Estate: Raise the Realm - Game Intro
It is a time of rebuilding after the Great War. Do you have what it takes?
In Estate, players take on the role of a Noble Leader of a Great House who is bequeathed an Estate post war. Each Leader begins the game with resources, a special ability, a unique build of construction(s) and/or citizen(s) cards within their Estate, a Family Secret objective, and workers prepared to rebuild.
A worker placement reconstruction challenge, players must use their workers wisely to optimize their Estate’s growth over the five Eras of game play. Workers can be used to play cards, gather resources, produce on cards, and draw new cards. As the Eras progress and your Estate grows, worker actions become more powerful.
The Estate with the most victory points at the end of Era five wins the game!
Game Overview
Estate is a medieval fantasy worker placement engine builder board game, where players take on the role of a noble house rebuilding their Estate.
Played over a series of five Eras (rounds), within each Era players take turns placing one worker at a time, proceeding clockwise. The Era ends when each player has used all available workers.
Gameplay takes ~20 mins per players, making it a uniquely fast paced yet strategic engine builder. With over 50 unique Estate Cards and multiple variations in game setup, Estate was designed to have endless repeatability.
The game takes place over 5 Eras. At the start of each Era, an Era Event is revealed, introducing an effect (either positive or negative) and an objective for which players compete.
There are 8 unique Noble Leaders that players can choose from. Each Leader has a narrative backstory, special ability, unique starting cards, and asymmetrical Estate Tracker.
During each Era, players take turns using their workers to take 1 of 4 actions within their Estate:
Produce on Estate cards to activate their effects
Draw Estate cards into your hand
Take a Gather action on the shared Realm board
Expand your Estate by playing an Estate card
Example Estate Cards
Game End Scoring: There are 8 ways to score victory points within Estate:
Victory points of cards played
Gold collected (1 point per gold)
Tucked Cards (1 point per tucked card)
Resources stored on top of cards (1 point per resource)
Era Event Objectives won
Family Secret Objectives
Completed Estate Tracker Rows (7 points per row)
Any At Game End Card effects