Number of Players: 3-4
Playing Time: 120 Minutes
Recommended Ages: 14+

Eager, spacefaring humans discovered an alien planet, only to uncover a terrible danger that lay in wait. An ancient monolith of unknown origin has laid waste to their minds, turning them into frothing, violent lunatics who desire nothing more than to kill for the glory of the bloodthirsty stone. To the enthralled humans, there is no thought worth contemplating that does not lead to wanton carnage.

Among these wretches have arisen shamans, powerful warrior-priests who are each convinced that they and they alone can interpret the will of the Monolith. They and their followers are driven to war against each other, slaughtering their heretical foes and boasting to the stone that they are its champions.

In The Monolith, players take on the role of these shamans, powerful leaders who see themselves as the only true mouthpieces of the holy Monolith. Marshall your forces and crush the apostates beneath your boots!

Each round, players take turns spending hearts to complete actions. These actions allow them to recruit and move warriors, move their shaman and activate any shaman powers, or bid hearts on powerful divination cards

When a player thinks they’ve taken the actions they need for the round, they dump their remaining hearts into the monolith. The sooner they feed their hearts to the monolith, the more actions they will have during combat, but do it too soon, and risk watching the other players change the board state in your absence!

Once all players have put their remaining hearts in the monolith, the monolith is lifted, revealing the combat actions the remaining hearts have been sorted into! Battles are fast and brutal, and only the most clever players will outmaneuver their enemies and boast of their deeds to the sacred stone!