Hello Everyone,

The last couple of months were very interesting to brainstorm and figure out what kind of game we actually want to make. As you probably know by now, we decided to make Revival of Heartgrove our first board game!

Concept

In Revival of Heartgrove, you play as one of the six anthropomorphic animal clans that survived an apocalypse that wiped humanity. Each animal clan evolved to wield powers of different elements. Even after surviving the apocalypse, these clans have to find a way to cooperate to thrive and bring prosperity to Heartgrove. But the land is poisoned by a mysterious fungus that has effects unknown to most clans. The animals affected by the fungus have an unstoppable urge to spread the fungus and destroy the fragile alliance the clans formed recently.

Gameplay

Revival of Heartgrove is a mix of resource management and social deduction genres. You move around the board, visiting different biomes, and gathering resources needed for constructing buildings and bringing prosperity to Heartgrove. Classic to social deduction genre, while everyone seemingly has the same goal at first, there are corrupted players among you. They try to bring other clans down by using harmful targeted or global events, making sneaky deals with other players, and constructing buildings that spread the spores of the fungus even more. Your goal as a good player is to weed these corrupted clans out while making sure Heartgrove survives.

Is There More?

We have more details on how the gameplay works but as you can imagine, we are actively working on the gameplay so our game changes every few weeks. I am so excited to share more about Revival of Heartgrove with anyone who reads these blogs.

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