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?
Guide a Moʻo spirit around a shared rondel, raise colored tiki columns, and shape volcanic majorities before every forest empties.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
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Kilauea is an interactive rondel game inspired by Hawaiian mythology. Players guide Moʻo spirits between actions that gather tikis from changing forests, build columns around the volcano, or develop a personal island. Scoring is triggered as forests empty, and each volcanic color gains value from the strength of its surrounding columns. Those values multiply the matching tikis on personal islands, making every public placement a negotiation between improving a color and giving rivals a richer multiplier.
