What's included in the box:

• Board

• Rule book

• 3 decks of cards: Merchant upgrades, loot cards, and enemy spawn cards

• Inventory + every weapon and item that it holds

• Player piece (Leon S. Kennedy)

• Player + Enemy health trackers

• Bullet counters

• Dice

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How to setup:
Step 1: Set up the board:

To set up the game the player must open up the board and place their player piece on the start square in the bottom left corner of the board.
 

 

Step 2: Shuffle cards and place into decks:

Next, they must shuffle the 3 decks of cards and place them into 3 piles  next to the board
 

 

Step 3 setup starting inventory:

The starting inventory is as follows:

• Pistol

• 10 pistol bullet counters

• Knife

• Green herb

• Grenade

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How to play:

The player's objective is to move from the starting square to the end square and defeat the final boss (Saddler)

They can move from one square to another if the arrow next to the square allows it and if they are not currently in combat.

The player is expected to fight as many bosses as possible. (as the board has been designed so that certain ones are skippable, but most aren’t)

Combat:

Upon landing on a dedicated enemy square or picking up an enemy spawner card, the player must set the enemy health to the current enemy's health and begin fighting.

The player must throw the dice:

An even number is the player hitting the enemy, they can then choose what weapon they would like to use to do the damage

2 odd number rolls in a row count as the enemy hitting the player. Be warned once they’ve hit the initial 2 odd numbers in a row, any more odd numbers in a row count as a hit. This is where the majority of the players health will go, in these unlucky odd number roll chains.

If the player reaches 0 health they die and the game is over, they must restart.

If the enemy's health reaches 0 the player can continue and pick up the corresponding amount of loot cards according the square they are on.

When fighting multiple enemies in on square, the player must fight them one after another. The player can choose which order they would like the fight the enemies. And in-between defeating enemies they can claim their loot cards. For example, if the player is on a 3 enemy spawn card, 2 loot card square. They could kill 1 claim a loot card, kill another and claim the next card then fight the final enemy.

The amount of dmg or healing a weapon or item can do is all explained in the rule book, provided in the box.

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Just like in RE4 the inventory screen acts as the players pause screen, meaning they can pause current gameplay to look into the inventory, to change weapons, heal, use an item, plan a strategy etc.

Full use of the inventory is allowed while in combat to give the player the chance to use certain weapon and item combos or to plan a strategy.

 

The gameplay revolves around strategy and risk and reward. Due to the design of strong resources being very low in supply, the player will spend most of the game struggling for supplies. This encourages them to take the extra paths to claim more loot, however it could also be their downfall.

 

The player should aim to visit as many merchant squares as they can as these offer a generous upgrade and make the players chances of winning improve.