Rise of Tribes is a 2-4 player board game.
You are a prehistoric people, looking to grow in number, gather resources and lead your people to victory. Build villages, discover advancements and control territories to win!
Design by Brad Brooks (Letter Tycoon), published by Breaking Games. Thanks to Kickstarter, this game is full of upgraded components, more art and epic bonus content. For a limited time, we're offering a reduced price on both standard and deluxe editions. We hope you enjoy Rise of Tribes!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Rise ofTribes - Beasts and Bronze & Solo Mode
almost 4 years ago
– Mon, May 18, 2020 at 07:56:48 PM
Once upon a time, a mammoth and a sabertooth... discovered Kickstarter in 2017 (you were there)...
Then, an EVENT, a NEW KICKSTARTER! (Doubles rolled in 2020) and a new set of mammoth and saber were found, along with a cave bear, wolf and eagles too!
This ushered in the Bronze Age for the civilization game. A whole new competitive path to victory!
Also, another tribe is here - the Vul'Keth! And with them, a new solo mode as well!
The journey takes us across new lands... (Pssst... FREE BONUS TILES, UNLOCKED!)
THANK YOU so very much for supporting this game. If you haven't checked out the new adventure on Kickstarter, just 48 hours to go for Rise of Tribes: Beasts and Bronze. Help us share Rise of Tribes with everyone!
Oh, and everything fits in the box. AGAIN. :)
Cheers!
Peter and the Breaking Games Rise of Tribes Team
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Rise of Tribes News - July 2019
over 4 years ago
– Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 01:33:03 AM
Hi all!
We miss you! It has been 2 years since our campaign for Rise of Tribes, we hope some of you are still out there - and still playing the game. There's new editions in the works, an expansion on the horizon, promo tile information as well as info on our current Kickstarter (ending today) - so we wanted to share some news!
French Edition, "L’aube des Tribes"
We have partnered with the fine folks at Gigamic to produce a French version of the game - same exact components and quality as our English copies. It is releasing soon!
Rise of Tribes Expansion - "Beasts and Bronze"
Are you ready for this game to have more stuff? A whole entirely different way to win? The Beasts part of the expansion adds new event cards, while the Bronze part adds a new scoring path. You can mix and match either. Brad and I have been working on this expansion when possible (the current Kickstarter delayed it a bit!) but we should be able to get this tested fully this fall and then plan for release. More info to come soon!
We love our friends at BoardGameGeek, so we partnered with them to make a unique promo tile, called the Mesa. This works a lot like the Jungle and Desert tiles you have, where it is harder to acquire a resource (stone in this case). If you are interested in the tile, please check it out in the BGG Store!
If you LOVE Rise of Tribes and have not rated it on BGG, please give us a rating/comment here and share your feeling on the game! Thank you!
Rise of Tribes Debuts at Walmart! (and a New FLGS Edition)
HUGE NEWS - Rise of Tribes is headed to distribution at Walmart in the US! Walmart has wanted an exclusive on this game for a long time, they really love it. This is a big deal for our game, as it means that more people will find the game and be ready for your help to teach them all about it! More fans of the game means we can definitely grow this title further. Feel free to help us and get a gift copy of Rise of Tribes at your local Walmart and help many new gamers reach 15 points! (remember, it's what all tribes want!)
Also, We have repackaged the game and the Deluxe game to sell in friendly local game stores (FLGS) and are dubbing this "The Mammoth Edition" - the complete game, and a discount off the previous MSRP.
Rise of Tribes - TOURNAMENTS & COMMUNITY
Tournament Play is coming! To celebrate the new releases of the game, we have decided to partner with local stores in the US and host Rise of Tribes tournaments. For more information, check back on our website here in the events tab at www.RiseofTribes.com
Also, we have brought on some community manager help! Maya Coleman (Community Manager for Secret Hitler, Inhuman Conditions and Trogdor!) has joined our team. If you have not said hello to Maya yet, please say hi in our Rise of Tribes Facebook Group!
25+ Stretch Goals Unlocked! We have an epic fantasy Euro style game live on Kickstarter, called Dwellings of Eldervale. Designed by Luke Laurie and it features art (modular hex map too!) from our very own Rise of Tribes artist, Sergio Chaves!
Dragons, wizards, warriors, 16 factions to play, custom meeples, functional miniatures, and gameTrayz in every box! It's deeper than Rise of Tribes, but similarly smooth to learn. If you haven't taken a peek yet - jump in now so you can check it out in the pledge manager, because it is a HUGE savings over MSRP, and has exclusive content!
http://kck.st/2FxIVZN
Cheers all,
Thanks for reading, thanks for playing our games!
Peter and the Breaking Games team!
Cheers from our family to yours! Happy 2019!
over 5 years ago
– Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 01:22:08 AM
Hi all,
As we wrap up 2018, we just wanted to share a couple gifts with you, shared with us. I meant to post this first one with you when we first launched Rise of Tribes - Sergio Chaves illustrated so beautifully these 8 tribes, and I asked him to capture his process for one of them. He did so, shrinking weeks of work for the Tunga tribe into 12 minutes!
