• scoring pad

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