Mythotopia

About this board game

Mythotopia is a medieval fantasy deck-building game for 2–4 players, with an approximate play time of 60 minutes. Customize a personal deck, expand across a board of 40 provinces, and pursue victory through development, military conquest, and changing objectives.

Each player begins with randomly assigned Province cards, five Initial cards, six armies, and two ships. On your turn, perform two actions before refilling your hand to five cards. You can buy or place armies and ships, draft Improvement cards, reserve cards for later, remove cards from your deck, use a card’s special action, or invade a neighboring province.

Invading requires the Province card from which you attack, along with military cards and food, and must be your first action of the turn. This gives opponents an opportunity to strengthen their defenses when they see an attack developing. Roads connect provinces and support card substitution and army movement, while cities expand your reserve and castles improve defense.

• Food supports invading armies.
• Stone builds cities, roads, and castles.
• Gold purchases armies, ships, and Improvements.

Victory comes from controlling provinces and constructing cities, roads, and castles, with additional points awarded by the VP cards. Three fixed VP cards are joined by four randomly selected variable cards, creating goals that may reward sea-area control, successful attacks, construction, or new board elements such as dragons, runestones, and citadels.

As VP cards change from game to game, Mythotopia can favor careful development or aggressive expansion. The game ends when four of the seven displayed VP cards have been emptied, and the player with the most victory points wins.