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Raxxon

Trigger of the outbreak or saviour?

In the setting of Winter der Toten, the infected have breached the quarantine area and the healthy population must be evacuated. A substance meant to be a miracle remedy, produced by Raxxon Pharmaceuticals is rumored to be responsible for this; the rumor justifies the involvement of the corporation because of its special knowledge.

Rounds of the game are days comprising phases: 1. Auflauf der Menschenmenge with placing face-down population cards for human crowds. 2. Spieleraktionen comprising triggering of all current character consequences and then in turn of selecting and resolving an available action on the character sheet - e.g. research cards, evacuate, air attack / offensive, quarantine, interference with manipulation population cards or character-specific action. A player can also pass and is then inactive for the rest of the day. When a card with Evening symbol appears, the player action phase ends immediately. 3.  Abend with removing action marks from character sheets and infecting healthy population by free infected cards.

Players win when all healthy population cards are relocated to the evacuation zone; they lose when the power of Raxxon exceeds Eight or if the Source of Infection is empty of cards when an infection is triggered.

A thrilling and challenging game with a sophisticated mix of chance from the cards and an as optimum as possible planning of actions; cooperation is essential and must be efficient, but a danger of domination by one player is inherent. The core mechanisms are rather simple, the allure is in the rising difficulty from the rising number of Zombies and the story development from the Raxxon cards.

Players: 1-4

Age: 14+

Time: 60+

Designer: Arthur J. Ellis

Art: Fernanda Suarez, Kendall Wilkerson

Price: ca. 38 Euro

Publisher: Plaid Hat Games / Asmodee 2018

Web: www.asmodee.de

Genre: Zombies, card relocation

Users: With friends

Special: 1 player

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr ru

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Sophisticated story dramaturgy

Compares to:

All games with a Zombie vs. Humans topic

Elegant mix of chance and cooperative planning

Simple core mechanisms

Other editions:

Crowd Games (ru), Edge Entertainment (es), Plaid hat (en fr),

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 3

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0