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Kingdom Rush: Elemental Uprising is a fully co-operative standalone board game for 1 to 4 players that offers the ultimate tower-defense experience for the tabletop.
Players take on the roles of asymmetrical heroes defending their kingdom against waves of incoming monster hordes. Players play towers to attack hordes, using polyomino tiles to cover monsters until all monsters in a horde are covered, destroying it. Players will earn crystals and gold which can be spent on buying new towers or Tower Modifications to improve and customize their existing towers.
Monsters come with a range of special abilities that players will have to plan around, passing towers between each other, and positioning attacks to get around magic shields and monster powers. The heroes will also be confronted with game-changing events and elemental disruptions such as volcanoes and cyclones.
The game is scenario-based and can be played as individual replayable scenarios or as a steadily evolving campaign leading up to big boss fights, hero challenges, and more.
Kingdom Rush offers simple to learn rules with a high level of tactics for experienced gamers. Upon starting each scenario, players will be able to choose from a range of difficulty levels or even take on the dreaded Iron Challenges which require near-perfect strategies to overcome.
—description from the publisher
The Deluxe Pledge level contains:
Kingdom Rush: Elemental Uprising Base Game,
and FREE “More than Shadows Expansion”, including all unlocked Stretch Goals from this campaign.
| Ages | 14+ |
|---|---|
| Players | Solo, 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players |
| Play Time | 45m – 90m |
| Designer | Helana Hope, Jessey Wright, Sen-Foong Lim |
| Mechanics | Cooperative Game, Hand Management, Modular Board, Pattern Building, Tile Placement, Variable Player Powers |
| Theme | Miniatures, Video Game Theme, Adventure, Fantasy, Medieval |
| Publisher | Lucky Duck Games |
pancor
Played the prototype scenario and I must say it's more interesting than the first installment - more challenging, more decision making and so on.
SwatSh
Vin d'jeu: French review of Kingdom Rush: https://www.vindjeu.eu/2021/02/09/kingdom-rush-elemental-uprising/
Pesren
Gamefounded! Colorful, and the polyomino co-op puzzle space is definitely a niche we didn't have covered, so I'm optimistic on this one. I've lost a lot of patience with the development here and I'm mildly concerned that this will be a very thinky game with huge setup, so I find myself waffling if I should sell this given its sizeable cost. However, disappointed about the multi-year delay. Not impressed with publisher's communication on that front, or how apparently little they were into development.