Boardgames

Hunted: Kobayashi Tower

Use every card wisely, balance running, fighting, and hiding, and survive a dice-driven rescue mission in Kobayashi Tower.

25
minutes

1 - 2
player(s)

Medium

Hunted: Kobayashi Tower board game cover

About this board game

Hunted: Kobayashi Tower is a fast-paced game for 1–2 players that plays in around 25 minutes, putting you inside a skyscraper seized by terrorists.

It is Sharon’s birthday, and you arrive at her workplace with roses and the expensive chocolate she loves. Instead of a hoped-for turning point in your marriage, you find the building under terrorist control. Sharon has been taken hostage, while you have managed to elude the attackers and remain somewhere inside.

Your objective is clear but dangerous: work through Kobayashi Tower, take out the terrorists, rescue your wife, and escape alive. At the same time, the terrorists are hunting you, creating constant pressure as you decide when to move, confront danger, or stay out of sight.

  • Multi-use cards: Every card can force a difficult choice between discarding it or activating it.
  • Dice-driven action: Dice rolling resolves events and combat.
  • Tense resource decisions: Balance running, fighting, and hiding as you advance through the building.

The game’s quick pace comes from its continual demands for careful judgment. A card that could help with one situation may need to be sacrificed for another, while dice determine the outcome of critical events and battles.

Designed as part of the Hunted series, Hunted: Kobayashi Tower focuses on a compact, high-pressure rescue story. Every decision brings you closer to Sharon—or leaves you more exposed to the terrorists searching the tower.