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purchased from arcade and customized. i don't like to rotate the dice to keep track of the score. i prefer a track that goes up and down

Tin components and some custom damage tokens and dice

Gate (2020)

Players

Best: 1

Playing time

15–30 min

Age

12+

7.40

Average rating

825

Ratings

1.72/5

Weight

#3589

BGG rank

Top 5,000

Designer:Jason Glover

Artist:Jason Glover

Publisher:Grey Gnome Games

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

Game DNA

Strategy5.0

Luck5.0

Interaction2.0

Complexity3.4

Theme6.0

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

HorrorMedievalHand ManagementDeck, Bag, and Pool BuildingSolo / Solitaire GameMarket

Overview

Gate is a solitaire tower-defense game in which you take on the role of the leader of a small medieval town under siege from a swarm of vile creatures from the local forest. You have to manage the health of your town's gate, the tower, and the local farm. In addition, this attack is causing fear levels to rise. If you cannot keep your gate standing or if the fear of the townspeople gets too high, you lose the game. If, however, you can hold off the swarm of enemies long enough, you will be victorious!

Gate uses deck-building as the driving mechanism in the game. You start with three starting cards, but as the game progresses you can recruit new people from your town to help your cause. Each character has unique abilities, and some even have special powers. The enemies in the game get increasingly more difficult with each new wave, so you have to make good choices as to when to spend resources on fighting off your foes, upgrading your command, and repairing your town.

—description from designer