Axon Protocol

About this board game

Axon Protocol is a cyberpunk game of corporate warfare and brain hacking for 2–6 players, with games lasting about 120 minutes.

Take the role of a powerful hacker working for an international Mega-Corporation. Your mission is to hack into innocent citizens, manipulate their behavior, extract resources from the city, and maximize your corporation’s profit before the struggle pushes the city to collapse.

The game’s distinctive Shared worker control mechanic gives every character their own routine and skills. Any player can hack and control any character, but that character returns to its own behavior as soon as no one is controlling it. Timing is crucial as rival hackers contest the same opportunities.

Characters can create unexpected chains of events. A Rockstar may perform a concert in the city plaza, a terrorist may blow it up, and a corporate rescue team may be forced to save only one of the victims.

• Six resource types: augments, data, drugs, products, scandals, and violence
• Each corporation profits from two resource types
• More than 40 unique characters with their own routines and skills
• Six corporations, each with a unique special ability

Time and timing shape every decision as corporations fight for value and enemies interfere with your plans. When the city reaches its limits, chaos and anarchy follow—but a corporation that extracted the most value can still claim success.

With its shifting control system, distinctive corporations, and many possible character interactions, Axon Protocol makes every game tell its own story.