Creature Caravan

About this board game

Creature Caravan is a 2024 board game for 1–4 players, with a play time of about 90 minutes. Players guide a caravan across the land of Arzium, helping wandering creatures reach the safety of Eastrey while an ember zombie threat spreads from the volcanic south.

Each player builds a card tableau of creatures, with all 134 cards featuring a unique illustration and combination of actions and abilities. On their turns, players simultaneously place dice on actions shown on their cards, move their caravan across the map, and play new creature cards.

The journey leads through deserts, plains, mountains, and red canyons. Along the way, players compete to trade goods and rare coins in a shared market, search mysterious white towers, and fight ember zombies: charcoal-bodied creatures that serve as walking hives for evil fire fairies.

• Build a tableau from uniquely illustrated creature cards.
• Use dice to activate actions and abilities.
• Travel across a dangerous map toward Eastrey.
• Trade goods and rare coins in a shared market.
• Search white towers and fight ember zombies.

Simultaneous gameplay lets everyone take part without increasing the game’s length as the group grows. The race ends when one player reaches Eastrey, but reaching the city is not the only measure of success: the player with the most points wins.

With its journey across a richly varied landscape, distinctive creature cards, and combination of tableau building, dice placement, exploration, trading, and combat, Creature Caravan offers a shared adventure for one to four players. The separately sold Wanderers expansion, included in the Deluxe Edition, increases the player count to six.