So, you’ve been eaten.

Don’t worry, this is simply an occupational hazard.

In fact, it is fairly common among Deep Space Miners (5th class), and some say that it is almost unavoidable. And, well, it is. Especially since the Crystals that you seek happen to be inside giant space Beasts. To mine them, you need to, well, be eaten.

Should you achieve your objective and mine enough Crystals to meet your quota, it is then cost-effective for the company to activate your jetpack and extricate you from the proverbial belly of the Beast.

In the event that the Bacteria present in the Beast overwhelm you and you are digested, do not despair. Your non-organic parts will certainly be useful in the mining exploits of future Miners. In fact, you may encounter some such pieces of equipment in your expedition, remains of less-than-qualified recruits from past attempts.

Finally, it could transpire that you do not collect the necessary Crystals by the time you reach the end of your adventure, without the Beast having digested you.

In this case, you will then exit the Beast from the other end than the one you entered. Alive… and yet forever changed. In this case we will have to evaluate your performance against that of the Beast’s efforts to consume you.

In So, You’ve Been Eaten. the Miner and the Beast will face off against one another.

The Miner earns points by collecting Crystals and the Beast earns points by developing Immune Responses and by its Bacteria attacking the Miner.

The game ends in a win for the Miner if they collect all 8 different Crystals, and the Beast wins by digesting the Miner after four Bacteria of the same type have attacked.

Of course, there’s always the possibility that the Miner will simply pass through the Beast’s system, and then the player with the most points wins!

So, You’ve Been Eaten. can be played as:

A game for 2 players, with a Miner player against a Beast player.

A game for 1 player, with the Miner player against a Hibernating Beast.

A game for 1 player, with the Beast player against a robot Miner.

A game for 0 players, with a Hibernating Beast against a robot Miner.

 

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And if you have not yet decided to back now, here’s why you should:

– Discounted shipping! Post-campaign shipping costs will be higher.

– Guaranteed availability of the Collector edition! Due to its bigger, special box, we will likely not be producing this as easily as the retail edition, and due to its heavier weight, this is not going to be easy to ship when not doing mass KS fulfillment.

– Loyalty discount! Get $1 per previous LudiCreations campaign backed – see below for more details.

– Don’t miss a game full of unconventional asymmetric gameplay by Scott Almes & striking art by Kwanchai Moriya!

Premium Edition – savings

The custom-shaped double-printed acrylic Crystal tokens and the printed wooden Bacteria tokens are going to be available as a $9 add-on, and the Dyspepto-Beastmol mini-expansion will be available as a $5 add-on. By backing the Premium edition, you would get a $4 discount, and also receive the custom-cut Replication token (the “Miner meeple”), which we do not expect to later sell separately.

 

Collector Edition – LudiCreations Loyalty Discount

Backers of the Collector Edition will receive a discount of $1 per previous LudiCreations campaign they have backed in the past, up to a maximum of $5 off. This will be applied in Backerkit and can be used for reducing the cost of shipping and add-ons. For more information, please see the FAQs.

 

Tuckboxes – Sleeves?

Yes, they fit. We tested with premium sleeves.

Remember kids, always use protection!

 

So, You’ve Been Eaten. is an asymmetric game. Players must balance short-term benefit against trying to gain an advantage for the next turns. Many times they will need to simply survive the turn. To win, they need to make clever plays and try to corner their opponent into having to make increasingly difficult choices.

The Miner is playing a dice manipulation & placement game to try to eliminate Bacteria and capture Crystals (and Tools) that are present on a row of cards between them and the Beast player.
The Beast is playing a hand management and drafting game, to try to position their Bacteria to attack the Miner, and acquire Immune Response cards that can make the Miner player’s life difficult.

The 2p game

The Miner begins, and rolls their dice. They then take an action with each one of those dice, removing Stomach cards from the digestive tract between the players, and at the end of their turn, whatever Bacteria is closest to them attacks!

The Beast then strategically refills the tract to cause the Miner the most difficulty, then may develop an Immune Response, refills their hand, and plays a Mutation card against the Miner, trying to match the Bacteria on it with the one that might attack the Miner at the end of their turn!

If the Miner collects 8 Crystals, they win outright. If one of the Beast’s Bacteria tracks reaches the 4th level, the Beast wins immediately. If the deck of Stomach card runs out, points are counted, and whoever player has the most is the winner!

 

The 1p game

So, You’ve Been eaten. can be played as a solo game, either as the Miner (against a Hibernating Beast), or as the Beast (against a Robot Miner).

All actions remain the same. What changes is how their effects are triggered.

 

The 0p game

Nope, 0 players does not mean that the game will set up and play itself. And no, it probably does not count as a play if you decide to not play it. Yes, it does seem to fit the times we are now living in.

However you look at it, having the two AIs play each other is possible, and a conversation starter for the non-board-game-geeks wandering near your shelf.