Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia

About this board game

Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia is a worker-placement game for 2–6 players, playable in about 60 minutes. Lead a team of dice-based workers and recruit cards as you compete to claim ownership of a world rebuilt after apocalypse.

The city of Euphoria promotes intellectual equality while restricting personal freedom and erasing knowledge of the past. Beyond its walls, Wastelanders preserve memories of the old world, while the underground society of Subterra survives among pipes, gears, tunnels, and hidden passages.

In Euphoria, your dice are your workers. Each die’s number represents its worker’s knowledge—an awareness of the dystopia that can provide bonuses and affect player interaction. However, if the combined knowledge of your available workers becomes too high, one of them may desert you.

You also begin with two elite recruit cards. One has already pledged allegiance, while the other requires persuasion. You can reveal the reticent recruit by reaching certain milestones yourself or by allowing other players to reach them first.

• Generate commodities and collect rare artifacts from the old world.
• Dig tunnels to infiltrate opposing areas and construct markets.
• Strengthen allegiances and fulfill secret agendas.
• Compete for land through area control and changing restrictions.

Markets impose harsh limits on personal freedoms, reshape the game, and open new paths to victory. Artifacts are especially valuable to the dystopian elite, who may exchange tracts of land for matching pairs.

With four distinct societies to influence, every decision asks what you are willing to sacrifice. Released in 2013, Euphoria combines worker management, recruit development, resource generation, and area control in a contest to build a better—or more powerful—dystopia.