Cave Evil

Cave Evil is a wild elimination game for 2-4 players ages 14 and up. Each player is an ancient undead necromancer vying to harness the power of the Pit, the source of the Infinite Shadow. Only a necromancer will succeed. All others will be annihilated. Necromancers start the game in lairs near the Pit. Using metals, gore, and darkflame, they summon their minions. With the help of these minions, they dig tunnels to locate other creatures, resources, and valuable items to gain control of the Pit or other summoning portals.

Each necromancer can obtain creatures to swell their ranks. This is done in three different ways: by bribing and hiring denizens of the dark, building creatures with gore resources and corpses, or summoning demonic monstrosities from other realms.

Cave Evil is played in a number of rounds called cycles. During each cycle each player will take a turn. During a turn, a player draws a card from one of the conjuration decks. This card can be an object, a spell, a resource, a creature, or an event. With this forbidden knowledge or newly acquired wealth, the player can summon creatures, create items or spells, and then control each squad (consisting of summoned minions and their weapons), thus commanding them to dig or fight. After completing the entire cycle, the Blood Eye advances in the awakening track and another cycle begins.

To win a match, only one player will succeed and gain the power of the Pit. It is necessary to eliminate enemy necromancers in combat or by invading their lairs and destroying their Underworld Crystals, detaching their soul from this realm and ending their unlife forever.

But there is an even greater darkness that can befall players if they fail to prove their worth to the Emperor of Eternal Evil in this epic battle. As players summon creatures, the Pit absorbs darkness and calamity descends on the realm. An Eternal Evil WILL AWAKEN...whether players are prepared or not. Can a necromancer's legion be strong or wise enough to SURVIVE this final test and win the game?

MAIN FEATURES

Cave Evil is a very peculiar game. Since the launch of its first edition in 2011, only a total of 3,000 copies have been manufactured worldwide. This has made it a collector's item that is currently selling for over $300. What is really interesting, however, are its characteristics:

-It is a game that breathes theme everywhere
-Despite being all illustrated in black, white and gray palette, the visual result once displayed is really attractive.
-No 2 illustrations are the same in the entire game: even on the room and corridor tiles, there are differences. Of course, their more than have unique illustrations.
-Despite having a high component of chaos and chance, tactical execution with your squads is essential to win.
-5 endings available: The Eternal Evil will awaken, but players don't know what it will be until the blood gem makes a full turn on the track. Players will then know what they're up against and have up to another full lap to claim victory. Eternal Evil can manifest in the form of:

    Pit of Infinite Shadows: The player who manages to jump into the Pit first will be the winner once the Pit awakens.
    The Dark Whore: A formidable foe that will teleport to the side of the player with the fewest kill points each cycle, forcing the necromancer to fight her to life or death.
    The Old Black Goat: An enemy that instantly kills all squads he touches. It will move around the map randomly until a player manages to kill it or is the last to survive its carnage
    The Idol of Death: will allow players to make a sacrifice with death points to fire a massive beam that will annihilate anything it touches. In the end, in any case, it will have to be destroyed, which is not easy at all.
    The Emperor of Eternal Evil: Evil personified. He will chase the player with the fewest kill points, guided by the hand of the player with the most kill points at the time (each cycle can vary who controls the Emperor). In the end, the last survivor will have to defeat him in combat.


-5 necromancers with unique one-time abilities
-Wandering monsters that will appear on the map
-An agile, fast and exciting combat system
-Over 250 cards with unique creatures, items, spells and events. Squad combinations are endless!
-Different combinations of initial deployment; the game supports custom settings. We want to create a random scenario generation section.

Components

•     24 squad control cards
•     24 squad markers
•     5 Eternal Evil markers
•     5 guardian tokens
•     80 excavation tiles
•     4 lairs
•     30 wandering monster tokens
•     36 Rock markers
•     8 turn duration markers
•     228 resource tokens (felmetal, gore, darkflame)
•     70 bribe cards
•     70 construct cards
•     70 summon cards
•     70 abyss cards
•     42 dig cards
•     5 necromancer cards
•     5 evil awakening cards
•     4 starting necromonk cards
•     5 guard cards
•     1 starting player token
•     2 iron gate markers
•     2 bright eye/flag markers
•     2 12-sided dice
•     2 4-sided dice
•     1 blood eye gem
•     1 map (board mounted)
•     35 plastic holders
•     4 reference cards
•     4 kill point cards
•     1 manual

Exclusive to the Spanish edition

•     4 soul stone gems
•     7 cards to create your own creatures
•     13 component organization and support cards
•     84 status markers
•     board mounted
•     tarot cards instead of die-cut paper
•     extended regulation