This is no ordinary city. Many have been there more than once, but at the same time no one has ever been there. You know in which state it is, but you won’t be able to find it on the world map. This is not a real city… yet many board game enthusiasts know this city much better than many other real-world cities. Welcome to Arkham, Massachusetts.
In Arkham Travel Guide, you become a guide and create tour routes through the grim and narrow streets of Arkham, full of Curio shops, mysterious Gates and Horrible places. During the game, players roll and collectively choose dice that determine where players can draw tourists and chart routes.
Your goal is to create a route with as many tourists and landmarks of different types as possible, as they score you victory points. Before the end of the game, you will be confronted by the Old One. Depending on how well you avoided Horrible places and used special abilities provided by otherworldly creatures, you either gain rewards or lose tourists.
At the end of the game, tourists and attractions in city blocks along your route earn you victory points. You also get victory points for Personal Objectives and Old Ones’ rewards. The player with the most victory points wins the game!
Arkham, Massachusetts is not the only notable city in the Lovecraftian universe, and we’re already working on Innsmouth! It’s a jewel of the coast… or that’s what they want people to believe to attract unsuspecting tourists!
More cities are under development, so make sure your tourists survive Arkham and Innsmouth – there are more destinations to visit!
Does Arkham Tour Guide sound fun, but you want to create tour routes for real cities too? Check out En Route, a stroll&write board game based on the same mechanisms, but taking them to a whole new level.
The game features a card-sharing mechanic unique to Flip-&-Write games, which greatly reduces the impact of randomness, allows players to strategize and provides meaningful and intense player interaction.
In the box, there are six real cities (plus one fictional with many geeky easter eggs!) of different difficulty levels with distinct gameplay and their own additional rules that reflect the specifics of each city.
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