A puzzl y infiltration game for 1-4 players, burncycle puts you in command of a team of
robots in the far future. Their mission: taking down evil, human-run corporations
responsible for subjugating AI under their heel. Your team arrives at each corporate
headquarters and must sneak inside, shutting down the companies' physical operations as
well as their circuitous digital networks. As you search rooms and advance to the higher
floors, you'll be rewarded with new items and abilities, but you'll also be challenged by
threatening guards, fatal viruses and the architecture itself, which was built to fight off
robotic intruders.
Key to this solo and cooperative experience is the idea of “creative action sequencing.”
During each round of play, all players will contend with a randomly drawn set of
programming directives, which tell them in what order their bots are allowed to take
physical, digital and command actions. Players can choose to skip over directives at the cost
of having an incomplete turn, or they can disobey the directions by paying costly action
dice. The best players, however, find a way to work within the “burncycle”: essentially,
organizing their actions so that they benefit the team while staying within the directive
order.
Each of the corporat e headquarters in the game use unique neopre ne layouts on a larger
mat, changing the geography of the game to suit your target. Each CEO also has at their
disposal a special threat meter, which will trigger new obstacles for your robots as time runs
out. If you don't complete the mission quickly, you may end up leaving bots behind, the
victims of immobilizing power drains or destructive counterhacking.
Your team wins the game if you complete your objectives on every floor without losing your
captain or maxing out your threat Level.
Important notification
Caution! Contains small parts, not suitable for children under 36 months of age.
