HEROES OF GREECE: AT A GLANCE
Mechanics: A mid-to-heavy strategy game for 1–4 players featuring asymmetric hero decks, spatial route planning, hand management, and engine building.
Theme: Set in mythic Greece, players command legendary heroes—navigating three realms from Tarators to the divine heavens, drafting relics, warriors, and equipment, and fighting mythic beasts.
Core Objectives A race to Apotheosis. Fulfill divine quests, acquire Agora upgrades, and build card synergies to ascend to the pantheon before your opponents.
Four Distinct Ways to Play: Heroes of Greece features a fully modular engine designed for maximum replayability across four unique game modes. Whether you are looking for a classic full-table competitive race, a thematic solo mythic campaign, a fast 1v1 duel, or a fully cooperative boss battle against the relentless threat of Hector, a dynamic automa hero racing to claim his own place in the pantheon, the game scales seamlessly to fit your playstyle and group size.
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👤1 - 4 Players
⏱️30 - 120 min
📜 Age:12+
🏛️Mid-Strategy
FOUR DISTINCT GAME MODES
Competitive: (1 - 4 player) - Race to claim a divine place on Olympos against other players and Hector.
Cooperative: Team up against Hector, the Prince of Troy, before he can achieve apotheosis.
Arena: Fast 2-player duel(Included in the free PNP!)
Saga: Unique 1-player variant where the objectives are taken from the pages of your hero's epic mythology.
OVER 250 UNIQUE CARDS
Including Heroes, Equipment, Events, City-States, Olympian gods, Quests, Monsters, and more.
REALMS OF GODS AND MORTALS
Traverse 40 tactical map zones—from the realm of mortals to the depths of the Underworld and the heights of Olympos. Seek sanctuary at divine temples; invoke heavenly blessings, or channel their wrath to cripple your rivals.
FACE MYTHIC BEASTS
Face down legendary monstrosities like the Hydra, the Minotaur, the Cyclops, the Sirens, and more. Combat is where clever hand management, resource allocation, and card synergies determine whether you slay the beast or fail in the attempt.
SECURE YOUR LEGACY THROUGH QUESTS
Every quest is a multi-part puzzle that requires forward planning. Position your hero across map zones, chain movement with strategic action synergies, and execute high-impact combos to fulfill quest conditions and stay one step ahead of your opponents.
THE PRINCE OF TROY
Whether in solo or multiplayer, Hector operates via a 15-card Automa deck—driving a tactical non-player opponent whose relentless actions are as unpredictable as they are formidable.
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Over 250 custom illustrated cards, dual-layered hero boards, dynamic quest markers, and modular game boards. Featuring 8 asymmetric heroes, 30 unique quests, and 16 Seals of Apotheosis for over 3,600 victory condition setups.
Eight asymmetric heroes from Achilles to Theseus provide divergent strategic approaches and play-styles. Each hero has a unique 1-player Saga Mode that lets you experience their legendary mythic journey firsthand.
15 Mythic Monsters: Battle legendary beasts spanning 3 escalating difficulty tiers. Hunt down low-level threats for early glory or assemble your army to slay high-tier mythic horrors for massive favor and game-winning rewards.
The Hector Automa keeps players on their toes with a randomized deck of 15 unique movements and actions. Hector is formidable, whether chasing you relentlessly in Competitive Mode or turning the tables and teaming up against him in Cooperative.
3 Quest tiers: Face evolving challenges across three distinct tiers that guarantee unique approaches to every session. Combine shifting quest combinations with strategic engine-building to claim divine favor before your rivals. Use card effect synergies to capitalize on deck building and other game objectives.
Over 3,500 unique major quest combinations with the Seals of Apotheosis. Randomize among four play styles including economic, combat, tactical, or strategy-focused, or mix-and-match for creative objectives.
RULES & REFERENCE
FAST SETUP - ONLINE WALKTHROUGH
COMPETITIVE MODE QUICK SET-UP
1A) Abtain the "Seals of Apotheosis" tiles (18 total)
1B) Separate the "Hero" and "Legend" Seals. These victory condition Seals determine the length of the game. Place 1 on the Main Board face-up and remove the other from the game.
1C) Shuffle the remaining 16 seals and deal 4 out into the remaining slots at the top of the board (the Seals may be placed in any order or position).
2) Shuffle the Quest cards (30 total) and place the deck on the Main Board on the designated position.
3A) Obtain and shuffle the Monster cards (15 total)
3B) Cut into two roughly equal piles and place one pile each on the top and bottom Monster card positions on the Main Board. Flip the top card of each over. These are the active Monsters on the board. Place red Health tokens on the corresponding health trackers equivalent to the monster's health.
4A) Obtain and shuffle the Agora Market Deck
4B) Deal 5 cards face-up onto the Agora Market slots
5A) To build out your Hero Tableau, start by selecting your Hero. Place the cooresponding Jumbo Card in your play area.
5B) Obtain your starting deck (9 cards). Shuffle and place it face-down next to your Hero's Jumbo Card. This is your starting Library.
5C) Obtain your starting City-State card and place adjacent to your Hero Jumbo Card. This is your Hero's starting location.
5D) Obtain a random starting Quest from the shuffled Quest Deck and place it face-up in your play area.
5E) Obtain your tokens: 1 Player Token (The Player Token is the large 10X10 mm cube. Place it on the Main Board at your starting City-State location) ; 10 Quest trackers (keep these smaller 8X8 mm cubes in your personal supply); and finally obtain 3 Resource Tracker tokens: 1 red Health tracker, 1 orange Spirit tracker, and 1 yellow Virtue tracker.
5F) Place your Resource Tracker tokens on your Hero Jumbo Card as per your starting Hero stats (eg, Herakles begins with 4 Health, 0 Spirit, and 0 Virtue).
6) Obtain the Supply Mat. Populate it as follows (beginning top left): 1) Curse Card Deck (face-up), 2) The Hector Automa deck (shuffled, face-down), 3) City-State cards (dual-sided cards in any order), 4) Pantheon cards (dual-sided cards in any order). Obtain Drachma and Talent tokens and create the currency supply.
7) Obtain the Hector Automa Jumbo Card. Place the Health tracking token on the Jumbo Card at the "10" value. Place the Virtue and Spirit Trackers off to the side.
7) Obtain the Hector Automa 10X10 mm Player Token and place it on his starting map location (the Temple of Ares).
Competitive Mode has been set up and you are ready to begin the first turn!
7) Obtain the Hector Automa Jumbo Card. Place the Health tracking token on the Jumbo Card at the "10" value. Place the Virtue and Spirit Trackers off to the side.