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2010 Ranked #1,532

Onirim

Solo dream-labyrinth card game where a Dreamwalker seeks oneiric doors before time runs out. Each room choice can bring a needed key or deepen the maze, forcing careful hand management against the threat of being trapped forever.

Family Games Card Game Exploration Set Collection Solo / Solitaire Game

Players

1-2

Play time

Not listed

Age

8+

Complexity

1.65/5

Rating

6.63

Harder to teach Low interaction Deep strategy

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.9/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.1/5

High replayability

Interaction 1.7/5

Low interaction

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?

You are a Dreamwalker, lost in a mysterious labyrinth, and you must discover the oneiric doors before your dreamtime runs out – or you will remain trapped forever!

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You are a Dreamwalker, lost in a mysterious labyrinth, and you must discover the oneiric doors before your dreamtime runs out – or you will remain trapped forever! You may wander through the chambers of dreams, hoping that chance will reveal the doors, or you can linger in each type of room. In both cases, you will have to deal with the slithering Nightmares, which haunt the hallways of the labyrinth. Onirim is a solo/cooperative card game. You (and a partner) must work (together) against the game to gather the eight Door cards before the deck runs out; you can obtain those Door cards either by playing cards of the same color three turns in a row, or by discarding (under specific circumstances) one of your powerful Key cards. In both cases you will have to decide the best use of each card in your hand and carefully play around the Nightmares. Those cards are hidden in the deck and will trigger painful dilemmas when drawn... Basic Deck: 8 Door cards - two each of red, blue, green and brown 10 Nightmare cards 58 Labyrinth cards: 16 red chambers: 3 keys, 4 moons, 9 suns 15 blue chambers: 3 keys, 4 moons, 8 suns 14 green chambers: 3 keys, 4 moons, 7 suns 13 brown chambers: 3 keys, 4 moons, 6 suns Three mini-expansions, all standalone and compatible with one another, are included with the basic game: "The Towers" introduces a new type of card that allows more searching and deck manipulation, while also imposing an additional victory condition. "Happy Dreams and Dark Premonitions" adds evil time bombs that will impede your progress at predictable moments of your quest as well as helpful but unreliable allies. In "The Book of Steps Lost and Found", you must find the eight Door cards in a randomly given order and may remove discarded cards from the game to cast powerful spells that will help you complete this difficult task.

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Play and group

Players
1–2
Best with
1–2
Play time
15 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.7/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Shadi Torbey

Artists

1
Élise Plessis

Publishers

1
Z-Man Games