Vindication® Board Game

Vindication® Board Game

Manage resources, control areas, and create exciting combos in an ever explorable modern euro experience.

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2-5 players

PLAYERS

Competitive

PLAY STYLE

20-30 min / player

PLAY TIME

3.09 / 5

BGG WEIGHT

A Past, pleading to be rewritten

You are wretched…but this is not the end of your story.

Thrown overboard for a life of cruelty and corruption, you wash ashore a hostile island ruins — completely alone with nothing except the breath in your lungs and an undaunted spirit.

Through advanced resource management, area control tactics, and freeform action selection, you’ll add companions to your party, acquire bizarre relics, attain potent character traits, and defeat a host of unusual monsters in the goal of mastering heroic attributes — and ultimately regaining your lost honor.

“Oh my goodness this is an amazing game. Top 5 of the year for sure. It scales well, it plays fairly quickly… Every time I sit down to play this I get this joyful feeling and this excitement…and I have played it A LOT. Highly, HIGHLY recommend it.”

tom vasel, the dice tower

evertyhing you need lies within

A Unique Core Mechanism

On the path to renewal the most important provisions come from within—the resources you're managing are the attributes of self. Grow your inspiration, strength, and knowledge. Then, merge those into the heroic attributes of courage, vision, and wisdom, leveraging what you’ve learned as search for your future amongst the ruins of the past. Inspired by the intuitive and familiar alchemy of the color wheel, Vindication's attribute system makes resource management flow in a complex but very approachable way.

unlock your true potential

Leverage your influence to assert your will

Continuing the theme of resources that flow between states, your influence will carry into many places and take on various forms as you unlock your potential, leverage your heroic attributes, empower your magical relics, control map regions, activate your companions, and increase your conviction.

unlimited replayability

A new world emerges with every play

As players explore the island, map tiles are drawn randomly from a bag and placed onto the main board, creating a fresh layout every time. Modular and flexible, the game system is designed to allow you to swap map regions in and out of the bag depending on how you like to play. The game and its various expansions offer a vast array of these thick, black-core region tiles, each offering a different action, meaning the actions available each game is entirely customizable.

variable end-game triggers

Game-end conditions change before and during each game

The road to restored honor is never quite what you expect it to be, and, accordingly, in Vindication the conditions that trigger the end-game are variable and in flux. Each play starts with several end game triggers revealed and more accumulate over time, avoiding games that drag on, and meaning min-maxers will have to max and min in an evolving game space that can never be truly solved.

“Vindication has me thinking about it even when I'm not playing it—just reading through cards and considering what I'll try next time. There's just so much to explore with this game. It's fantastic!”

david waybright, man vs meeple

THE GAME YOU DESERVE

Embrace Component Euphoria

Gorgeous metal coins and tokens

Neoprene Mat Upgrade Available

Custom Component Gametrayz™

Die-Cut, linen, black-core cards

The world is yours

A truly modular system

The base game of Vindication features loads of optional content that can be swapped in and out to customize your experience. Regions (and the actions they grant), whole card types, additional rare resources, and much more are there from the very start. And if you find that customization to your taste, a whole line of additional modular context drastically expands your options.

expansion

Chronicles

Add story, narrative, global events, and legendary powers to your game experience!

expansion

Leaders & Alliances

Manage rapport with the guild leaders for all-new powers, or delve into solo mode!

module

Villages & Hamlets

Maximize your map regions, perform attribute checks, and discover magical acorns!

Big Box

Archive of the Ancients

Includes the base game and all expansions, modules, and upgrades (except the neoprene mat)!

module

World Box: Odyssey

Includes a neoprene mat, a dual-layered odyssey module, a pack of cards with pet spirits, and more!

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The ultimate archive of a storied franchise

Consistently growing and selling out since 2017, Vindication® has expanded into a colossal modern euro experience that is a gaming collection unto itself. To celebrate the legacy of this title, the Archive of the Ancients edition collects all content released from 2017 through mid 2023 and serves as a forever storage solution not only for existing content, but with space enough to accomodate all the content yet to come.

The fully loaded Archive of the Ancients edition of Vindication® is available now in the Orange Nebula shop.