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
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Draft scenes into three-act plays, arrange dramatic symbols around key cards, and outscore a rival playwright at Athens’ grand festival.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Read the full game description
Dionysia is a two-player drafting and pattern-building game played with eighteen cards. Each turn, a player takes a scene from the central stage and adds it to a developing drama, either beginning a new act or extending the top or bottom of an existing one. Every play may contain up to three acts of three scenes, and the key scene at the top of each act determines both its power and the pattern that act will score. When both dramas are complete, careful composition earns the favor of the gods.
