Saltlands

About this board game

Saltlands is a 2016 survival board game for 1–6 players with a 120-minute play time. In a world where the Earth has dried out, survivors struggle across the salt plains left behind by a vanished ocean.

Players begin with a single captain and guide their land sails across the flats. These wheeled sailing vehicles follow the wind: moving upwind lets you criss-cross slowly, while traveling on a broad reach provides the fastest movement. As the game progresses, players can increase their crew, with each crew member representing both an extra life and an additional action every turn.

The goal is to be among the first group to find and reach an exit point. Those who escape survive, while the remaining players are left to the approaching Horde. There are no permanent teams, so every game can shift between cooperation and betrayal as players decide whether to help one another or backstab their rivals.

• Wind-driven movement: Choose your route across the salt flats according to the current wind direction.
• Flexible alliances: Cooperate with other players or turn against them when it benefits your escape.
• Raider control: At the end of each turn, choose which group of raiders moves until all raiders have acted.
• Combat and vehicles: Fight raiders and take their vehicles as an alternative way to travel.

Threats come from more than the harsh landscape. From the west, a storm of raiders approaches: a terrifying Horde riding gas-guzzling machines and searching for its lost God. In Saltlands, every movement, alliance, and confrontation may determine who reaches safety first.