The isle of Atlantis, your home, is sinking. Will you be able to save your people in time?
Atlantis Rising is a co-operative worker
placement game in which you must work together with up to five other
players to deploy citizens across your homeland, gathering resources in
order to build a cosmic gate that can save your people. Workers placed
close to the shoreline are more rewarding, but are more likely to be
flooded and the actions lost.
Every turn, each player draws a misfortune card that will flood
certain locations along the ever-shrinking Atlantis shoreline, or may
otherwise work to undermine your efforts to save your people. So you
must race to gather the necessary resources to build and power the gate,
before the island disappears beneath the waves forever.
This edition contains all new art and graphic design, created to
bring even more attention to the thematic setting of the game. The
Athenians Attack phase has been replaced with the Wrath of the Gods
phase, requiring more strategic planning and adding to the sense of
urgency. Now, instead of placing workers in an Atlantean Navy, players
must cooperatively decide to flood a set number of tiles at the end of
each round. To further aid them in their task, Councilor player powers
have been expanded and made more impactful, and the knowledge deck has
similarly been revised and expanded. The variable gate components, once
built, no longer offer one-time bonuses, but create new worker placement
spots where players can send Atlantean workers to unleash actions to
help save their island.
