Endless Winter: Paleoamericans

About this board game

Endless Winter: Paleoamericans is a 2022 euro-style board game for 1–4 players, with games lasting about 120 minutes.

Set in North America around 10,000 BCE, the game follows tribes across several generations. Players guide their people from nomadic hunter-gatherers toward prosperous tribal societies by migrating, settling new lands, establishing cultural traditions, hunting Paleolithic megafauna, and building everlasting megalithic structures.

At the heart of Endless Winter is an innovative combination of worker placement and deck building. Each round, players send tribe members to different action spaces, then pay for those actions by playing cards and spending resources. Tribe cards provide additional labor, while Culture cards offer a variety of unique effects.

Cards can also be saved for the end-of-round Eclipse phase. Players reveal their saved cards simultaneously to determine the new player order and trigger bonus actions, creating another important use for each card.

• Multi-use cards: Play cards for actions or save them for the Eclipse phase.
• Area influence: Compete to shape the development of new lands.
• Tile placement: Expand settlements and arrange the game’s developing landscape.
• Set collection: Gather combinations that support your tribe’s progress.

These interwoven systems offer many viable paths to victory while keeping the game focused across four brisk rounds. After the final round, scores are tallied, and the tribe with the most points wins.