Title:

STEM Epic Heroes

Description:
STEM: Epic Heroes is a fun and fast paced game that is easily picked up by new players, while providing a light layer of depth for seasoned gamers.

Your goal is to use Heroes to make discoveries, enhance your score with items and locations, and use inspiration cards to accelerate your progress and disrupt your opponents. Core mechanics are based around competitive set collection with some take that elements.

The Game has 2 decks. The Hero Deck and the Discovery Deck. Play begins with all players being dealt a hand from the Hero Deck. This will include your Heroes, Items, Locations, and Inspiration Cards.

Discovery Cards are dealt face up to the middle of the table and represent the steps of the scientific method. You compete over these cards to score points.


Play your Epic Heroes to acquire Discovery Cards based on the hero’s Type (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Polymath), depicted by color and icon. All heroes have Special Abilities! Learn how to best use these abilities to gain the advantage!


Add Item and Location Cards to your heroes to enhance their scoring potential and increase the value of your discoveries. Some items and locations are stronger when played with certain Hero Abilities, further increasing score.


Play Inspiration Cards to instantly change the game! These cards may be played even if it’s not your turn. They accelerate your progress, disrupt your opponents, and protect you from other player’s inspiration cards.


When a player has completed all 5 steps of the Scientific Method, the game ends and players count up their points. Whoever has earned the most points wins.

BGG:
A fun, simple, fast paced card game in which you team up with the greatest minds in history in an epic race to make discoveries. Unleash the special abilities of Heroes such as Nikola Tesla, Emmy Noether, and George Washington Carver to try to outwit and outplay your opponents.

STEM: Epic Heroes is a game that is easily picked up by new players, while providing a light layer of strategic depth for seasoned gamers.

Your goal is to use Heroes to make discoveries, enhance your score with items and locations, and use inspiration cards to instantly accelerate your progress and disrupt your opponents. Core mechanics are based around competitive set collection with some take that elements.

Components:
118 cards (63x88mm):
64 Hero Deck cards (blue backs): 30 Heroes (6 each of Science (green), Mathematics (yellow), Engineering (purple), Technology (blue), Polymaths (black);
14 Inspiration cards (immediate actions);
12 Items (3 each Science, Math, Engineering, Technology);
8 Locations (2 each Science, Math, Engineering, Technology)

44 Discovery cards (green backs): 5 each Science, Math, Engineering, Technology; 5 each dual color (blue/green, green/purple, purple/ yellow, yellow/ blue); 4 Wild Step cards (2 each color).

10 Challenge cards (yellow backs).

Rule booklet, including brief scientist biographies (English, 28 p.).
Max Number of Players:
2 to 4
Barcode:
860220000606
Category:
Strategy
Educational
Trivia
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Publisher:
Hologrin, Inc.
Playing Time:
30
Year Published:
2017
Designer:
Jason Jones, Court Simas,... Aaron Hanna
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Artist:
George Doutsiopoulos
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Suggested Ages:
14+
Family:
Science Games
Date Added:
2019-10-04 10:11:50
Date Added:
2019-10-04 10:11:50
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