ECHO LIFEBOAT Full Set

**You will need your phone and a data connection to play these games, they use QR codes**

ECHO LIFEBOAT is a lo-fi space horror RPG that fits a large game into a tiny footprint. Explore a doomed ship with your friends (who are about to become your enemies) and try to be one of the lucky few to get a spot on the lifeboat and escape. 

Game includes access to a soundtrack by Morris Kolontyrsky from the band Blood Incantation!

ECHO LIFEBOAT is a rules-light RPG that plays almost like a party game but packs in plenty of backstabbing fun. Everyone wants to escape in the lifeboat, but there isn't room for everyone and if an infected person escapes, you get a terrible ending.

This is a diceless RPG where everyone is a player, no GM needed! The game uses a deck of regular playing cards instead of dice. There is a unique push-your-luck mechanic with card draws so if you fail an attempted action you can take a second draw, but if you bust it's a critical fail. 

You will explore a ship map by scanning QR codes with your phone. These codes will bring up events and encounters and best of all— we can change them on our back-end. Unlike a static game map, we can change the outcomes of these QR codes so in one game session you might open a door and find a helpful weapon, and in the next you open that same door and encounter some horrible creature. The QR codes let us pack depth into the little micro-game package, and give us ongoing flexibility to change the content. Normally we don't love integrating phones into tabletop games, but it feels ok within the sci-fi setting. AND, if you just hate the idea of using phones or QR codes, or want to play the game in the middle of nowhere, you will have access to the offline mode of the core game, with print-and-play cards that replace the code entries.

Each game is a single double-sided page that you can cut and fold to make into an 8-page zine barely larger than a playing card. The zine unfolds for the ship map. You can keep it in a backpack, the glovebox of your car— it's as portable as an RPG gets. If you don't want to use it as a zine you can print the map side and use the EZ-read rules you'll have access to. 

This package contains all 4 games, each with their own ship map and variations on the rules:

IEV VENTURE: The core multiplayer game experience.

EBER-NARI: An expansion ship with more weapons, spreading infection, and escalating chaos.

KILANDER STATION: An expansion station with more rooms to explore, a lethal fire mechanic, and a unique means of infection.

NCRV: PHOENIX: The dedicated solo game that combines story forks and light journaling.

You also get access to plenty of free resources including item and weapon cards, EZ-read rules, the aforementioned offline mode, player dashboards, and a soundtrack of absolute cosmic doom by Morris Kolontyrsky from Blood Incantation!

If you're curious about the game but don't want to buy the full set, we also have IEV VENTURE available for donation cost.