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2023 Ranked #12,107

Portals

Abstract strategy game has travelers draft elemental stones, complete keys, and open portals for points. Shared boards ensure every placement can disrupt rivals, while matching colors and adjacency reward careful planning.

Abstract Strategy Fantasy Hidden Victory Points Open Drafting

Players

1-4

Play time

40-80 min

Age

10+

Complexity

2.33/5

Rating

6.84

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 4.1/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.4/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.7/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

The great wizard Dominick Dey discovered a way to travel between different worlds using elemental magic, and spent centuries bringing back amazing artifacts, strange fruits, and exotic creatures. But one day he did not return home, and his fate remains unknown.

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The great wizard Dominick Dey discovered a way to travel between different worlds using elemental magic, and spent centuries bringing back amazing artifacts, strange fruits, and exotic creatures. But one day he did not return home, and his fate remains unknown. In this abstract game, you are travelers between worlds. Your task is to follow the path of the famous wizard, collecting magic keys and using them to open portals to other worlds. Only a mage whose mastery rivals Dominick Dey’s will find him first and win the game! During the game, players draft fabulous Elemental stones to complete various shapes on Key cards. By activating completed Key cards, players fill Elemental boards with stones and gain Victory Points for matching colors and adjacency. Game Features Easy to learn, hard to master. Start playing quickly, get better with every game. Close interaction. You share everything with other players, so you’ll inevitably mess someone’s plans up. Tactical variability. There’s no ‘one size fits all’ winning strategy. Additional modules. Additional challenges to spice things up. Beautiful components. Vibrant colors, a player-friendly design and stones that are great to play with. Solo mode. Great and crunchy puzzle to enjoy alone. —description from the publisher

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Play and group

Players
1–4
Best with
1–4
Play time
40–80 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.3/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Maxim Istomin

Artists

3
Ulyana Grebeneva Jamil Isimov Maxim Istomin

Publishers

1
CrowD Games

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