Stress Botics: Odyssey

About this expansion

Stress Botics: Odyssey is a heavy eurogame expansion for 1–4 players, with games lasting around 150 minutes. It maintains the basic rules and rhythm of the base game while enhancing five major areas of play.

The alternate main-room board provides a detailed view of the area where Alpha Bot currently is. Positioning becomes crucial as players fight Cylindroids and defend Alpha Bot, whose failure to reach the surface makes deliveries to ships much more complex.

• Cylindroid Elites: Eliminating an entire wave of enemies brings forth a powerful nemesis with its own AI and complex behavior.
• Alpha Bot control: Beta Bots can enter Alpha Bot and influence its AI, changing direction, crushing enemies, avoiding obstacles, repairing shields, collecting resources, or equipping objects.
• Unpredictable damage: If Alpha Bot is damaged while controlled, its temperamental AI may trigger aggressive behaviors, including returning to an explored main room or attacking nearby robots.
• Solo mode: Delta Bot accompanies a solo player, with an additional board supporting maintenance management. Too much stress causes the companion to explode.
• Additional content: New items, boxed items, and modular boards add more options and detail to the game’s mechanics.

Boxed items can be dynamically equipped from the main room for more immediate use, adding improvisation to combat and the strategies that shape each game. Modular boards also provide unique characteristics for each player count.

With its expanded room positioning, enemy behavior, interactive Alpha Bot systems, and dedicated solo challenge, Stress Botics: Odyssey deepens the original experience while preserving its established flow.