
2023Mike Heiman
From BoardGameGeek
The recent discovery of a substance called “Dust” has proven apocalyptic for the residents of the small mining town called Reckoning. Dust allows warping of time, but also has disastrous side effects. Most of the town has now succumbed to the corruption. Only your small posse is left. You need to score a winning poker hand (to buy a ticket on the Wagon out of town). However, spectral forces, tentacles from the deep, and raging fires are not going to make this task easy. Can you escape Reckoning? This is a solo, thematic hand management and survival game game set in the weird west where you are trying to survive the onslaught of spectral riders, tentacles from the deep, and harsh weather until the wagon arrives to rescue you. Players move through the deck of event cards while trying to get the warehouse and keep it from being overrun. If the warehouse is overrun or you can't put together a set of matching cards, you won't survive.
Learn to play
Welcome to Reckoning has 4 videos from 4 creators: 1 review, 1 how-to-play guide, 1 playthrough and 1 unboxing. They date from May to October 2023.
To learn the rules, start with "Welcome to Reckoning - Solo Playthrough - Tentacles, Riders, & Fires (Oh My!)" by Tabletop For One, which runs 28 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Purple Moose Plays...Welcome to Reckoning - Kickstarter Preview" by Purple Moose Plays. To see it played, watch "PNP of the Week 07 Welcome to Reckoning solo card game" by Out of the Box [Board Games].
If you like it, try Gelatinous Cube Dice, 1972: The Lost Phantom and Space Fleet Commander, also by Mike Heiman, or SpellBook, which shares several of its mechanics.
From BoardGameGeek:
The recent discovery of a substance called “Dust” has proven apocalyptic for the residents of the small mining town called Reckoning. Dust allows warping of time, but also has disastrous side effects. Most of the town has now succumbed to the corruption. Only your small posse is left. You need to score a winning poker hand (to buy a ticket on the Wagon out of town). However, spectral forces, tentacles from the deep, and raging fires are not going to make this task easy. Can you escape Reckoning? This is a solo, thematic hand management and survival game game set in the weird west where you are trying to survive the onslaught of spectral riders, tentacles from the deep, and harsh weather until the wagon arrives to rescue you. Players move through the deck of event cards while trying to get the warehouse and keep it from being overrun. If the warehouse is overrun or you can't put together a set of matching cards, you won't survive.
Designer
Mike Heiman
Artist
Arianne Criseyde
Publisher
Wonderspell
Mechanics