Calenture: Survival and Deception on the Open Sea

Shipwrecked among strangers in the middle of the ocean, with scarce resources and even scarcer trust. As tension rises and starvation sets in, your companions may be more inclined to throw you overboard to make rations last longer. All while mother nature is doing her best to ensure that no one is returning home. Calenture is a social deduction game in which you have to gather your collective resources to keep the crew alive. But who can you trust when the food turns up spoiled and nobody seems to know where the gun has gone?

"Calenture: Survival and Deception on the Open Sea" is a card game that's easy to bring with you, set-up, and teach others. The playtime is 20-40 minutes and features mechanics such as hidden agendas, resource, card management, random event cards, voting, bluffing, and player elimination. Compared to other games in the genre it is somewhere between simple and fast games like "The Resistance" and "Werewolf" and the more mechanical games like "Dead of Winter" and "Battlestar Galactica".

Each round, players will draw cards from a deck of items. It can be food, weapons, and other items that can help or hinder the survival of the group. Event cards will shake things up by giving away information and presenting challenges like starvation, where the players have to collectively collect food for the group. But can you trust the current leader to share the food fairly? The game ends when all players are either dead or rescued. There can be multiple winners or no winners, as it is all about fulfilling your private agendas.

The game features both a lot of opportunities to be sneaky and manipulative as well as giving the players tools to get information about their fellow players intentions.

Designed by Alexander Schach and Tobias Lindberg