Life In Reterra

Before long, the world as we know it is an overgrown memory, and although the world has changed, we have changed with it, using everything we can find to build a new way of living.

Life in Reterra is a (re)building game, and it is up to each player to build their own community. To set it up, choose one of three ready-made themed building sets, or put together your own. Each set consists of five building cards with matching building tiles for each card.

Each player starts with one square land tile in play. Each land tile is divided into a 2×2 grid with one of five types of terrain in each grid space; a space may also contain a gear icon or one of four types of relic. Players also have three land tiles in hand, and five land tiles are displayed face up.

On a turn, choose a land tile from your hand or from the display, then add it to your community, which can be at most four tiles on each side. When the tile has a gear, you can either place an inhabitant from the reserve on that gear or place a building tile in your community… but every part of the building must be supported by a gear, and all those gears must be on the same type of terrain.

Once you have a building in play, you gain the power of its building card and can use it once in each of your subsequent rounds. You might place relic tokens for extra points, place additional inhabitants, discard an opponent’s relics, or score for building large areas of one terrain or for having more of a building than anyone else.

When everyone has sixteen tiles in their community, players score points for what they have built, earning points for terrain blocks of at least seven spaces, surrounded energy sources (which are a special type of tile), inhabitants, relics and buildings.