Earthborne Rangers

Earthborne Rangers is a customisable, cooperative card game set in the wilderness of the far future. You take on the role of a Ranger, a protector of the mountain valley you call home: a vast wilderness transformed by monumental feats of science and technology that were devised to save the Earth from destruction long ago. The story of Earthborne Rangers is presented as a branching narrative campaign made up of a main story and a large number of side stories. In it, you can choose to follow the critical path or to set out on your own to discover the valley’s many engaging characters, mysterious ruins and creatures, both familiar and strange.

You start by building a deck that reflects your Ranger’s interests, personal history and personality. As you explore the open world and your story takes shape, you expand your deck with improved gear, refined skills and memories from your journey.

Each game session represents one day in the valley, and you start at the same location on the map where you rested the night before. Your goal is either to complete one of your available missions or to explore the open world. The session ends when you are either forced to rest (due to fatigue or injury) or you choose to rest for the night.

An individual game session is played in rounds, and these rounds consist of turns. On your turn you perform one action: either you play a card from your hand, or you choose an action from a card on the table. Each action lets you interact thematically and narratively with the world, and every time you perform an action, the world comes to life around you. Predators stalk their prey, rain pours down from the sky, rocks tumble down the mountain and block your path, and much more.