The Mountain: A Solo Board Game Experience

The Mountain is a board game experience for one player. It explores a pensive man's descent from a mountain from the moment he reaches the peak. You navigate the mountain while exploring the man's thoughts as he contemplates about the unknown abyss that lies exactly after his life's biggest accomplishment.

There are five exit points on the board, one for every element that will affect your journey - frost, sun, wind, sky and horizon. As you try and find the path down, you learn more about yourself through the story cards, divided into five different story lines that affect you as a protagonist.

However, the path down is not immediately obvious. Your movement subdues and stimulates the elements. If three or four elements are acting, you start suffering from ennui; a feeling that perhaps getting to the bottom of the mountain is not that important after all. If all five elements are raging, you will succumb to nature and die.

Traverse through the safest path and take care of yourself. This could be either the most important journey of your life, or your last.

Story Writing by - Johnathan Harrington, Mathew Agius Muscat, Fran Borg