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Cerebria: The Inside World
Cerebria is a deep, objective-driven area control game for 1-4 players, where Bliss and Gloom, the two sides of the human personality, compete to influence the Inside World’s developing Identity.
60m - 120m
1 - 4 Players
Ages 14+
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Cerebria is a dynamic, team-based, objective-driven area control game, where players play as Spirits, powerful entities representing Bliss or Gloom. These opposing forces – the two sides of human nature – struggle to control and shape the Inside World, the metaphorical representation of an evolving personality.
Cerebria introduces a unique theme and numerous innovative mechanisms. The game is centered around the player-controlled Spirits, and the Emotion cards controlling Cerebria’s areas, each with their own stats and abilities.
The Spirits can perform up to three actions on their turn. These include moving between Cerebria’s Realms and Frontiers, using the specific powers of the Realms, invoking and upgrading Emotion cards, removing opposing Emotions, and building Fortresses to consolidate their influence on certain areas. The Actions cost Willpower, gained primarily by absorbing from the Origin’s Spheres in the middle of the board. Both Bliss and Gloom also have a rare shared team resource, Ambition, enabling them to use the game’s most powerful effects.
The teams can score points either by accomplishing publicly known minor objectives (the Intentions), or completing their major objectives (the Aspirations), which change dynamically during the course of the game. Scoring Aspirations allows players to add Bliss and Gloom Fragments to the Identity, built in the middle of the board. These are key moments in the game: Cerebria’s state is in constant flux, but the Fragments are permanent imprints of a game state during the scoring events.
The game is won by the side with more influence over the finished Identity, thus becoming the dominant force in Cerebria.
| Ages | 14+ |
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| Designer | Frigyes Schőberl, István Pócsi, Nick Shaw, Viktor Peter, David Turczi, Richard Amann |
| Theme | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Angry Lion Games, Mindclash Games |
| Players | Solo, 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players |
| Play Time | 60m – 120m |
| Mechanics | Action Point Allowance System, Area Control / Area Influence, Deck / Pool Building, Hand Management, Partnerships, Point to Point Movement, Variable Player Powers |
Alnav1
Amazing game, but also a really heavy one. Its needed to check the rulebook even after several matches. Anyway what happens on the board while playing is great, unique. Its totally worth it. Deep and enjoyable, and also a nice challenge. Better 2 player, with 2 spirits each. Im still trying to play 2 players coop against Ego. Update: Too much for me. After 4 games is still needed the rulebook
Bruce72
Played solo exclusively. Awesome thinky euro with decent asymmetry of playable characters that definitely increases replayability. One negative is that the Iconography is often unintuitive and requires near constant referencing of the rulebook. Solo opponent is challenging, easy to run and simulates an actual player quite well. Refreshing that (unlike Anachrony and Trickerion) an expensive expansion is not required for solo.
alkendi
Played 2 basic games (2 Shapers; 4 Spirits) and 1 full game (4 Spirits) so far. Enjoyed all 3 settings and I think I will be sticking with the full game. It's a very rewarding game and I'm glad I backed it on KS, but I found myself sometimes frustrated for not having enough essence counter, will power, cards, or actions and that is because I want to do everything every single turn lol. I love the fact that you have only 3 actions but then you have absorb and ambitions abilities, intentions, and emotion powers. The game can be very confrontational as you remove your opponent's emotions, and even worse, fortresses. The game Cerebria can induce AP (analysis paralysis) due to the availability of many actions/abilities/powers and because you cannot really plan until it's your turn. But this is true for many heavy euro games and I really enjoyed playing Cerebria in both basic and full games, and would want to play it more and more. It is my best game of the year 2018 and would probably become my all-time favourite, unless Mindclash Games manage to come up with something even better!