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Sword & Snow

The more you win, the more you feed the undead.

Armies clash for territory, but every force you defeat rises as undead. Crush enough enemies and you haven't dominated the board. You've condemned it.

Players
1–5
Min per player
45–60
Age
14+
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The Sword and Snow game box, showing a bloodied sword standing in a snowfield

Victory has a price.

In most games, defeating your rivals is the goal. Here, it's the problem.

Every win feeds the dead

Each force you defeat rises as undead. The harder you fight, the stronger the threat grows.

Every alliance is a calculation

How much do you need this player alive? Without them, the undead grow beyond what any army can hold.

One desperate move left

A player with nothing to lose can stop fighting the undead and let them take everything. A loss for the board, and a win for them.

Ink, snow and blood.

Sword & Snow plays out across a frozen realm painted in watercolor, where cold beauty hides a bloody struggle for control.

  • Area control with a twist: winning feeds the threat
  • Alliances you can't afford to lose, and can't fully trust
  • A last resort that lets a desperate player doom the whole board

Game details

Designer
Henry Darmawan
Art director
Kevin Terahadi
Genre
Area control
Players
1–5
Play time
45–60 min per player
Age
14+
Strategy
5/5
Interaction
4/5
Luck
1.5/5
Complexity
4/5

What's in the box

  • Main Board
  • 5 Character Boards
  • 5 Player Aids / Veils
  • 5 Summer Sheets / Battle Sheets
  • 5 Hongshan
  • 28-page Rule Book
  • Rule Book for solo, 2 and 5 players
  • 70 Skill Cards
  • 36 Relic Cards
  • 16 Scheme Cards
  • 24 Enlightenment Cards
  • 24 Advisor Cards
  • 10 Unique Undead Cards
  • 40 SnowJade
  • 50 Tael / Gold
  • 40 Ore
  • 30 Wood
  • 15 Chi Tokens
  • 15 Chi Limit
  • 3 Vengeance Tokens
  • 12 Battle Tokens
  • 5 Divine Tokens
  • 5 Morale Tokens
  • 5 Liquor Tokens
  • 3 Undead Tokens
  • 20 Officer Tokens
  • 4 Combat Markers
  • Season Marker
  • Year Marker
  • Decree
  • 5 Decree Holders
  • 15 Ruin, Field and additional City pieces
  • 3 Dice (D4, D6, D12)
  • 2 Prince miniatures
  • 2 Princess miniatures
  • 20 Soldier miniatures (red, blue, grey, green)
  • 8 Tower miniatures (red, blue, grey, green)
  • Monk miniature
  • 5 Monk Soldier miniatures
  • 2 Monk Tower miniatures
  • 5 Undead General miniatures
  • 30 Small Undead miniatures
  • 10 Big Undead miniatures
  • Jiang Shi, Bai Yan Mo Jun, Daji and Tao Wu miniatures

On the table.

  • Squads of grey, blue, red and green miniatures spread across the regions of the map, seen from above
  • A red robed commander among red, green and blue miniatures, with a phoenix tower behind
  • Grey shield-bearing warriors around their leader, beside the Sword of Qian Jian relic card
  • Close-up of a hooded blue spearman, with a mounted figure behind
  • A green figure in a wide hat in front of the Sword of Qian Jian relic card
  • A blue army gathered on the board: a rider, a hooded warrior and a tall robed figure among smaller units
  • A dark blue dragon coiled around a tower, next to a robed blue figure
  • A green figure standing inside a ring, with red and green warriors and blue units around
  • A spiked blue beast miniature on the board, with cards laid out behind it
  • The whole board in the middle of a game, crowded with miniatures from every faction

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Realm of Sword and Snow, written in brush calligraphy