Not really

Players act simultaneously within each phase, conferring as they wish. Table talk is not just allowed; it’s likely necessary for victory!

Once all players have Grown, gained their Energy, and played their Power Cards for this turn, paying their costs as they do, it’s time to proceed on to the Fast Power Phase.

Each Spirit does three things, in the following order: Growth, Gain Energy, Play and Pay for Power cards.

This is the wrap-up phase at the end of each turn.

No

You can’t delay using a Fast Power until the Slow Phase, even if you want to. Use it now or forego it. You don't get your Energy back for foregoing a played Power card.

In Slow Power Phase players resolve Slow Powers, both the Innate Powers printed on their Spirit Panel and any Power Cards they played.

You choose

Powers may be resolved in whatever order the players want, so long as no Power interrupts another partway through

Players resolve Fast Powers — both Innate Powers printed on their Spirit Panel and Power Cards they played.

Not really

Players act simultaneously within each phase, conferring as they wish. Table talk is not just allowed; it’s likely necessary for victory!

1. Spirit Phase 2. Fast Power Phase 3. Invader Phase 4. Slow Power Phase 5. Time Passes

When the game calls for a decision (where Blight cascades to, which Invaders to do Damage to, etc) and it’s not specified who makes it, what do you do? If the decision springs from a Power, the Spirit using the Power makes the decision.

Yes

Any changes to a power carry over to the Repeat — eg: having its Damage increased by Devouring Teeth Lurk Underfoot, or its Range / Speed boosted by Sun-Bright Whirlwind.

No

In all cases, Repeats never cause further Repeats, so you can’t end up in an infinite loop.

3

The three cards with Repeat are all Major Powers - The Land Thrashes in Furious Pain, Winds of Rust and Atrophy, Powerstorm.

Repeating a Power means “use the Power’s text effects again”. It doesn’t grant the Elements along a card’s left-hand side again, just the text effects.

To Blight pool

Some Powers let you Remove Blight. When you remove Blight from the Island, return it to the Blight Pool.

Yes

Some Powers let you Remove Blight. When you remove Blight from the Island, return it to the Blight Pool.

Reminder tokens

Each player has optional Markers you can use to help you remember that a land is Defended this turn.

Yes

If multiple Defend effects are used in one land, they add together.

No

No, for example “Defend 2” means “Whenever Invaders deal Damage in target land this turn, reduce by 2 the Damage done to the land AND to Dahan.”

Some Powers let you Defend a target land, which reduces Damage done by Invaders to the land and/or Dahan. “Defend 2” means “Whenever Invaders deal Damage in target land this turn, reduce by 2 the Damage done to the land and to Dahan.”

No

Downgrade is a special form of Replace, so it follows all of the Replace rules (doesn’t generate Fear, preserves Damage taken, etc.)

Some effects Downgrade Invaders, representing gradual population loss. To Downgrade an Invader, Replace it with the next smallest Invader piece. Downgrade is a special form of Replace, so it follows all of the Replace rules (doesn’t generate Fear, preserves Damage taken, etc.)

It is Destroyed

To Replace an Invader: first you remove the Invader, then you put something else in its place. A Replaced Invader keeps any Damage it had. If the new Invaders thus has Damage dealt to it equal to its Health, it is Destroyed.

To Replace an Invader: first you remove the Invader, then you put something else in its place. A Replaced Invader keeps any Damage it had. Removing or Replacing Town or City tokens DON'T generate Fear.

Removing or Replacing Town or City tokens DON'T generate Fear, while Destorying them - does.

No

Some effects Remove Invaders, representing them fleeing in terror. Return the specified pieces to the supply. Removing or Replacing Town or City tokens DON'T generate Fear.

Some effects Remove Invaders, representing them fleeing in terror. Return the specified pieces to the supply. Removing or Replacing Town or City tokens DON'T generate Fear.

Yes, for some

Destroying a Town generates 1 Fear and Destroying a City generates 2 Fear, but Removing or Replacing does not.

Many Powers Destroy Invaders outright. Return the specified pieces to the supply. Additionaly, Invaders and Dahan are Destroyed when they are deal Damage equal to their Health.

No

Any time a Power, Fear Card, or other game rule does Damage, it always means “Damage to Invaders” unless explicitly specified otherwise. Most Spirit Powers do not harm the land or Dahan.

Yes

You can only Push into a valid adjacent land, not off the board or into the Ocean.

Yes

Gather only pulls things in from lands adjacent to the target; boosts to a Power’s Range do not affect Gathering distance.

No

If Gathering multiple things, they may come from different adjacent lands.

Other lands

You can only Push into a valid land, not off the board or into the Ocean.

No

If Pushing multiple things, they may go to different lands or not, as you wish.

