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2016 Ranked #5,529

Kreus

A cooperative deduction game has Titans secretly choose elements and create the features needed for a living planet. Limited communication and hidden choices make trust essential when combining cards into the right creations.

Card Game Deduction Communication Limits Cooperative Game

Players

3-6

Play time

20-30 min

Age

10+

Complexity

2/5

Rating

6.62

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 3.6/5

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?

In this cooperative game, the players embody Titans avid to create together the ideal planet. Will you know how to dominate the nature and the elements, and worse still the anger of your father Ouranos, to realize the planet of your dreams?

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In this cooperative game, the players embody Titans avid to create together the ideal planet. Will you know how to dominate the nature and the elements, and worse still the anger of your father Ouranos, to realize the planet of your dreams? A cunning and intuitive game where deduction and cooperation will be the key words. To manage to create your planet, and to bring him the life, you will have to think together, communicate subtly, trust the other players or understand of instinct. The purpose of the game is to manage to create together a planet. To have a finished and thus livable planet, it will be necessary to pass by various creations: rainbow, river, fish, etc, and completed by element cards : earth, air, fire, water. A turn of game decomposes into two phases: the divination and the creation. During the phase of divination, every player chooses in secret a card of his hand and spends his tokens energy to give information, exchange cards, etc. Then, in the phase of creation, every player reveals his card in turn order and verifies if it can be involvement. The game ends when all the cards were played or if the planet is completed.

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Play and group

Players
3–6
Best with
3–6
Play time
20–30 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Julien Prothière

Artists

1
Tom Prothière

Publishers

3
2Tomatoes Games CMON Global Limited Sweet Games

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