2016 · Fantasy

Side Quest

Portable, classic-style card dungeon crawl that fits in a pocket. Players form a cooperative party and use a single deck and a few dice to explore a decision-heavy dungeon, encounter monsters, collect loot and rescue NPCs while upgrading characters for an end-of-dungeon boss fight. All players share victory and defeat conditions: if any hero or rescued NPC is killed, the group loses. Scenarios range from quick 30-minute skirmishes and solo challenges to longer multi-hour dungeon runs, with a variety of heroes, monsters and equipment cards to vary each playthrough.

groupPlayers

1–4 best 2

schedulePlaying time

20–120 min

cakeAge

8+

psychologyComplexity

1.8 / 5