This is the exact reverse of Gather. Push means “Move that many things out of the target land, to adjacent land(s)”.

This is the exact reverse of Push. Gather means “Move that many things into the target land from land(s) adjacent to it”.

No limitations

You may choose to Reclaim cards even if you still have cards in hand or even if you don't have any cards in your discard pile.

You may Reclaim cards by choosing your first Growth option at the begining of each Spirit Phase.

Reclaiming cards is an ability that allows you to return your previously played Power cards back to your hand.

Almost any

To Forget a Power card, you permanently lose a Power Card from your hand, discard pile, or in play. If you forget a card that you had in play, but haven't resolved yet, you lose its Elements and won't get to resolve it. You also don't get back the Energy spent to play that card.

Yes

You may choose to Forget a Major Power card that you have just Gained.

Yes

Each time you Gain a Major Power card, you must permanently lose one of your cards.

Yes

New Power Cards always go into your hand and can used in the same turn when you Gain them.

Yes

Whenever you’re told to “Gain a Power Card”: choose whether you’re gaining a Minor or Major Power.

For Reminders

A few Powers have temporary effects on a land. You may use Reminder tokens to mark such lands. Just remember to remove them at the end of the turn!

No

A golden rule goes as follows - One Land! One Turn! One Use!

No

All effects stay in play only for a single turn. A golden rule goes as follows - One Land! One Turn! One Use!

No

A golden rule goes as follows - One Land! One Turn! One Use!

A Range of 0 means a land where you have Presence.

No

There is no limit to how many Elements you can have. You gain Elements from playing Power cards as well as from your Spirit's Progression tracks. While a Power Card is in Play, you have the Elements shown.

There are eight Elements: Sun, Moon, Fire, Air, Water, Earth, Plant, and Animal. Elements are required to use your Spirits' Innate Power, which is an additional free action.

Each Spirit has their own Special Rule that changes the way they play.

Yes

Sometimes, it is beneficial to play Power cards just to receive Elements from them, and not for their main effects.

Range - how many lands away from your Presence you can use a Power or effect.

Power's Speed determines in which Phase will it be resolved - before or after Invaders take their actions.

No

Optional effects which may only be used if the Spirit has gained certain Elements this turn. The required Elements are not “used up”; the threshold is simply a check to see if they are in play.

Yes

You receive Elements from all your played Power cards even if you haven't yet resolved them or decide to not resolve their effects.

All player cards are generaly called Power cards. There are a total of three types of Power cards - Unique, Minor and Majot Power cards.

2 Damage

Each surviving Dahan deal 2 Damage to Invaders after they finish their Ravage action in a land with Dahan.

Yes

All damaged Invaders as well as Dahan get healed at the end of each round.

2 Health

Each Dahan has 2 Health in total. If they receive 1 Damage, turn them to the Damaged side.

No

If Dahan get Destroyed because of the Invaders or your Powers, they get removed from the board.

Yes

You choose to which Invaders Dahan will deal Damage, as long as they are all present in the same land.

No

Dahan are symbolising the native, semi-nomadic human inhabitants of the Island. You don't control them, but you may move them around the Island as a result of your Powers and if you Defend them from the Invaders, they will fight them back.

The Dahan are the native, semi-nomadic human inhabitants of the Island. They coexist well with the land and the Spirits. They also aren’t too thrilled about the Invaders’ colonization, but are wary of initiating violence.

Yes.

Blight added to lands during the game requires you to Destroy one Presence from each Spirit with Presence in those lands. It doesn't matter what is the reason of Blight appearing on the Island, it always requires you to Destroy Presence in those lands.

Yes.

Yes.

If you add Blight to an adjacent land as a result of a Cascade and it also already has Blight in it, you must Cascade from that land again, etc.

No

You only add one additional Blight to any one adjacent land from a Cascade.

Cascade: If the land already has any Blight and you need to add another Bllight to it, you also add one additional Blight to any one adjacent land.

No

Destroy one Presence from each Spirit with Presence in a land to which you add a Blilght token. This is true even if Blight is added as a result of a Cascade.

After Setup, whenever you add Blight to a land, in that land, Destroy one Presence from each Spirit with Presence there (including when Blight cascades). Destroyed Presence is placed next to the Island, not returned to the Spirit Panels. Additionally, if the Blight pool is ever empty, you lose the game.

From the Blight pool

When you add Blight to the Island during play, take it from the Blight Pool.

Invaders slowly but inexorably Blight the land. A certain amount of Blight is normal in nature — such as damage from a forest fire — but too much will overwhelm the Island.

If a City take a second damage, put an Energy Marker by it to note that it has taken another damage.

