✦ Midgardr is a medieval board game blending strategy and storytelling, where every choice shapes your fate.
It's a solo, turn-based city builder and card game where you play on a game board as a medieval administrator...
But maybe you're not just that. And maybe the board isn't all it seems ✦
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Play cards
and
manage resources
to build your settlement and keep your people happy and thriving.
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Face moral choices and unpredictable events
that threaten peace.
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Choose your political allies
(
Curtes
) carefully and
encounter mysterious figures
offering
quests
that shape your destiny through
branching paths
and difficult decisions.
But there's more beneath the surface: as you play, you'll begin to uncover a mysterious meta-story hidden behind it all...
If you're just a Duke in a board game, who's moving the pieces on the board?
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Buildings and Resources
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Gather
wood
,
stone
, and
coins
to expand your village. Collect
food
to feed your villagers and keep them happy.
Manage your resources wisely: build
Residential Structures
– like houses and manors – to grow your population;
Productive Buildings
– like farms, markets, mines, lumberjacks – to collect resources;
Military Structures
– like towers and fortresses to defend.
Every urban choice has lasting consequences… and your people are watching. Will they remember you as a generous ruler, or a power-hungry tyrant?
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Curtes and Politics
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The
Curtes
is the heart of your domain: your government.
It’s your task to
assign the right characters to each role
within the
Curtes
.
Each character brings his own
trait and effect
: use their powers wisely to serve your strategy and try to build a politically aligned faction with similar traits to unlock powerful bonuses.
Don’t underestimate fate: some may fall ill, or even lose their minds… shattering your careful plans in an instant.
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Event cards
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Your village will face
strange and sudden events
. A miraculous harvest: gift from the heavens or ancient curse? Knights in the woods: refugees or revenants? A strange egg: good omen or the spark of calamity?
Each event demands a decision
, but
you won’t know the outcome until you choose
. What seems like a blessing may hide a curse, and what feels like a threat might bring unexpected fortune. The consequences will affect your resources and may even change the state of your village. You cannot escape fate, but you can choose how to face it.
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Quests and Encounters
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Throughout your reign,
six mysterious figures
will cross your path. Some will ask for favors, others will plant seeds of doubt, a few may try to guide… or manipulate you. It’s up to you to decide whom to trust and whom to reject. But every choice comes at a cost.
This is the main storyline of the game, told through a series of letters.
Your replies shape your path and determine your destiny, leading you toward one of several possible endings
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The meta-story behind it all
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Play through the demo to its very end to catch a glimpse of something the game hasn't revealed yet: a hint of another time, another place, and the sense that not everything ends when the story does. Midgardr isn't only a board game — it's a threshold between two worlds, waiting to be crossed.
Play the demo now and find out!
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