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2022 Ranked #813

Keep The Heroes Out!

Cooperative dungeon-defense game where monsters protect their treasure from invading heroes. Cards move and activate each monster faction, but escalating hero threats demand the team defend every room before the main hoard is stolen.

Thematic Games Fantasy Action Retrieval Area Movement Category: Tower Defense

Players

1-4

Play time

40-50 min

Age

10+

Complexity

2.38/5

Rating

8.02

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

An asymmetric, cooperative dungeon defense game for 1-4 players where you play as the monsters protecting their hard earned treasures against invading hordes of looters (so-called heroes) trying to steal it.

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An asymmetric, cooperative dungeon defense game for 1-4 players where you play as the monsters protecting their hard earned treasures against invading hordes of looters (so-called heroes) trying to steal it. In their turn players draw 5 cards and play, these cards allow them to move, activate the tiles they are to perform the tiles actions, attack heroes, and move their units around. After each player, draw and perform cards from the heroes deck. Your goal as a team in every scenario is to survive the 3 levels of threat from the invading heroes by protecting the treasures on each room. If the main treasure is taken, the game ends and you lose, but if you manage to protect the treasures for long enough, you all win. —description from the designer

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Play and group

Players
1–4
Best with
1–3
Play time
40–50 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.4/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Luís Brueh

Artists

1
Luís Brueh

Publishers

1
Brueh Games Inc.

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