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?
Search a hostile Manhattan for the President, tape, and bridge diagram—then escape together or betray the team for a private objective.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Tile Placement
Place tiles to build a shared or personal spatial arrangement.
Semi-Cooperative Game
Players share some objectives while retaining individual victory conditions.
Deck Construction
Build a deck before play by selecting cards under defined construction rules.
Hand Management
Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
Take That
Use Take That as a recurring structure for player decisions and resolution.
Read the full game description
Escape from New York is a cooperative and potentially semi-cooperative adventure based on John Carpenter’s film. Snake Plissken and the other heroes enter a modular Manhattan built from location tiles, searching for the President, the nuclear-fusion tape, and a route across the mined bridge before time runs out. Gangs, encounters, wounds, weapons, and limited movement create a tense shared mission, while personal objectives can tempt a player to break away and pursue victory alone. The game supports solo play and different hero combinations, with exploration gradually revealing the prison city and escalating the pressure from the Duke’s forces.
