Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Easier to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Player-count sensitive
Light strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Draft ruined locations from a shared river and build a resource-rich pyramid of discoveries in a tense two-player duel.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Read the full game description
Boreal is a two-player card-drafting game about explorers recovering knowledge from the ruins of a lost world. A shared row of site cards presents the available discoveries, while each explorer’s compass track determines what can be afforded and reached. Cards may be built into a ten-card pyramid or reserved for later, and exposed sites replenish the resources needed for future construction. Every placement changes both access and scoring, producing a brisk contest of timing, denial, and efficient tableau building.
