

You’ll have five cards in your hand each turn and you’ll use those cards to move and to perform those skill tests. Most of the actions you take in Aftermath (fighting, scavenging, etc.) require you to perform skill tests. If the situation is hostile, they’ll try to fight you. If the situation is safe, you can communicate with them and potentially add them to your colony. This will usually lead to groups of animals showing up at your location. Throughout each mission you’ll be generating encounters by drawing encounter cards. You use the Downtown Travel Map sheet to track your movements around the city. The main mission cards tell you where you need to end up to complete the missions and where to go in the adventure book once you succeed or fail. Whenever you reach scavenge spots, points of interest, or pretty much any other marked spot on a map, you’ll read those entries in the adventure book.Įach game you’ll choose one of your available main missions to play as well as a side mission. Just like in the other Adventure Book Games, each mission is played on a series of maps in the game’s spiral bound book, and next to each map is a page of unique rules and story text.

On top of that, you need find food and other supplies so your colony can survive. The four main characters in Aftermath have personal goals and you’ll be attempting to complete all of those goals as you play through the game’s missions. This is the third game in the Adventure Book Games series after Stuffed Fables and Comanauts. This is a campaign game, so you’ll play through a series of missions until you either lose or complete all of your goals.Īftermath was designed by Jerry Hawthorne and is published by Plaid Hat Games.

We were sent a copy of this game by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.Īftermath is a cooperative, post-apocalyptic, adventure board game in which you play as rodents who are trying to find a way to survive in a human-less world. This Aftermath review was made after playing through one campaign. But when that happens, you’ll pick up the game again as a new survivor, with perks and upgrades earned based on your progress from the last, and set out to try again.Year: 2019 | Players: 1-4 | Minutes: 60+ | Ages: 14+ In fact, you’re one of the infected yourself, and eventually you’ll die, be it from the hostile undead or the virus rampaging through your body. You’ll need to stay on your toes, since hordes of zombies still roam the streets, and you’re no superhuman. Choose a survivor to set forth and explore the ruins of civilization, finding fuel to travel to new locations and gathering supplies to craft weapons and more. The latest from veteran developer Con Artist Games, creators of The Last Stand series of games, The Last Stand: Aftermath is an all new, premium singleplayer standalone action adventure rogue-lite.
