Aeon's End: Legacy

To set up the game, each player selects a hero, names them, and begins with 10 health. A market is established with nine different types of cards available for purchase, including gem cards (used as currency), relic cards (providing helpful abilities), and spell cards (dealing damage). The Nemesis board is placed, along with its unique deck of cards, which includes minions and power cards. A turn order deck is also prepared, containing cards for each player and two Nemesis cards. The game features a legacy element, meaning new cards and rules are introduced as players progress through chapters, revealed only when instructed by 'STOP' cards.

The primary objective of Aeon's End: Legacy is for all players to cooperatively defeat a powerful Nemesis by reducing its health to zero. Simultaneously, players must protect Gravehold, their city, which has its own health tracker. If Gravehold's health drops to zero, all players lose the game. Players also lose if all heroes are exhausted, though exhausted heroes remain in the game, causing Gravehold to take damage instead of them.

A turn order deck dictates whose turn it is. When a player's card is drawn, they can cast spells from their prepped breaches, focus breaches (paying to open them for spells), and buy new cards from the market using gem cards. After their actions, players arrange their discard pile and draw five new cards. When a Nemesis card is drawn, any persistent effects from minions on the board are activated, followed by drawing and resolving a Nemesis attack card. If an assist card is drawn, players resolve its beneficial effect.

Scoring in Aeon's End: Legacy is entirely cooperative. There is no individual scoring; the team either collectively wins or loses. Success is achieved by defeating the Nemesis, while failure occurs if Gravehold's health is depleted or all heroes are exhausted. The campaign progresses through chapters, with outcomes influencing future games, such as character evolution and new card unlocks.

A game of Aeon's End: Legacy concludes in one of two ways: either the players win by reducing the Nemesis's health to zero, or they lose if Gravehold's health is reduced to zero, or if all players are exhausted. If players lose a chapter, they can replay it once. If they lose a second time, they proceed to the next chapter with consequences from their defeat. The campaign consists of eight chapters, with the overall narrative unfolding as players progress.