Then, Rise of Tribes released and went all over the world, and found it's way to the tabletop of composer Veronica Emer in Italy. Veronica has been so inspired by the visuals found in Rise of Tribes that she has composed a beautiful score for each of the tribes. She shared these with me and I set a portion of Sergio's process video - edited to about 4 minutes! to her score for the Tunga.
So this is a very shortened and crudely edited artistic expression of two people, which in turn is part of a global collaboration we all shared as we made the artistic expression "Rise of Tribes" a reality. We are so thankful for this gift! Please enjoy:
Speaking of 2019, Rise of Tribes will be back with news of a solo game mode vs the invaders, a promo hex tile for the Mesa, and an expansion, "Beasts and Bronze" - stay tuned for more!
Cheers,
Peter Vaughan & the team at Breaking Games
Rise of Tribes at International Spieltage 2018!
over 5 years ago
– Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 02:02:33 AM
In this update: Essen, Foreign Rulebooks, and teasers for the future of civilization.
Guten tag, Essen!
Breaking Games is going to be at SPIEL ’18 in Essen. (BOOTH 4D102). We're bringing our latest releases - Rise of Tribes, Expancity, Trellis and more! We will have Rise of Tribes Deluxe Upgrades if you missed them.
Expancity is selling out at show after show, so if you get excited by building games, tile laying games or 264 plastic pieces in the box!? - come see for yourself! Trellis is a light and beautiful tile game - available at Essen first in limited quantity. German, French and Spanish rulebooks included!
We are also involved in many meetings to bring Rise of Tribes to official release in other countries. More news to come when we make an official deal. Also available at the show:
PRINTED FOREIGN LANGUAGE RISE OF TRIBES RULEBOOKS
You can get these books, printed on the same quality stock as the English rulebook, at our booth (4D102) in the following languages: German, French, Dutch, Italian and Spanish. These match the PDF files that were delivered. Come on by to get one while supplies last!
Rise of Tribes Expansion!
Civilization marches ever forward, and we are so excited to say that we (mostly Brad) are hard at work on a Rise of Tribes expansion, adding in more possible paths to victory! Rumor has it that giant beasts will roam the land while some tribes may seek to enter the Bronze age! It's still in it's prehistoric phase, but we'll keep you updated as it develops!
Kickstarter Friends
One of our friends, James Rallison, creator of Odd 1s Out on YouTube is on Kickstarter with a brand new card game, Can't Catch Harry!
If you like quick party games, and/or cute moths, then go and show him some love.
-- Our friend Brian Henk at Overworld Games is delivering a brand new edition of New Salem: The Constable. New Salem is drafting, set collection, and hidden identity — it’s like 7 Wonders, but with witches!
Rise of Tribes enters the game convention, retail eras
over 5 years ago
– Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 01:17:27 AM
In this update, Rise of Tribes ratings, rules translations, games at shows, stores and more! If you don't yet have your copy of Rise of Tribes, please reach out: hello AT breakinggames DOT com - we're solving any outstanding cases of stone age delivery systems!
A quick shout out to those of you who have rated the game on your review site of choice! We're currently sitting at rank #1,515 of all 100,000 games on the board game database to end all databases (Board Game Geek.com or BGG) ! Our goal? Well, besides 15 points, it's to break further and further up this list. If you are enjoying Rise of Tribes (and we hope so), please consider giving it a rating. Here at: BGG (602 reviews!) and/or Amazon too (we have 2 reviews to build on) Retailers use ratings to determine which games to order, and of course user reviews help other consumers decide what to buy.
We've been thrilled with the interaction on the BGG site forums from all of you, let alone the fact that the rating has slowly been moving up steadily. One day, Brad announced we had passed Boggle at rank #2002, and I had a laugh. Clearly, our main goal, right? (before we drew a new goal, cycling with our village). Amused, I looked up some other games ranks, for comparison, thought I'd share.
Fellow Kickstarter games with awesome ratings: Grimm Forest(#890) - Great production, rich lore and fun design, Druid City Games Everdell (#763) Worker placement with a card engine twist, cool bits. Starling Games. Manhattan Project: Energy Empire (#199)! Minion Games. So proud of Luke Laurie and Tom Jolly on this design. Coincidentally, Luke has designed one of our next Kickstarter projects to come, Dwellings of Eldervale. ;)
Games with Hexes: Nexus Ops (#347). A cited area control inspiration for the game. Catan (#288). We don't have sheep, but we will trade wood for oxen? Scythe (#7)! Awesome game from Stonemaier Games. As a fellow game with uneven turns, we can dream big right? ;)
Unboxing Contest - Round 2 Winners!
First, a picture with our first tray winner, Ryan Kinnaman, who met with us at Gen Con to get his prize and tell us that the game was going over well in his group. So excited to hear!
