2019 · Fantasy

In the Hall of the Mountain King

Lead a clan of trolls to rebuild an abandoned kingdom beneath the mountain by digging tunnels, restoring halls, and raising ancestral statues. Players lay polyomino tunnel tiles from their own entrance to reach buried resources, workshops, and toppled statues, spending materials that increase in value as construction continues. A shared market lets players hire additional trolls; each hire inserts a new troll into a cascading production line so hiring timing triggers multi-level resource gains. Carts move statues through the tunnel network to scoring locations, while halls and higher-quality tunnels also generate honor points. The game ends after the final troll hire and the player with the most honor wins.

groupPlayers

2–5 best 3

schedulePlaying time

90 min

cakeAge

12+

psychologyComplexity

2.9 / 5