Towards Tandemera is a co-operative customisable card game: You get to build your own deck of 30 cards, and then use your allies, spells and equipment to challenge one of the 5 perils you face on your way to Tandemera.

Enjoy the challenging boss fights solo, or embrace the chaos of co-op. Allies may attack, and cards may be played even during other player's turns, so you'll have to work together in tandem if you want to win!

All the turns belong to you!

If you play co-op, you turn is never really your own. Your allies may attack whenever they are ready, and special fast cards may be played even if it isn't your turn. No need to zone out and stop engaging with the game when you've done your thing, because you always have some options in hand to help your friends out during their turns.

Casual fun or hardcore deck building? Your choice!

Each of the 5 enemies in Towards Tandemera has their own unique deck and gimick, and requires a different strategy to be beaten! You can fight against them in "normal mode" for a casual experience, but every enemy also has their own set of unique challenge rules that increase their difficulty. These rules can be used independently from each other; if the vanilla boss is too easy for your liking, use a few. If you want an insane challenge, use the entire list!

Over 270 cards, divided over 3 stand-alone boxes

...with 103 unique illustrations. All three games of Towards Tandemera are stand-alone and compatible. Meaning you can use any card from any box to build your deck, and you can then use that deck to fight against any enemy from any box.

Cards have been divided by playstyle:

• Journey's Beginning is a cheaper box for people that want to try out the game
• Boutique of Utter Chaos is geared towards co-op, with chaotic enemies and supporting player cards
• Prophecy of Dragon Fire is an ode to solo players, with difficult bosses and complicated player combo cards

You only have to buy the cards you feel you need. (Or buy them all (you should definitely buy them all)).

The World of Tandemera

Explore the world of Tandemera through the components of the game. The flavour texts on each card aren't just to enhance atmosphere; together they tell a story.

This Box Contains:

...the easiest cards to use, and the easiest enemy to fight against. It's a great introduction to the game!

72 cards, of which:

60 Player Cards

...which can be mixed and matched into decks of 30 however you want. The box contains instructions on how to make 3 pre-made decks, 2 of which don't have any overlapping cards so you can use them together. One of these decks focusses on using defensive equipment to protect your friends, one focusses on playing powerful spells to destroy the enemy. The third is a variation on the spell deck that excels in solo play.

1 Enemy with 12 cards:

The Mock Match

We are at the start of our journey; Elias wants to follow his missing father's footsteps and try to return to the land of his ancestry... But his mentor and guardian, Doran, doesn't want to lose this young man to the many perils he will face on the way. So he organises a mock match; to metaphorically, and literally stomp that idea out of his head.

The Mock Match is an introductory fight to Towards Tandemera. Doran will show you how to play by giving you tips, in-character, in the flavour texts of his cards. Make good use of his special Sword of Legacies card; by bouncing it back into his deck as quickly as possible, you gain extra turns to set up and defeat him.

Watch out!

To play this game you need something to keep track of the enemy's HP and your card's HP. These components are NOT included in this box!

It's recommended you use standard 6-sided dice for this, which can be bought in the part shop or here. There's also a special box with custom printed tokens and dials. Alternatively, you could buy neither as these components are easily replaced with any spindown dice or damage tokens you might already own. You only need a single set of dice/tokens regardless of how many boxes you buy.

Additionally, while this game can be played with 4 people, this box only contains enough cards for 2.

If you want to play with four people you need to buy any of the other 2 boxes: The Boutique Full of Utter Chaos (recommended), or Prophecy of Dragon Fire (also good but better for solo play). (Or this box twice, which, while possible, I don't recommend.)

Why no physical rule book?

Between special enemy rules, premade decks and weird edge cases, there were a lot of things that had to go in the rulebook. Fitting all of those things in a card-sized booklet wasn't really feasible. So either the game had to be shipped with an awkwardly big box unfit to store cards, at double the current price... or the rule book had to become digital. Hopefully you understand why this decision has been made! Going digital also allowed me to go all-out with diagrams and visual presentation a physical book wouldn't have the room for. The enemy book even contains a few short stories for those interested. You can download the pdf for free at the bottom of this page.