Shadows of Brimstone: City of the Ancients

About this board game

Shadows of Brimstone: City of the Ancients is a fast-paced, fully cooperative dungeon-crawl board game for 1–4 players, with a play time of 120 minutes. Set in the Old West, it combines tactical gameplay, plenty of dice, and unspeakable horror.

Players create heroes based on classic Western archetypes such as the Law Man, Gunslinger, or Saloon Girl. Together, they form an adventuring posse and descend into dark mines overrun by ancient demons and foul creatures from another world.

A robust, card-driven exploration system makes every adventure different. As the heroes explore, they discover new enemies, collect loot, overcome dangers, and may even find portals leading to other worlds.

• Fully cooperative dungeon-crawl gameplay
• Tactical combat with lots of dice
• Card-driven exploration with changing encounters
• Campaign progression through gear, artifacts, experience, and upgrades

Between adventures, the heroes can visit local frontier towns to spend their hard-earned loot and develop their characters. Experience allows each hero to level up through an expansive, class-specific upgrade tree of skills and abilities, helping players shape their characters around their preferred play style.

In City of the Ancients, portals lead to the Plains of Targa, where an ancient frozen city stands without its living inhabitants. Mechanical keepers still wander through the city and perform their duties—until the heroes arrive.

Shadows of Brimstone: City of the Ancients can also be used together with Shadows of Brimstone: Swamps of Death to raise the maximum player count to 6.