Again, we are impressed by the number of videos and the creativity shown in all the entries for round 2. Thank you to all! We appreciate introducing this game to the world in video. Brad had another tough choice! He has selected a winner and two runner-ups:
Winner - Maxime Maurer We had no idea that games unboxed themselves in this way. More of our games should do this - looking at you recent batch of Kickstarters received! Maxime found a great way to focus and explore the game components, set to music and fun to watch - clearly a ton of work to make too. Congrats Maxime, you've won a sabertooth dice tray!
Runner-Up - Patricio Garcia - "Best Inclusion of a 3 Year Old" "Want any help?" "Nope!" This 3 Year old is ready to take charge of this game. She's a gamer at heart. She busted the deluxe and found nothing to punch out, but fortunately the main game was able to deliver. Nice video Patricio! And thank you Julie! Congrats, you've won a $10 gift card at the Breaking Games site!
Runner-Up - RLL/Report From a Fugitive - "Most Creative" Brad tweeted out when he saw this, "A Blend of WOW and What did I just watch?" You have to see it to know just what we mean. Truly an inspiring take on an unboxing video! Congrats - you've won a $10 gift card at the Breaking Games site!
Rise of Tribes in stores everywhere!
Rise of Tribes is hitting stores now. Yes, AND the Deluxe Upgrade - thanks to you all! We have US distribution, and Australia, maybe more (Canada?). If you know someone who missed out, they should be able to find at your friendly local game store - or ask for it if they don't see it. A lot of stores can't stock every game, and waiting to hear what customers ask for. Stores ask distributors, who then listen and order!
Demos! If you play games at your local store or cafe and would like to demo and teach it in that store, let me know. We can see about open demo copies, if supplies permit, future promos, etc. I know that this game is on the table, it will get played and enjoyed, so the more tabletops we can get it on, the better. Thank you.
Rise of Tribes Debut at Gen Con, PAX/Spiel next!
Speaking of games on the table, Rise of Tribes debuted at Gen Con 2018, and was a big hit. All our ticketed events filled up, (hundreds of seats!), and we had 4 games going in the booth at all times, all 4 days. The Deluxe Upgrade sets sold out, and the standard edition near emptied its stock as well. We are thrilled! Brad was on hand to teach the game, along with some great help from Envoy volunteers, Greg Barry and Mike Walsh.
Having fun at Gen Con!
Spiel news! Thanks for all who have reached out about joining us at Essen. We are still looking at our staff needs, and will reply to you all, and welcome the help if it works out for both of us. Also at Essen - 2 notes - we will have a small number of Rise of Tribes rulebooks matching our digital PDFs in German, French, Spanish, Dutch and Italian, cost TBD, but we know some may want an official printed copy. Secondly, we are debuting a new tile laying game Trellis, (has some flavor of Tsuro and Carcassone in a light package), one we are excited to debut and which comes with German, French and Spanish in the box!
MORE RISE OF TRIBES SHOWING AT: PAX Prime - just days from now! At the top of the Skybridge! Essen Spiel - October - We're excited to meet our International backers! BGG.con - November. We might have a special BGG promo to talk about, stay tuned! PAX Unplugged - December. A great end to the year!
Come say hello if you're at these conventions!
Foreign Language PDFs - Update!
We've finished the rulebook, leader, goal and event card translations for German, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch! Notice the little numbers in the corners of your cards? Those correspond to the PDF book for easy reference and look up of any card. If you requested one of these PDFs in the pledge manager, links should have been sent out to your email (except Dutch, clarifying one thing first). But feel free to reach out if you miss it.
We're close on Hungarian, Mandarin and Brazilian Portuguese. More info to come!
A special thanks to not only our translators, but also all of the backers who chimed in with notes to help us refine these documents! You are appreciated, and you've made the game accessible in more households!
Dananu Leader
Now it's time to take a peek at the last leader in our series covering the factions and corresponding leader powers in the game. By now, most of you know all of these, and have no doubt checked out each one. But feel free to shout out your favorite leader power in the comments!
- AGRICULTURE - If you can get your tribe settled on a remote lake, you might be able to get a few villages before the other tribes worry too much about it. By then, your fish will be plentiful and the 15 points is within easy reach.
CUNNING - Opponents will often forget that at any turn, you can make conflict occur when you need it to. This gives the Dananu player an edge for goal cards, a nice contrast to the village building strategy on the flipside.
Dananu offers players an interesting contrast in play styles, and you get to choose AFTER the board is setup and in player order, offering you flexibility.
- Well, I guess our work is mostly done here. I don't want to leave. I love all the interaction here on Kickstarter! Stay in touch, share your experience with the game! For those who haven't joined, we have a Rise of Tribes Facebook Group that is full of chat. Until next time, when I shall reveal some more info on sequels to the game, promos, solo mode?, new games featuring Sergio's art and more!
