‘Scythe’ Board Game Nears $1.25 Million Mark on Kickstarter

A mighty interesting board game has taken Kickstarter by storm and is now nearing the $1.25 million dollar mark in pledges with over a week to go. Scythe challenges up to five players to create an empire and dominate their opponents in an alternate history timeline. Stonemaier Games has already made a name for themselves with hot hits like Viticulture and Euphoria and the new project looks amazing as well. There’s still time to get on board and reserve a copy of Scythe at the $59 pledge level.

About the project:

Create an empire with monstrous mechs and industrious workers in this alternate-history, 115-minute board game for 1-5 competitors.

Designed by Jamey Stegmaier (Viticulture & Euphoria) and based on the art and worldbuilding of Jakub Rozalski, Scythe is a 4x game (explore, expand, exploit, exterminate) set in an alternate-history, 1920s Eastern Europe. Scythe tells the stories of 5 factions competing over an unclaimed patch of land surrounding the mysterious Factory.

During Scythe’s 750+ blind playtests, the playtesters consistently said they most enjoyed:

• the dual benefits of the upgrade system (increase an action benefit and decrease a cost)
• the distinctly different faction and mech abilities
• the thematic choices presented by the encounter cards
• the asymmetry and variability created by random pairings of faction and player mats
• the twist to area control due to all resources being kept on the board

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