Different Invader pieces have different amount of Health. Explorers have 1 Helath, Towns have 2 Health and Cities have 3 Health. If 1 damage is dealt to Towns or Cities, you flip their tokens to the other side.

Yes

All dealt Damage is healed at the end of each round. To fully Destroy an Invader Town or City, you must do so in a single turn.

Source of Invaders is important during Invader Explore action. New Explorers only appear in lands that have or are adjacent to source of Invaders and those are - Town, Cities and Ocean.

No

Invaders don't directly attack or damage Spirits. Invaders only damage the land and Dahan as a result of their Ravage action.

Invaders is a general term that refers to Explorers, Towns and Cities.

Yes

You resolve the base effect and all threshold effects that you meet, in order from top to bottom. You may also choose to skip using any of the achieved effects, unless it says that it is mandatory.

Not really

Innate Power effects operate as thresholds. You resolve the base effect and all threshold effects that you meet, in order from top to bottom. Exception: If a threshold says “Instead”, it replaces the effects of previous levels.

No

Innate Powers don't count for the sake of Card Play limit and are basically an additional free action you can perform each turn.

Each Spirit has their own unique Innate Power. Each Innate Power has their own Speed, Range and Target, but they don't cost Energy to use. Rather they require you to have enough Elements to use their bonuses. Innate Powers don't count for the sake of Card Play limit and are basically an additional free action you can perform each turn.

Whenever you would Add a Presence from your Presence track, you may instead use one of your Presence from anywhere on the Island. This is most often useful if all your Presence is in play: you can still reposition it.

No

Destroyed Presence is removed from the game. Once you take a Presence token off your Presence Tracks, they never return back there.

You can't actively use the bonuses provided by your Presence Tracks, but rather they are active all the time, once they are uncovered.

See the following rule(s) to find an answer to this question.

You may return previously played Power cards from choosing your first Growth option.

Via Growth

You primarily place new Growth tokens to the Island from your chosen Grwoth options.

You primarily gain new Power cards from your Growth options, but some Power cards also allow players to gain new Power cards.

No

You must only choose a single Growth option each turn.

No

You must choose a Growth option each round.

At the begining of each Spirit Phase, each player chooses one of their Growth options and gains all associated bonuses from it.

No

Each player can only use their own Energy and they can't share them with other players. There are some Power card effects that allow you to target other players to receive Energy, though.

It depends

You get Energy each turn based on the highest uncovered number on your Energy Track.

You get Energy each turn based on the highest uncovered number on your Energy Track. You may also get additional Energy from some Growth options.

Not really

There are two main rules that you must follow when playing Power cards - you must not play more cards than your Card play Track allows and you must pay the Energy cost of your played Power cards in full.

It depends

Each Spirit's Card Play track shows how many Power cards they can play each turn.

No

Out of game

Any Presence that is removed from the Island is removed from the game.

Presence tokens determine in which lands you are "considered" to be in and from which lands you may use your Powers from.

Some card effects refer to "my land". Any land that has your Presence tokens in them is considered to be "your land".

Yes

Multiple players can have their Sacred Site in the same land.

Yes

Multiple players can have their Presence tokens present in the same land.

Any land with 2 or more of your Presence tokens is considered to have your Sacred Site in it. Multiple players can have their Sacred Site in the same land.

Round tokens are called Spirit Presence and they signify in which your Spirit is considered to be in.

There are four different types of terrain a land can be - Jungle, Mountian, Sands or Wasteland.

No

The Island is divided into 2 or 3 Boards. They are separated by a brown line and it is only important for setup purposes.

By gaining all Fear tokens from your Fear pool you earn 1 Fear card.

2 Fear

You earn 2 Fear for destroying a City.

1 Fear

You earn 1 Fear for destroying a Town.

You earn Fear from Powers and by destroying Towns and Cities.

1

You start the game at Terror Level 1.

See the following rule(s) to find an answer to this question.

See the following rule(s) to find an answer to this question.

This is a special situation in which you win a Sacrifice Victory: you are destroyed, but the Island, the Dahan, and many other Spirits survive.

You win as soon as you complete your current victory condition determined by your Terror Level.

There are three ways in which you can lose the game.

Yes

Yes, any Spirit from this game or any other Spirit Island game/expansion can be used to play Horizons of Spirit Island.

No

No, Horizons of Spirit Island uses a game board that is balanced and designed to be played at most with 3 players. However, the original Spirit Island game can be played with more than 3 players.

No

The side you use is based on the number of players in the game. If you are playing a solo game or with 2 players, you use the 2 player side. If you are playing with 3 players, you use the 3 player side of the board.

2 player side

When playing solo, you use the 2 player side of the game board.

You randomly return back to the box 1 card from each Tier, then you place all remaining Tier II card on top of Tier III cards. Finally, you place remaining Tier I cards on top of that to finish the Invader deck.

