Metrorunner

About this board game

Metrorunner is a competitive worker-movement and resource-collection game for 1–5 players, with a play time of 90 minutes. Set in the high-tech neon dystopia of Mirror City, it challenges runners to compete for resources, complete contracts, and build influence while secretly stealing data for their home district.

Players circle the city on the Metro line, planning their routes to seize opportunities and avoid being cut off by rival runners. Each journey is part of a wider struggle for reputation and power, as you take on tricky jobs for ruthless mega-corporations and corrupt factions. Earn credits, grow your influence, and spend your rewards wisely as you work to establish yourself in the underworld.

A standout feature is the game’s tile-puzzle mini-game. Use your skills and upgrades to hack network nodes, then manipulate the circuitry of a central tile grid. By changing the pathways in this evolving puzzle, you attempt to breach corporate firewalls and secure valuable data.

• Worker movement: Plot your path around Mirror City using the Metro line.
• Resource collection: Compete for resources and gather the means to pursue your plans.
• Contracts and influence: Complete corporate jobs while building reputation and notoriety.
• Tile-based hacking: Alter circuit pathways to penetrate network defenses.

Along the way, you can hijack black market technology, use upgrades, and exploit openings before another runner gets there first. Metrorunner combines route planning, resource management, competition, and a changing puzzle into a race for recognition in Mirror City’s power struggle.

Will your careful moves and hacking skills win the respect of the underworld, or will you fade into obscurity?