Pax Illuminaten Board Game
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How to play
How to play
Pax Illuminaten is a crunchy boardgame that packs a lot of punch in a small box. A few key highlights of the design:
- Players will explore a map of Luminary cards (18th-century figures) and build co-occupied connected networks as they try to accomplish game-winning plots.
- The victory conditions change every game, with a high degree of interaction as players strive to outmaneuver their opponents to achieve the victory conditions first.
- Multi-purpose and multi-suited cards create deep decisions and tough calls. Cards are used for building the map and accomplishing goals, resource generation, actions, and resolving battles between players.
- Core mechanics include area control, territory/network building, and hand management. Mix in a dose of negotiation and double-think/bluffing, and you have Pax Illuminaten.
Overall, the game provides a unique, historical look at the theme combined with rich gameplay and relatively quick playtime, all in a compact package.
Content
Content
What's on the box
| Cardboard 2 Piece Box | 155x155x70 |
| Rulebook | 140 x 140 mm |
| Luminary Cards | 64 X 89 mm |
| Faction Cards | 64 X 89 mm |
| Event Cards | 64 X 89 mm |
| Plot Cards | 64 X 89 mm |
| Starting player card | 41x63 mm |
| Contact cards | 41x63 mm |
| Areopagus placards | 140 X 140mm |
| Influence tokens | 15x15x4 mm |
| Favor tokens | ca 13 mm |
| Action Cubes | 8 mm |
| Ziplock | 100 X 120mm |
| Chamberlain token | |
| Bot placards | 140x140mm |
| Bot token |
Secret Orders and Enlightened Conspiracies
Pull strings in the shadows to ignite the Enlightenment.
Looking for a secret society board game where you shape the Enlightenment from the shadows? In Pax Illuminaten, it’s 1776 in Bavaria, and the world is on the edge of transformation. As a powerful Illuminati leader, you’ll pull strings behind closed doors to spark revolutions, spread radical ideas, and climb the ranks of Europe’s intellectual elite.
With tableau-building and covert engine-building mechanics, this strategy game blends mystery, manipulation, and historical speculation. Can you outwit your rivals and guide the Enlightenment from the shadows? And can you unravel the hidden secrets in the game?
This is a game of subtlety, strategy, and secrets.
Why should you play Pax Illuminaten?
• Secret society strategy: Operate from the shadows to shape history and revolution
• Tableau and engine-building mechanics: Build influence through thinkers, plots, and networks
• Asymmetric power and hidden depth: Compete with rivals for control of Enlightenment ideals
• Atmospheric historical setting: 18th-century Bavaria reimagined through conspiracy and speculation
Game designer: Oliver Kiley
Game developer: Robin Spathon Ek
Artist: Madeleine Fjäll
