Leviathan Wilds Founders Edition

Long ago, the once gentle leviathans lost their minds and tore the world apart. After generations of hiding and fighting, humanity discovered that the maddened leviathans can be restored. Climbers willing to take the risk must explore the wilds and work together to remove a series of binding crystals in order to heal the leviathans that roam the world.

In Leviathan Wilds, 1-4 players confront these colossal beings, with each creature depicted across a spiral-bound storybook that forms the game board. The book also forms the basis of a linked campaign mode built around the game's story, with each of the twenty included scenarios estimated to last around 45 minutes. Harder difficulty levels are also available for increased replayability.

Each character's deck of multi-use cards is unique, allowing them to climb, jump and glide around the board in different ways. The number of cards left in the slim deck represents their grip on the leviathan's body; if the deck runs out, the player loses their grip and begins to fall down the board until they are able to reach a rest space, which resets their deck. Moving on to rest spaces also offers a way to regain grip without falling. Other spaces reduce a character's health or grip, or they increase blight, a status that reduces their total hit points.

The leviathan has its own deck of cards, which trigger various effects at the start of a player's turn, ranging from targeted attacks that reduce health to effects that move players between spaces or loosen their grip. As the game progresses, the leviathan gradually gains rage, which intensifies the effect of its event cards.

The players' characters can move around a square grid laid over the creature's body by using action points – the number is determined by a card played at the start of their turn – and their remaining hand of ability cards to reach the crystals and reduce them to zero. Victory is achieved by reducing all the crystals, which vary in strength, to zero.