A Story-Driven 2-Player Deckbuilder
Assemble your army, grow your reputation, and become Legend. As the world falls to ruin, can you obtain control?
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Follow nowThe Hook
The hook isn't a tagline, it's the design. Ally Strength stays hidden enough that you rarely know if you're ahead, so you obsess over your rival's every move. That tension is EQL.
You each acquire cards from the same five-card Quest Board, and shop from a shared Trinket Board. Every card you take is a card they can't.
Unavoidable Events pit you against your rival, and the winner takes the reward.
There is no hand. You only ever have the five cards you've deployed, face-up. Yet the score stays murky until the very end.
Spring, 1861
A prophet named Barty Mon'Treese gathers millions on America's Southeast coast, promising to reveal the knowledge of creation. Families travel for weeks to hear him speak. At the sermon's climax, the crowd falls silent, and looks up.
Day Zero
Not enlightenment, but fire. The heavens split open above the gathered millions, and the light that was promised becomes the fire that consumes.
They would come to call it Devastation Day.
The Impact
The falling fire vaporizes and scars the land. Survivors who flee into the forests find nature itself turned hostile. The old maps stop meaning anything.
"Earth is forever changed, and no matter who comes out on top, there will be no safety, no security."
The Silence After
The words of the prophet, Barty Mon'Treese, were never heard, and the attack on those who had gathered left room for select individuals to begin their quest for power.
The world falls into war: the Fall of Mon'Treese.
From the Ashes
A new civil war has started, with members of four vastly different factions fighting among themselves for ultimate control of Earth.
In the dark heart of conflict, where forces collide and legends are born, one path prevails - the Eternal Quest of Legends.
Four Banners Over One Broken World
Four powers rose from the ruin, each certain the Earth is theirs. Pick a side; its Legend and Structure fight in your colors.
Doctrine of Force · Born of the First Death
The most Force-heavy faction in the game. The Infernal specialize in the banish pile, burning their own to fuel the fire and forcing unwanted cards into your rival's deck.
"The world is ending either way, so end it with fire."
How It Plays
Force and Charisma reset each turn. Earn them from your five deployed cards, your Legend, and your Structure.
Recruit Followers, pursue Encounters, and buy Trinkets from boards you share with your rival. Every card you take is a denial they face.
Encounters grant Reputation and Dominion, the only permanent scores and the only way to rank up and unlock your true potential.
When the Quest Deck runs out, the rival holding the most Ally Strength seizes victory.
The Traveler's Pack
Eight card types, every one feeding the race for Ally Strength: 4 Legends, 4 Structures, 28 Followers, 28 Encounters (+1 backer-exclusive), 9 Events, 50 Trinkets, 20 Starters, and the Phase and Counter cards that pace the war, plus dice, tokens, and the rule book.
Not mockups: these are actual pages from the EQL rulebook, teaching the anatomy of the cards you'll play.
Try Before You Back
EQL is fully playable on Tabletop Simulator today. Hundreds of playtests in, the mechanics are complete. Backing funds the remaining illustrations and the first production run, not an unfinished design.
The Road to the Fall
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Through early 2027
Updates, conventions, and open playtesting on Tabletop Simulator, shared as we build.
Q2 2027
A 30-day Gamefound funding campaign. Backers secure the game plus an exclusive Encounter card that will never be released again.
After funding
The remaining illustrations are completed and the first print run is produced with Honray Games.
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