"Dreaming permits every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." – Kickstarter Lucidity by William Demet The Etherfields experience does not wait for you. Opening the box and swimming in the components is immediately a totality of wonder as well as a criticism of human perception. The consistent polarity of internal concepts is the most common of themes herein.
Etherfields is a new major miniature Board Game by which you can play anytime with friends or strangers on your account!
Game features:
The unique theme that combines board game elements with an immersive approach to storytelling;
4-8 hours long game length;
Unique 3D art style;
Original soundtrack composed by Tobias Freund;
Artwork designed by Stefan Tassenwolff;
Many special mechanics such as ability & equipment cards, dice pool mechanic, etc.;
Player skill system based on role-playing principles;
Playable solo or cooperative mode;
No handbooks are needed, just map and tokens;
Story line-driven gameplay;
Optional rules for free play version available upon request;
Free-form sandbox design allows creation of anything from simple dungeon crawls to elaborate campaigns;
Easy to learn but hard to master due to complex mechanisms;
2nd edition already tested and ready to publish;
Future updates planned along with regular expansions;
Fully playable online via multiple platforms including PC, Mac, iOS devices, and Android phones and tablets.
Tobias Freund is a German designer who has been working professionally since 2005. He started his career designing games such as Dead Island and Shadowrun Returns. After being involved in many successful projects, he decided to start his own company called Awake Realms GmbH, in partnership with Awaken Realms. We call this different BG experience a Dream Crawler – you will dive into a surreal and artistically crafted world and follow one of a kind co-op/solo campaign adventure for 1-4 players. Everything you do will change the strange rhythm of the Etherfields dream world, where even the wildest fantasy is possible. Gameplay created by the Board Game veteran Michał Oracz (author of This War of Mine: TBG, Neuroshima Hex or The Edge: Dawnfall, etc), will test not only your logic skills but also your intuition, deduction, and emotional intelligence. Develop your character from scratch using advanced deck-building, travel through the dream-world map, and delve deeper into selected locations.
It's an amazing well of creativity! This one is a real puzzler, it's so vastly different from anything. "Excited about this one!"- Ant Lab Games "Etherfields is as a surreal and meaningful journey into a dream world that begs to be discovered." - Man vs Meeple "Etherfields is an immersive experience. The constant state of discovery and the unknown keeps you glued to the table. The game mechanisms are well integrated and just pull you deeper and deeper into this dream world. A dream world I don't want to leave!" - Rolling solo "Etherfields is a magical combination of mechanics, card-driven story, and an experience that just draws you in and does not want to let go." - theMCGuiRE review "Creative use of components and fantastic art delivers on the idea of adventures in the dream world; creating an immersive and evocative experience." - Ready Steady Play. All in all, Etherfields is a unique and very, very cool game. It has a strong narrative, it got amazing components and amazing artwork!" - Crabbok "From the beginning, I liked this a little weird, mysterious, a bit twisted, an abstract atmosphere that this game offers." Amazing gameplay will be accompanied by one of the most striking miniatures and art. The experienced team put their entire artistic skill and hearts into this project, making sure the designs are extremely unique and successfully evoke the fleeting dream world.
Etherfields will be packed with fresh and unique art. Here, Your every skill, action, and even the smallest event will be illustrated with outstanding craftsmanship. Your body has been taken. That's the only thing you are sure of. Your memory has faded away, as you drifted to this strange world of dark dreams. You are an empty vessel now. Looking around, you find masks lying around. Which one will you choose? What story will you follow? Something is coming, and you can feel it – one dream, consuming all others, leaving a faint smell of poppy seeds. What does the Funeral Witch want you to do?
Your Heroes will be defined by their memory chests. These skills have some of the most surprising rules you ever witnessed in a Board Game – from literally escaping current reality to your "dream room" for a few turns, up to time modifying time or rewriting the reality. In dreams, no rules are unbreakable! Throughout the game, you will very often modify your chest with amazing new cards, but also with curses or filters. Every interaction you will have in this strange world leaves a mark – and may lead to surprising results, as normal rules do not apply in Etherfields. You've managed to finally extinguish the ever-burning Lighthouse in Tideless Port? This may help you find that key you have been looking for, but now Umbrageous will hunt you down through other dreams.
During the game, combat will never be your only option. A lot of times, this can be the worst option, as in dreams everyone you kill may come back, even more angrier and weirder. Instead, all characters may interact on two other levels – through cheating or utilizing their perception. Etherfields will test you in many different ways: secret rules that you can discover or deduce by looking closely on the map; drafting cards based on art or name only; guessing the intentions of entities you meet by considering what they do. Learn More>
