• Settlers of Catan
• Ticket to Ride
• Arkham Horror: the card game
• Magic the Gathering
• Thanos Rising

You may wonder how in the world all of these games could be similar. Well, leave it to a gaming mom to figure out how to make one game that incorporates elements from all five of these games.

Gather Resources

Just like in Settlers of Catan, gather resources to build homes. You’ll need 10 homes for the 4-player game.

Draw from choices

Just like in Ticket to Ride, choose two cards from either face up or face down. Use your cards to build your homes.

Play Unique Characters

You may choose:

• Jorvar who gets to go first, swaps an event card with someone else, or in the last week chooses one player who doesn’t have to draw an event card.
• Arnor who can use 1 lichen and 1 water in exchange for 1 malachite, and can disregard one cave-in per round.
• Bergmund who can roll a dice and get ice rat, snow fox, lizard, or shkatad, and can draw one additional ice rat.
• Iuun who can clear the face up resources into the discard pile, drawing one from those instead of drawing her two resources. She can also choose to place her cards that are discarded from a calamity either in the discard pile or face down on the draw pile.

Just like in Arkham Horror: the card game you choose which player at the outset of the game, and then role-play or not as you see fit.

Lore Quotes

Just like in Magic the Gathering, each card has a quote from Kristjan’s Rise, the story that connects to the game premise.

Event Cards

Each round, draw event cards that make the game progressively harder like in Thanos Rising. And as the game progresses, you’ll shuffle in even more catastrophe events.

Drawing from elements my family loves to play, I created a game based off the origin story for Kristjan’s Rise. You’re trying to get the scientists through the first month after The Impact. 

Race against the clock, help each other, and have fun.

Kickstarter Details

The game is live on Kickstarter. The funds go to commission the rest of the art needed for the 4 more resource cards, the 6 more character cards, and the rest of the event cards.

Besides the game, you can get the t-shirt, a custom playmat, and a custom snow fox plushie!

But remember, the Kickstarter is only live until February 19, 2026! Unlike the books that’ve been on Kickstarter, this one needs the extra help to get the art. It won’t be available until maybe much later. Can we get it to fund?