HERD: A Dinosaur Survival Card Game Is Almost Near Kickstarter Goal

Big news coming from one of our featured creators, Samantha Wren Nolton, and Table Top Gaming Company Wet Ink Games brought a new update on a previously announced game called HERD: A Dinosaur Survival Card Game.

A Kickstarter was launched on Tuesday, and the game has already raised $7,552. In this semi-cooperative card game, your goal will be keeping your herd safe from rapacious predators during the Mesozoic Era. The game currently has 101 backers and 24 days left.

How To Play:

Each Player has a HERD card, a HERD card which consists of Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Ankylosaurus, or Brontosaurus. On the player’s turn, Predator, and Prey cards are drawn, and players must fend off the attacks of terrifying monsters before their herd is eliminated! But with each turn, the Countdown Clock ticks down, and if it reaches zero with all herds alive, you have a chance of survival…until the next group of predators comes along! The Rulebook is available to look over, but listed below are more ways to play:

• The Goal to Survive until the end of the game.
  • There are three types of cards: HERD, Predators, and Prey
• Your Responsibility Is Your Herd: Sacrifice weaker Prey to survive attacks by Predators. Prey cards represent smaller dinosaur species in the vicinity that can distract a Predator or invoke specially evolved defenses and behaviors to protect the Herd from harm.
  • Tactics play a hand in your herd’s survival, but it is a Semi-cooperative Game- If you want to have a chance to win, all Herds have to survive!

For more on this upcoming game and new updates on HERD, be sure to check out and support their Kickstarter.

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