2021Tom Mattson, Marc Neidlinger
- Videos
- 76
- Creators
- 46
2 - 4 players60 - 90 minHeavy weight

2018Marc Neidlinger
Mainly reviews. Vindication is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 27 reviews, 12 how-to-play guides, 10 recorded sessions, 8 unboxings, and 4 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
Vindication (formerly Epoch: The Awakening) is a highly strategic, fantasy-based tabletop journey for 2-5 players. Play time is 15-30 minutes per player. Thrown overboard for a life of wretchedness, you wash ashore a hostile island ruins - completely alone with nothing except the breath in your lungs and an undaunted spirit. Through your advanced resource management, area control tactics, and freeform action selection, you'll add companions to your party, acquire bizarre relics, attain potent character traits, and defeat a host of unusual monsters in the ultimate goal of mastering heroic attributes - and regaining honor. You may perform 3 actions on each turn in the order you feel is most advantageous that turn: activate a companion, travel to a new location, and interact with a map tile. Many actions require the the use of your influence to gain attributes in a one-of-a-kind heroic attribute alchemy system, which is leveraged to gain the game's most powerful rewards. For example, you can meditate at a spire to gain inspiration. You can train at a fort to gain strength. But then you can combine your inspiration and strength to gain the courage (inspired strength) which allows you to perform a bounty hunt. There are distinctive end-game triggers that can be affected through game play, over 72 unique card abilities that can be merged in unusual ways for potent combinations, and fresh tile placement each game for high replayability.
Vindication has 61 videos from 48 creators: 27 reviews, 12 how-to-play guides, 10 playthroughs, 8 unboxings and 4 other videos. They date from 2017 to September 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "Learn To Play Vindication in 15 Minutes (Enhanced Version)" by Nate Fowler, which runs 15 min. For a quicker teach, "Vindication Board Game Organized With All Expansions" by Rulebook Rundown runs 5 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Vindication Review - with Tom Vasel" by The Dice Tower. 25 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Vindication Ep 1 Setup" by Mystic Eye Games, one of 10 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Unsettled, Vestige, Vindication: Archive of the Ancients and Vindication: Leaders & Alliances, also by Marc Neidlinger.
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2021Tom Mattson, Marc Neidlinger
2 - 4 players60 - 90 minHeavy weight
2026Eric D. Johnson, Marc Neidlinger
1 - 4 players45 - 120 minMedium weight
2023Marc Neidlinger
2 - 5 players45 - 150 minHeavy weight
2019Tom Mattson, Marc Neidlinger
1 - 5 players45 - 150 minHeavy weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Vindication (formerly Epoch: The Awakening) is a highly strategic, fantasy-based tabletop journey for 2-5 players. Play time is 15-30 minutes per player. Thrown overboard for a life of wretchedness, you wash ashore a hostile island ruins - completely alone with nothing except the breath in your lungs and an undaunted spirit. Through your advanced resource management, area control tactics, and freeform action selection, you'll add companions to your party, acquire bizarre relics, attain potent character traits, and defeat a host of unusual monsters in the ultimate goal of mastering heroic attributes - and regaining honor. You may perform 3 actions on each turn in the order you feel is most advantageous that turn: activate a companion, travel to a new location, and interact with a map tile. Many actions require the the use of your influence to gain attributes in a one-of-a-kind heroic attribute alchemy system, which is leveraged to gain the game's most powerful rewards. For example, you can meditate at a spire to gain inspiration. You can train at a fort to gain strength. But then you can combine your inspiration and strength to gain the courage (inspired strength) which allows you to perform a bounty hunt. There are distinctive end-game triggers that can be affected through game play, over 72 unique card abilities that can be merged in unusual ways for potent combinations, and fresh tile placement each game for high replayability.
Designer
Marc Neidlinger
Artists
Brett Carville, Emiliano Cordoba, Bartek Fedyczak, Noemi Konkoly, Phu Thieu
Publisher
Orange Nebula, LLC
Categories
Mechanics