Fail Bots

A board game where you are trying to protect all other players and die first. Keep everyone else alive while you sacrifice yourself for the greater good! For two to three players.

Game Play Instructions:

All players roll a D6 to determine who starts first. Play Clockwise from the highest roll and if tied, re-roll. Each player starts with 3 play cards and 5 health tokens. Tokens are displayed upright on heads. Heads means you have health, flip the tokens to tails whenever you receive damage. Whenever the damage you receive is a decimal, round down. Anytime you die you lose a token, remaining tokens are flipped back to heads. Players can have no more than 3 cards in their hand.

Player's turn: First discard a card and pick up cards until your hand is full, then play a card from your hand if you wish. Your opponents may then play an action card. Then roll a D6 and move your player idol the number shown. If you land on an instance (Exclamation Point ❣), take an instance card and follow the instructions. If you land on a bolt (⚡) you take 1 damage, flip 1 health token to tails. If you land on a super bolt (Black ⚡) take 2 damage, flip 2 tokens to tails. When all your tokens are on tails you have died, remove one token and flip the rest back to heads. If your damage exceeds your health, remaining damage has no effect. If either card pile ends, shuffle the discard pile. First player to lose all tokens wins. If players reach the end of the path on the board, they start back at the beginning with double damage for the remainder of the game.

Notes: Made for the Weekly Game Jam #130. I joined last minute, so only spent 4 hours on this and it's definitely a prototype. I'd like to do more play testing locally when I have more time and improve the graphics later. This theme for this game was too fun to pass up. (Theme: 'Dying is Awarded'