Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Defend the founders of Gravehold with shuffle-free deck building, new mages and nemeses, and the evolving Friends & Foes module.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Cooperative Game
Players coordinate their actions toward a shared objective and win or lose together.
Deck / Bag Building
Add new pieces during play to improve the cards, tokens, or dice drawn later.
Hand Management
Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
Open Drafting
Select cards or items from a shared face-up display.
Variable Player Powers
Each player has different abilities, restrictions, or strategic advantages.
Chit-Pull System
Draw tokens to determine which units, factions, or events activate next.
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Read the full game description
Aeon’s End: The Descent is a standalone cooperative deck-building game about the perilous founding of Gravehold. Players become breach mages, purchase spells and relics from a shared supply, prepare magic in open breaches, and coordinate against a nemesis controlled by an unpredictable turn-order deck. As in the wider Aeon’s End system, player decks are never shuffled; discard order becomes a strategic tool for planning future hands. A replayable narrative links battles without requiring permanent changes, while the new Friends & Foes module introduces independent allies and adversaries with their own initiative cards and behavior decks. All included material can also integrate with compatible Aeon’s End sets.
