Darkrock Ventures

Darkrock Ventures is a worker placement game about mining and exporting in a hostile outer space. Players will be controlling a mining company working in harsh conditions to acquire the most credits.

GENERAL INFO: A euro game for 1-5 players that plays in about 30-45 minutes.

A worker placement game about mining and exporting in hostile outer-space. Players will control a mining company working in harsh conditions to acquire the most credits to win.

Competitive worker-placement meets clever dice-manipulation. Take control of your own asteroid mining company and compete to extract the most minerals for the most cash before the asteroid is depleted. Also, you’re all under constant assault by alien marauders! Includes Solo and Co-Op variant expansions.

THEME: Science Fiction. Space is a hostile environment with a known alien presence. Resources are scarce and it is commonplace for companies to mine asteroids to acquire them. It is known that aliens raid these asteroids and therefore mining companies are geared accordingly in preparation of being attacked. Lives are lost in this line of work daily, but if you run a good crew you can make it out alive and rich!

HOOK: Richly thematic euro incorporating dice and dice manipulation, with worker placement, resource farming and exporting.

WINNING CONDITION: Highest Credits when the end of the game is triggered. Credits are acquired primarily from exporting minerals mined from the asteroid.

MECHANICS: A round begins with rolling a set of Power Dice, these are community dice that players will use in order to successfully mine the asteroid. Players then take turns placing workers throughout different space stations and on a mineral rich asteroid.

After all the workers have been placed a third and more volatile Power Die is rolled. A player starts his/her turn by rolling his/her Rig Dice, these represent the a power element of his/her mining equipment that is to be paired with the community Power Dice in order to successfully mine resources from the asteroid. Then he/she resolves all his/her workers. As soon as players begin exporting minerals, hostile alien ships begin patrolling and will attack every round making it more difficult to resolve all the workers successfully.

Throughout the game, players will be increasing their worker count, gaining and spending credits (which are the victory points), gaining additional Rig Dice and acquiring explosive Neutronium bombs to protect them from the alien attacks.

When 3 of the 6 resource nodes on the asteroid are void of minerals the end of the game is triggered. The round is finished and the player with the most credits wins the game.

Darkrock Ventures will also include special 2-player game rules, as well as a Solo/Co-Operative variant.

COMPONENTS:
Cardboard:
1 Game Board, 14”x14”
5 Mining Vessel Tracker cards (Player Boards; one of each player color - red, yellow, blue, green, pink; 12.4x8.7cm)
1 Leader Token/Turn order reference card (87x87mm)
1 Neutronium Track board (12.4x8.7cm; for Co-op expansion)

41 Cards (62x87mm):
12 Corporate Sponsor cards
14 Therion Marauder cards
15 Research cards

Wood:
5 Large ”Captain” Meeples (one of each player color)
20 Small ”Crew” Meeples (four of each player color)
5 Score-Tracking tokens (one of each player color)
5 Cargo-Lock tokens, (one of each player color)
36 Resource tokens (10x orange squares [Iron], 8x blue hexes [Cobalt], 6x white octogons [Platinum], 6x red hex-rings [Neutronium], 6x yellow flames [Solar Energy]
10 Damage tokens [orange starbursts] - Co-op mode
5 Disintegration tokens [black starbursts] - Co-op mode

Plastic:
18 Translucent Six-Sided Dice (11mm; 3 of each player color, plus 2 clear, 1 black with red pips)

Rulebook (20 p.).

1-5

728028405033

Magic Meeple Games

60

2016

14+

2018-06-21 11:57:36

~$19.98

2025-11-19

2018-06-21 11:57:36