Above and Below: Haunted

You and your family have lived in the marshlands for generations. But your hometown is getting crowded and you’ve heard of a group of villages to the west, in a landscape of azure lakes, where the constantly flowing water has created a maze of watery caves, sinkholes, underground streams, and porous bedrock. There’s opportunity to start a new life there, catching fish, living in a stilt house on the lake, and exploring the deep sinkholes for rare ingredients and rusty treasures. You’ve packed up your favorite fishing pole and strapped the baby to your back, ready for a fresh start. If only you’d known about the ghosts, you might have stayed where you were. Above and Below: Haunted is a standalone sequel to Above and Below (The character tokens are compatible between editions), planned to release on the 10th anniversary of the original game. As in the original game, players compete to build the best village by recruiting villagers, constructing buildings, and exploring the caves below ground. Above and Below: Haunted features new stories and explores a new setting in the world of Arzium. This edition introduces wooden ghost tokens that can haunt your buildings and lower your reputation unless you perform a banish action to pass the spirits to your rivals. With two distinct cave types, new pearl tokens, and versatile boat tokens, you must balance the risks of dangerous exploration with the rewards of building a thriving lakeside community.

• Standalone Anniversary Sequel: Experience a completely new chapter in the Arzium series with fresh mechanics and stories, while maintaining token compatibility with the original game.
• New Ghost Mechanic: Manage haunted buildings with wooden ghost tokens that penalise your reputation, allowing for interactive play as you banish spirits to other players' villages.
• Dual Cave Exploration: Choose between normal and dangerous caves, with the latter offering high-risk lantern requirements in exchange for valuable pearls and rare treasures.
• Expanded Strategic Buildings: Utilise a full set of brand-new key and star buildings designed from the ground up to support diverse village-building strategies.
• Specialised Adventure Rewards: Collect forty unique adventure cards and use new boat tokens to modify die rolls or increase your coin supply throughout the game.