Red Rising

BGG Rank: 1025

Players: 1 - 6, Recommended: 6, Best: 6

Playing Time: 60 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.32 / 5

Mechanisms: Dice Rolling, End Game Bonuses, Hand Management, Open Drafting, Set Collection, Solo / Solitaire Game, Take That, Variable Player Powers

Category: Card Game, Novel-based, Science Fiction

Family: Card Games: Draw and Discard, Crowdfunding: Spieleschmiede, Digital Implementations: Tabletopia, Misc: Watch It Played How To Videos, Organizations: Automa Factory, Players: Games with Solitaire Rules

Designer: Alexander Schmidt (II), Jamey Stegmaier

Artist: Miles Bensky, Jacqui Davis, Justin Wong (II)

Publisher: Stonemaier Games, Albi, Automa Factory, Corax Games, Delta Vision Publishing, Geekach LLC, Ghenos Games, Grok Games, Lavka Games, Ludofy Creative, Maldito Games, Matagot, PHALANX, sternenschimmermeer

Category: Worker Placement

Enter the futuristic universe of Red Rising, based on the book series by Pierce Brown featuring a dystopian society divided into fourteen castes. You represent a house attempting to rise to power as you piece together an assortment of followers (represented by your hand of cards). Will you break the chains of the Society or embrace the dominance of the Golds? Red Rising is a hand-management, combo-building game for 1-6 players (45-60 minute playing time). You start with a hand of 5 cards, and on your turn you will deploy 1 of those cards to a location on the board, activating that card’s deploy benefit. You will then gain the top card from another location (face up) or the deck (face down), gaining that location's benefit and adding the card to your hand as you enhance your end-game point total. If at any point you’re really happy with your hand, you can instead use your turn to reveal a card from the top of the deck and place it on a location to gain that location’s benefit. —description from the publisher

Average Playing Time	2-4 hours
Best Player Count	3 Best
Collection	Kevin
Difficulty	Standard
Played	Unplayed
Recommended Player Count	Solo, 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players

ragingworker rated: N/A/10

Garage Sale Amazon sale. Need to table this one and review. Love the books, need to see what all the shiny is about.

ajewo rated: N/A/10

Red Rising is a hand-management, combo-building card game by Stonemaier Games (Scythe, Wingspan) with multi-used cards. You either play cards for their effects or you keep them in your hand to score them at the end of the game. Each time you play a card, you then pick either a new card from the draw deck or from the public display that contains the cards played by all players so far. [b]Pros:[/b] + Design of the cards is very clean. The ability texts are brief and pregnant. + Hand management, multi-used cards and decision-making: you are constantly reason to play or keep a particular card similar to Fantasy Realms (long-time vs short-time benefits). + Discarded cards can be picked up by opponents and played again (similar to Lost Cities). There are four discard areas. If you discard a card, you have to decide to which area - only the latest, topmost card can be picked by the players. + Game arc: at some point in the game, you shift from engine building to scoring victory points. + Each player represents one of six houses. Each house provides a unique ability. + Players can advance on the fleet track which unlocks effects on some cards. + Fluid gameplay, quick turns. + Player aids. [b]Neutrals:[/b] # Components: feels a bit overproduced. # Dystopian theme is based on a book series by Pierce Brown. # Plays well solo and with 2 players. # Luck of the draw. # Artwork: colorful, cyberpunkish drawn characters. # Sparkling effect on gold cards (deluxe edition). # Metallic cubes are hard to distinguish in sun light (deluxe edition). # Some take-that cards. # Game box could have been smaller. Special insert only for deluxe edition. [b]Similar games:[/b] * Fantasy Realms: similar hand management, combo-building, scoring. * Lost Cities: similar hand management. * Capital Lux 2

Cattalystt rated: N/A/10

Numbered first collector's edition

TalksToChalk rated: N/A/10

Set Collection

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Collector’s Edition

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mellow300 rated: N/A/10

grg - 142

crusador84 rated: N/A/10

FOR SALE: £40

verum rated: N/A/10