No

No, you randomly return 1 Invader card from each Tier I, Tier II and Tier III piles back to the box.

Yes

When preparing the Fear deck you place the Terror Level III card 3 cards from the bottom and the Terror Level II card 3 cards above that. As a result the Fear deck is divided into 3 groups of 3 cards each.

9

You always randomly and without looking select 9 Fear cards from which to create a Fear deck.

No

You always randomly and without looking select 9 Fear cards that will be used in the game to create a Fear deck.

6

You add 5 Blight tokens per player + 1 additional token to the Blight pool during setup. In a solo player game your Blight pool will have 6 tokens in total. Return other unused Blight tokens back to the box.

11

You add 5 Blight tokens per player + 1 additional token to the Blight pool during setup. In a 2 player game your Blight pool will have 11 tokens in total. Return other unused Blight tokens back to the box.

16

You add 5 Blight tokens per player + 1 additional token to the Blight pool during setup. In a 3 player game your Blight pool will have 16 tokens in total. Return other unused Blight tokens back to the box.

12

You add 4 Fear tokens per player to the Fear pool during setup. In a 3 player game your Fear pool will have 12 tokens in total. Return other unused Fear tokens back to the box.

8

You add 4 Fear tokens per player to the Fear pool during setup. In a 2 player game your Fear pool will have 8 tokens in total. Return other unused Fear tokens back to the box.

4

You add 4 Fear tokens per player to the Fear pool during setup. In a solo player game your Fear pool will have 4 tokens in total. Return other unused Fear tokens back to the box.

No

You need to shuffle the Minor and Major Power card decks separately.

No

Players start in different Island boards only during setup. Afterwards, players may spread across all Island.

No

Each player must select a different Board in which to start the game.

See the following rule(s) to find an answer to this question.

No

As the last step of setup, Invaders only perform their Explore action and move the revealed Invader card to the Build action space.

See the following rule(s) to find an answer to this question.

No

No, you must use all gained Fear cards during the next Invader Phase, even if they end up doing nothing.

No.

You use only the effect listed under the current Terror Level.

You use only the effect listed under your current Terror Level.

Terror Level cards represent the amount of accumulated fear in Invaders from your actions. Terror Level cards also unlock easier victory conditions for the players.

No

All gained Fear cards are resolved at the begining of the next Invader Phase.

At Invader Phase

All gained Fear cards are resolved at the begining of the next Invader Phase.

No

Invaders don't attack or deal damage to Spirits directly. They only damage the lands and Dahan.

No

Invaders damage the land and the Dahan in it for the same amount of damage. Invader damage can only be reduced by Defend effects applied from various Powers.

You choose

You choose in which order Invaders perform their Ravage action, but they perform it all possible lands.

2 damage

Each surviving Dahan deal 2 damage to Invaders after they finish dealing their damage during the Ravage Invader action.

After Invaders deal their damage in the land any surviving Dahan fight back. Even if Invaders do no damage to the land, Dahan still fight back.

Only 1

It doesn't matter how many damage Invaders deal to the land, if they deal at least 2 damage, you need to add 1 Blight token to it from the Blight pool. You never add more than 1 Blight token to lands as a result of a single Ravage action.

If Invaders deal 2 or more damage to a land during their Ravage action, you add 1 Blight token to it from the Blight pool and remove 1 Spirit Presence tokens from each Spirit in that land from the game.

Nothing

3 damage

Cities deal 3 Damage to lands and Dahan during Invader Ravage actions.

2 damage

Towns deal 2 Damage to lands and Dahan during Invader Ravage actions.

1 damage

Explorers deal 1 Damage to lands and Dahan during Invader Ravage actions.

Invaders damage lands and destroy Dahan during their Ravage action.

No

Invaders only Build in lands in which they have at least 1 Invader token - Explorer, Town or a City.

No

When Invaders Build a City, you add it in addition to any other tokens already present in those lands. Nothing is replaced during Invader actions, only new tokens are added to the Island.

During Invader Build action they Build new Towns and Cities on the Island. Invaders Build a Town in all lands during their Build action, unless they have more Towns than Cities in them. In those cases, they Build a City.

During Invader Build action they Build new Towns and Cities on the Island. In all lands that have more Towns, than Cities, Invaders Build a new City. In all other cases, they Build a Town.

New Towns and/or Cities appear on the Island as a result of Invader Build action.

New Explorers appear on the Island as a result of Invader Explore action.

Explorers are added to Coastal lands, to lands that are adjacent to or contain Towns and/or Cities.

New Invaders appear on the Island during the Explore and/or Build Invader actions.

At the end of each Invader Phase you move all face up Invader cards one space to the left.