Following a successful Kickstarter, APE Games is preparing to release a cube tower game next month. In The Stygian Society, designed by Kevin Wilson, players will cooperate to send their heroes up through a wizard’s tower taking on villainous baddies along the way to the top. The game is for one to four players, ages 14+, plays in around 60-120 minutes, and will carry an MSRP of $70.00 when it arrives in August.
From Ape Games:
Kind folk, we have firm evidence that wizards have infiltrated us. Those who channel the eldritch forces through their body, mind, and soul – those who slowly lose their grasp on sanity and humanity have taken positions of power in our great country. They constructed towers from which to rule over the surrounding countryside and gathered minions by either creating them with foul enchantments or by corrupting their fellow citizens to guard their tower against intrusion.
Therefore, Be It Resolved
By order of Emperor Francis Joseph I, the country once again calls upon The Stygian Society in this dark time. You brave men and women are hereby charged with the task of keeping our Fair Austria free of these wizards. It is your goal to battle your way up the tower, encounter and defeat the wizard.
The Stygian Society is a co-operative cube tower, dungeon crawl. Heroes work together to climb the cube tower; eliminating enemies as they work their way to the top and to the tower’s master.
Players take on roles of different heroes, all fighting their way up the wizard’s tower one floor at a time.
Instead of rolling dice to defeat enemies, players drop cubes into the tower. The cubes are dependent on which skills the player has selected for the hero.
Cubes are also dropped into the tower for the enemies they are battling.
Players perform actions for themselves and their enemies as cubes fall out of the tower. Cubes may fall directly down, or become dislodged only to fall out on a future turn. Some cubes may even fall into the crypt, where they will count double.
Beware of the mini-boss and wizard on the tower’s third and sixth floors!
If your heroes take too long to defeat enemies or receive too many wounds, the wizard may take the win. However! If the players defeat the wizard on the top level of the cube tower- you immediately win!