In ancient prehistoric times, you have discovered a new land with plentiful lakes, mountains and forests (and apparently many stone rocks that shall be called dice). Your people can develop new things like basketry or find oxen or simply GROW and conquer.
In Rise of Tribes, players control a tribal faction in prehistoric times looking to GROW, MOVE, GATHER, and LEAD their people. The board is modular, composed of hexes in various terrain types. Each hex has a population limit. Players manage the number of tribe members they place on any one hex to either trigger or avoid conflict.
Each turn the active player rolls two dice, then selects two of the four actions to take – GROW, MOVE, GATHER, and/or LEAD. Each action is resolved one action at a time. The power of each action taken depends on the die roll plus the last couple of dice placed onto the action board on the selected action by other players. Once both actions are taken, the active player resolves any Conflicts. The final step of each turn is the time to build villages and complete goal cards.
Victory is possible in a couple ways: gathering resources to build villages and/or completing development and achievement goal cards for your civilization. Villages (limited to 1 per hex) score 1 point for the tribe that built them at the start of that tribe’s turn. Goal cards will score points immediately when completed. Every tribe’s ambition is to score 15 points. The tribe to score 15 points first wins the game.
Solo mode, with the addition of Rise of Tribes: The Vul’Keth Invasion (required and sold separately), is a very challenging way to play Rise of Tribes.
Rise of Tribes – Microbadges
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brewsaki
Components are cheap. The game is super abstract. You're basically adding meeples to a board and trying to control areas in order to complete missions which score you point. There is a bunch of uninteresting mechanics pasted on top of that. I have no desire to play it again.
alexandrehamelin
Surprising depth yet very simple, every game has been fast and fun so far. Much more strategic than you'd think at first glance. Whatever randomness is very well balanced by the mechanics, it never feels unfair to roll badly, you can always make up for it in cleverness. Wow.
Aredan1528
Not a fan of this game at all map is really small feels either too easy to ignore opponents and get what you need or you have to just constantly attack opponents to get the real feel of the game and that's not my thing.