Adventure Realms

Adventure Realms is a strategic board game that combines mechanics like worker placement and deck building. Players take on the role of adventurers who recruit heroes, expand their influence within guilds, and venture into dangerous dungeons to overcome challenges and earn rewards.

Throughout the game, players can acquire powerful elemental stones. These resources can be used to upgrade certain items and heroes, giving them advantages throughout the game and potentially earning additional victory points at the end.

Another way to earn victory points and progress is by completing quests. These tasks place specific demands on the players and their heroes. If players find themselves in a difficult situation in the deeper levels of the dungeons, they can use magic cards from their deck to influence the game and potentially gain control over the situation.

Adventure Realms features 16-bit graphics that pay homage to classic video games. The game design is by Peter Jank, who was also responsible for Quest for the Lost Pixel.

During their turn, players play one of their Hero cards and choose a Hero space on the game board. These spaces grant players certain rewards. Additionally, the Hero card they play grants players resources or special abilities that they can use during their current turn.

A special incentive is that the player whose adventurer has progressed the furthest into the dungeon receives a special first-player reward. The game ends as soon as one player reaches a total of 10 victory points.