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Box cover used for the Kickstarter campaign.

The score track to Island Fortress. It is an arial view of Alcott Island.

This is the "new and improved" Island Fortress score track. This is the version that comes with the game.

Player board for the green (pine cone) player.

Island Fortress (2013)

Players

2–4

Best: 3

Playing time

45–90 min

Age

13+

6.30

Average rating

247

Ratings

2.89/5

Weight

#12404

BGG rank

Outside top 5,000

Designer:Bryan Johnson

Artist:Dann May

Publisher:Frost Forge Games +1 more

Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).

Game DNA

Strategy5.0

Luck5.0

Interaction5.0

Complexity5.8

Theme5.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

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Overview

In Island Fortress, you play a master builder chosen by Governor Cortland Hansen to help construct the mighty Fort Aldenford using the penal colony on Alcott Island. Your goal is to become the most distinguished architect with the help of your Taskmaster, Workers, and the Governor himself!

In the game, all players use identical decks of five Role Cards to plot their actions such as purchasing workers, building the wall, collecting money from the treasury, and more. In addition to scoring points for having built the majority of blocks on each row of the fortress wall, players can also gain various bonuses for completing favors for the Governor by building the walls in specific ways, following the Governor's preferred patterns.

Island Fortress, formerly known as Huang Di and sporting a Great Wall of China theme, won the first ever ProtoSlam competition held by Cambridge Games Factory in August 2006 and is the first published game by designer Bryan Johnson.