Endless Winter: Paleoamericans

Categories: Adventure, Prehistoric, Territory Building

Mechanics: Area Majority/Influence, End Game Bonuses, Hand Management, Income, Modular Board, Multi-Use Cards, Set Collection, Solo/Solitaire Game, Tech Trees/Tech Tracks, Turn Order: Auction, Variable Player Powers, Variable Set-up, Worker Placement

Players: 1–4

Ages: 12+

Playtime: 60–120 Min

Endless Winter: Paleoamericans is set in North America around 10,000 BCE, where players lead the development of their tribes over several generations, transforming them from nomadic hunter-gatherers into prosperous tribal societies. Throughout the game, tribes will migrate and settle new lands, establish cultural traditions, hunt paleolithic megafauna, and construct enduring megalithic structures.

This euro-style game innovatively combines worker placement and deck building. Each round, players send their tribe members to various action spaces, paying for these actions by playing cards and spending resources. Tribe cards provide additional labor, while Culture cards offer a variety of unique effects. Alternatively, cards can be held back for the end-of-round Eclipse phase, where they are simultaneously revealed to determine the new player order and activate bonus actions.

Endless Winter features a unique blend of interwoven systems and mechanics, including multi-use cards, area influence, tile placement, and set collection. With numerous viable paths to victory, players must strategically manage their resources and actions. After four brisk rounds, scores are tallied, and the tribe with the most points emerges victorious!