2015 · Mythology

Valley of the Kings: Afterlife

Players act as Egyptian nobles preparing funerary tombs in the valley of the kings. A deck-building engine uses a crumbling pyramid tableau: cards are drafted from the pyramid and then added to each player’s personal deck or placed in their tomb to score. Players acquire jewelry, chambers, weapons, tomb art and other treasure, manage hand size and card cycling, and time when to bunker valuable cards into their tomb before the pyramid erodes. The player with the most valuable collection of artifacts in their tomb at game end wins. The game also supports combining components to expand the player count.

groupPlayers

1–4 best 2

schedulePlaying time

45 min

cakeAge

14+

psychologyComplexity

2.3 / 5