Etherfields is a narrative, cooperative game for 1 - 4 (5 with the 5th player expansion). A series of unique Dreams await to be discovered through tense exploration and tactical encounters.
Learn about the Dreamers, their forgotten past, and their desperate mission. Uncover the surreal, sprawling dreamscapes. Just don't be surprised when---just like dreams often do---they become a little disturbing... Prepare to be challenged by escape-room like riddles. Spot a clue in the image. See a hidden link between several pieces of information. Use your instinct as much as your logic.
In the beginning, you'll explore the Dreamworld, trying to find out what this is all about and who you are – and you are there for a specific reason, but, at first, you can't remember too much. You'll have to restore your memories from scattered pieces.
The rules are pretty straightforward at the beginning, but they will grow more and more complex during the campaign. New rules open new possibilities and, sometimes, may turn everything upside down.
Deckbuilding in Etherfields applies to almost every deck in the game, not only the players' ones. If you want to know more, enter the Dreamworld. It may be dark here and there, but it certainly isn't gray. Then, look around and ask yourself: what if we all live in a vast, shared dream?
Sundrop Bundle Includes:
Core Game (Sundrop)
Etherfields: Stretch Goals – Harpy & She-Wolf Campaigns (Sundrop)
Sphinx campaign (Sundrop)
Funeral Witch Campaign (Sundrop)
5th Player Expansion (Sundrop)
Creatures of Etherfields (Sundrop)
Improved Rulebook and Optimal Game Supplements
Etherfields: Stretch Goals – Harpy & She-Wolf Campaigns (Sundrop)
The Harpy Campaign adds 30+ hours of game play and exploration and the Harpy miniature.
Sphinx campaign (Sundrop)
The Sphinx is one of the oldest cults and a symbol of wisdom and mystery. Since ancient times, this magnificent creature was a guardian of secret knowledge. In this campaign you will be on a quest to discover a deeply hidden mystery that will bring a revolution to the world ruled under the Sphinx entity... What will it be...? What answers will you need to find...?
In this campaign, gameplay will be an endless maze that players will need to go through. From a components standpoint, you will have labyrinth tiles that you will be able to connect to one another in many different ways to try to pass through. However, if you end up at a dead end, you will need to go back to the start and try again.
Secret knowledge will be very handy here as these tiles will have a lot of hidden mechanics of which you will have no knowledge at the start of the campaign. Only after unlocking some of the Sphinx mysteries, will you see a path in a place you previously thought was a dead end.
Funeral Witch Campaign (Sundrop)
Funeral Witch is a very mysterious and dark figure, representing, among other things, sadness, pain and regret after a loss. She can be moody, chaotic, temperamental but still seeks solace - at each encounter her behaviour changes completely from the previous one. Will we discover the key to these changes? If so, will it be easier for us to prepare for the next encounter with her?
Fluctuation, but also cyclicality is the rhythm in which this campaign will be played. Will we drown in the depths of black sorrow, or will we find a ray of light that will lead us to a mysterious goal?
In this story we will be accompanied by drabness, darkness and ruins.
Gameplay
In this campaign, one of the main attractions, distinguishing it from the others, is a special additional 48-page Book of Scripts. Normally, in Etherfields, all adventures, scripts, conversations, scenes, etc. are placed directly on cards and tiles, and the amount of text is heavily balanced by graphics. Here, much more is pure text, and it is mainly used to conduct very extensive dialogues with the characters of this campaign.
Featured dream locations
We will climb the stairs and ride up in the old elevator to the highest floors of a crumbling, half-broken, block of flats.
We will come across a strange cemetery, located on the roof of a building.
We will visit the Museum of Death and the Great Cathedral.
We will struggle with the snow void.
And we will take part in a game of hide and seek.
5th Player Expansion (Sundrop)
This expansion allows you to add a 5th player.
This is not only a 5th player expansion, but also an additional character to choose from for any other player count game. We called this character archetype Reaper.
This archetype will be based on wounds that this character has taken - the more, the better combos she will be able to execute. There will be multiple ways of using this to your advantage - either by full-on risky play or perhaps more focused on balance and getting a good healing deck build. The Reaper will provide quite interesting mechanics for the whole team!
Creatures of Etherfields (Sundrop)
