Political Intrigue in Revolutionary Mexico 

Profit from unrest. Manipulate politics. Decide the fate of Mexico. 

Looking for a historical board game where you profit from revolution and manipulate regimes? In Pax Porfiriana, you play as a powerful hacendado during the final years of Porfirio Díaz’s dictatorship in Mexico. Build banks, exploit mines, and fund private militias, all while influencing a fragile political landscape teetering on collapse. Support rebels, fund bandits, or engineer reforms with the revolutionaries, to become the new president.

This dense, historically grounded board game uses card-driven engine-building tactics and regime-changing triggers to shape a volatile political landscape. Victory demands perfect timing,and the will to seize power when the old order collapses.

Why Play Pax Porfiriana?

• Master the Revolution: Use card-driven engine building to fund bandits, rebels, or federales.

• Topple Regimes: Trigger coups, revolutions, or assassinations to seize power at the perfect moment.

• Deep Historical Strategy: Every card and mechanic is grounded in the real events of the Mexican Revolution.

• Cutthroat Competition: Navigate a volatile landscape where timing and foresight are the only paths to victory.

Game designer: Matt Eklund, Phil Eklund

Artist: Axel Kai-Nilsson

Complexity: 3.60

How to play Pax Porfiriana?

Each turn goes as follows:

Action Phase: Perform three actions, such as play new cards, get new cards from the market, speculate on cards in the market, purchase land, or redeploy troops.

Discard Headlines: Remove any Headlines (i.e. cards with the Bull-Bear icon) that have reached the leftmost position in the Market.

Restore Market: Restore the Market to twelve cards.

Income Phase: Collect one gold per Income, Extortion, and Connection Cube in play. If Depression, pay one gold for each card in play (includes Partners and Enterprises in your Row, and all of your Troops).

• 2 Rulebooks incl. solo variant
• Mapboard in cloth
• Cards 
• Prestige score board
• Metal coins
• Jail + Unrest tokens in wood with silkscreen
• Player cubes

Game designer: Phil Eklund

Living rules and other files, administrated by respective game designer.

• Downloadable rules Pax Porfiriana EN 
  
• Playtest Pax Porfiriana Ultimate Edition on Tabeltop Simulator Steam
  
• Board Game Geek Pax Porfiriana Ultimate Edition
• Board Game Geek Pax Porfiriana (1st Edition)