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2024 Ranked #1,488

Clank! Legacy 2: Acquisitions Incorporated – Darkest Magic

The dungeon is changing, the bosses are listening, and corporate expects results. Make enough noise to get rich—just not enough to become a cautionary entry in the Book of Secrets.

Thematic Games Adventure Legacy Game Push Your Luck Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game

Players

2-4

Play time

60-120 min

Age

8+

Complexity

2.75/5

Rating

8.51

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 3.1/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 4.3/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 3.8/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 3.8/5

Deep strategy

Player control 4.1/5

More strategic control

Setup time About 15 min
Teach time About 20 min
Table footprint Large
Recommended edition Clank! Legacy 2: Acquisitions Incorporated – Darkest Magic – Dire Wolf English edition (2024)
Not fully resettable
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How it plays

How does it play?

Build decks, explore an evolving campaign map, face dangerous bosses, and balance teamwork with personal profit in Acquisitions Incorporated’s newest franchise.

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Clank! Legacy 2: Acquisitions Incorporated – Darkest Magic returns to the noisy deck-building adventures of Clank! as a twelve-game legacy campaign. Players begin as employees of an Acquisitions Incorporated franchise, using skill to recruit cards, swords to defeat monsters, and boots to move through a shared dungeon. Valuable artifacts tempt everyone deeper, but cards can also add coloured cubes to the Clank area; whenever the dragon attacks, those cubes are drawn into the damage track. Darkest Magic layers an evolving map, sealed discoveries, stickers, character journals, and a Book of Secrets onto that familiar push-your-luck system. Missions can demand cooperation against bosses and campaign threats, yet individual employees still compete for treasure, advancement, and long-term advantages. Choices alter routes, unlock cards, name locations, and change rules for later sessions. New tagging and character-development systems let each participant shape a distinct deck and identity across the campaign. A free Dire Wolf companion app can narrate passages and track mission reports, but the physical book and sheets remain sufficient. After the campaign, the personalized board and card pool become a replayable custom Clank! set, preserving the group’s decisions without requiring the same story to be reset.

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Edition Year Language Publisher / Region
Clank! Legacy 2: Acquisitions Incorporated – Darkest Magic – Dire Wolf English edition (2024) 2024 English Dire Wolf / US

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Play and group

Players
2–4
Play time
60–120 min
Age
8+
Complexity
2.8/5
App
Optional app Source
Player elimination
No Source

Practicalities

Setup time
About 15 min Source
Teach time
About 20 min Source
Teardown time
About 15 min Source
Table footprint
Large Source

Campaign and continuity

Resettable
Not Resettable Source
Save system
Campaign checkpoints occur between games; keep each player deck and character materials together and record mission reports before packing away. Source
Consumable components
Permanent stickers, writing, sealed content, and other legacy components change the game during the twelve-game campaign. Source

Edition and product

Optional extras
The free Dire Wolf Game Room companion app is optional and can narrate Book of Secrets passages and track campaign mission reports. Source
Recommended edition
Clank! Legacy 2: Acquisitions Incorporated – Darkest Magic – Dire Wolf English edition (2024) Source
Language
English
Region
US
Availability
Current
Edition type
Standard Source
Current edition
Yes Source
Consumable components
Permanent Stickers, Campaign Writing, Sealed Packets, And Other Legacy Discoveries. Source
Compatibility
Dire Wolf English Retail Edition, Sku Dwd04003 And Barcode 810058800275; A Standalone Campaign That Reimplements Ideas From Clank! And The First Clank! Legacy. Source
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Jay E. Treat, III

Publishers

1
Dire Wolf