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?
Cooperate as prophets, remove sin and idols, gather resources, and build altars before Assyria or corruption overwhelms Israel.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Action Points
Spend a limited allowance of points across several possible actions each turn.
Cooperative Game
Players coordinate their actions toward a shared objective and win or lose together.
Hand Management
Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
Set Collection
Gather related items that become more valuable when scored together.
Point-to-Point Movement
Move along explicit connections between named locations or nodes.
Variable Player Powers
Each player has different abilities, restrictions, or strategic advantages.
Read the full game description
Kings of Israel is a cooperative game in which players take the roles of prophets working during the reigns of Israel’s historical kings. Each round begins with the current king’s godliness affecting the kingdom, after which sin and idols spread among connected cities. Prophets then spend action points to travel, preach, remove corruption, gather resources, build altars, and use asymmetric abilities. Event and sin cards introduce new problems, while food and other resources must be managed across the group. The prophets win by building the required altars before the Assyrian threat reaches its conclusion; they lose if sin, idols, or shortages overwhelm the kingdom first. The challenge is to coordinate routes and priorities before local crises become a national collapse.
