Shuffle the item cards and form an item deck. Shuffle the basic action cards and form an action deck. For the purpose of interpreting rules, a player with 2 characters is treated as 2 players with 2 separate turns. If playing with 1 player, that player must control 2 characters. If playing with 2 players, the players may choose to control 2 characters each.

Place the Downtown travel map near the Adventure Book and place the party location marker on the Abbigail Lane space (the upper leftmost space) of the map.Įach player chooses a character, collecting its character deck box and laying its contents out in front of them. Place the Adventure Book in the center of the play area and put the sideboard to the right side of it. To set up a game of Aftermath, follow these steps: To win the campaign, players must accomplish the characters' personal goals while preventing the colony from disbanding.

In each Aftermath game session, players must explore the dangerous and shattered world, forage for supplies, accomplish missions, compete with rival rodents, and contend with vicious predators, all while racing against time, as leaving the colony unprotected for too long could result in tragedy.Īftermath is played as a campaign game, meaning that each session has an impact on the overall state of your colony and advances certain story arcs in the narrative. In it, players take on the role of small rodents trying to survive and thrive in a post- apocalyptic world where humans have mysteriously disappeared. Aftermath is a cooperative adventure game for 1-4 players.