An interesting looking board game, from newcomers Fantasia Games, is doing very well on Kickstarter. In Endless Winter: Paleoamericans, players will lead their individual prehistoric tribes in a quest for survival and prosperity. The game is for one to four players, ages 12+, and plays in around 50 to 90 minutes. The project is well past the 700% funding level and you can reserve a copy of the game, including the Ancestors expansion and Familiars module plus stretch goals, for a $60.00 pledge through November 17th.
About the project:
Endless Winter: Paleoamericans takes place in North America, around 10,000 BCE. Players guide the development of their tribes across several generations—from nomadic hunter-gatherers to prosperous tribal societies. Over the course of the game, tribes migrate and settle new lands, establish cultural traditions, hunt paleolithic megafauna, and build everlasting megalithic structures.
Endless Winter is a euro-style game that combines worker placement and deck building in an innovative way. Each round, players send their tribe members to various action spaces, and pay for the actions by playing cards and spending resources. Tribe cards grant additional labor, while Culture cards provide a variety of unique effects. As an alternative, cards can be saved for an end-of-round Eclipse phase, where they are simultaneously revealed to determine the new player order, and trigger various bonus actions.
The game features a novel blend of interwoven systems and mechanisms, such as multi-use cards, area influence, tile placement, and set collection. Plus, there are many viable paths to victory. After four brisk rounds, scores are tallied, and the tribe with the most points wins!