Project Doomsday

A soldier with a rifle over his shoulder stands in a burning street between black-market crates as a motorcycle rider and troops close in under circling helicopters

A disaster is coming. Stock up while the grid is online. Stay alive when the lights go out.

When the world ends, who will survive?

Prepare to winorprepare to die!

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The Project Doomsday game board: a 32-space loop around a city that is half neon skyline, half burning ruin

The premise

The Doomsday Clock is ticking!

Stockpile. Arm up. Survive.

While the grid is up, shop. Stockpile resources and build your arsenal. The moment disaster strikes, the grid goes down, credits freeze, and the game flips: now you're the target.

01Stockpile
Shop while the grid is up.
02Disaster strikes
The grid drops and the streets turn hostile.
03Survive to win
Highest net worth when the game ends.

A survivor with a rifle stands in a burning street lined with black-market supply crates and green neon signs

The Black Market

Sometimes you have to go underground.

Special abilities give you an edge. They will cost you. $200 a pull, no refunds, no questions asked.

Concealed Gun

Ambush? Mob attack? Flash it once a round and walk on by.

Smoke Bomb

Pop it and vanish. Escape a showdown without touching the dice.

Fake ID

Checkpoint, curfew, lockdown. Just smile and hand it over.

Emergency Airlift

Skip the roll. Call the chopper and land anywhere on the board.

Mobile Defib

Two jolts of second chances. Knock up to $300 off a penalty that would cost you cards.

Off-grid: the same street after the collapse, burning, with soldiers, black-market crates and a motorcycle rider

Grid online: a sunny tree-lined street with shoppers, cafes and the same man in a pressed shirt

Grid onlineOff-grid

While the grid is up

Credits flow. Shops open. Orders stand.

Surplus Store turns over three cards. Buy the one you want for $100, or pass on all three.
Black Market does the same for $200: Concealed Gun, Smoke Bomb, Fake ID, Emergency Airlift, Mobile Defib, Supply Theft, Lawfare.
Executive Orders are government decrees. Read the GRID ON line.
Event spaces draw a disaster, everyone pays its penalty unless they hold the counter card or stand on a safe space. Then the grid goes OFFLINE.

While the grid is down

Credits freeze. Cards are currency. The streets turn.

Credits are frozen. Penalties are paid with cards at their Grid Down value.
Every neutral space becomes a Conflict: Roadside Ambush, Armed Robbery, Rogue Patrol and more. Reveal a counter card or roll a die, 4 or better escapes.
Executive Orders now use the GRID DOWN line.
The grid comes back when anyone rolls doubles or someone lands on an Event space.

Survivors

Choose who walks into the dark.

Four survivors, four ways to read the city. Pick one, hand the other to your rival, and find out which of you was built for the blackout.

01 / 04

Defender: a soldier in a plate carrier with a shotgun over his shoulder

Archetype: muscleDefender

Walks toward the gunfire. When the dice go bad, the Defender was already carrying something for that.

02 / 04

Specialist: a survivor in a gas mask and armor with a pistol

Archetype: hazmatSpecialist

Masks, suits and filters. To the Specialist, Nuclear Fallout and Chemical Leak are weather reports.

03 / 04

Seeker: a hooded scavenger carrying a hatchet and a pickaxe

Archetype: scavengerSeeker

Finds the stash before the street does. Every Scavenge space is a payday; every alley is a shortcut.

04 / 04

Uplink: an armored operator in a helmet with glowing cyan optics

Archetype: operatorUplink

Hears the grid change before anyone else. Lives on the Black Market and never pays full price.

The decks

Six decks. 150 cards. One hand to survive.

Every card has a shop price and a Grid Down value, and the two are rarely the same. Buy the right gear and you survive. Buy the wrong gear and you won't survive the night.

Surplus Store cards: Gas Mask, Hazmat Suit, Medical Kit, Generator, EMP Shield

Surplus Store

25cards

$100 essentials for another day: Gas Mask, Hazmat Suit, Medical Kit, Generator, Water Filter, Winter Gear.

Black Market cards: Concealed Gun, Smoke Bomb, Fake ID, Emergency Airlift, Mobile Defib

Black Market

25cards

$200 and no receipts: Concealed Gun, Smoke Bomb, Fake ID, Emergency Airlift, Mobile Defib, Supply Theft, Lawfare.

Executive Order cards: Curfew Notice, Stimulus Payment, Government Shutdown, National Security, Emergency Broadcast

Executive Orders

25cards

Government decrees, each with a GRID ON line and a GRID DOWN line. Which one you obey depends on the lights.

Event cards: Nuclear Fallout, EMP Strike, Chemical Leak, Superstorm, Earthquake

Events

25cards

Nuclear Fallout, EMP Strike, Chemical Leak, Superstorm and 21 more. Everyone pays, then the grid goes dark.

Scavenge cards: Cache, Lucky Break, Supply Run, Shortcut, Ambush

Scavenge

25cards

Draw it and do what it says. Caches, supply runs and shortcuts, plus the ambush that comes with them.

Conflict cards: Roadside Ambush, Armed Robbery, Rogue Patrol, Roadblock, Looters

Conflict

25cards

Off-grid only. Roadside Ambush, Armed Robbery, Rogue Patrol. Reveal a counter card or roll: 4 or better escapes.

CommonRareEliteLegend

Expect the unexpected

The world is ending, one way or another!

A survivor in a gas mask and long coat walks through a fallout zone as a mushroom cloud rises over the city — Fallout zone. Keep walking.

A woman wades through storm surge under a rescue helicopter beside a New Orleans sign — Hurricane season never ended.

A hazmat-suited survivor carries a biohazard case through green chemical fog — Contain. Isolate. Survive.

A survivor and her dog stand in front of a burning Capitol as rioters fill the street — No law. No order.

A climber with an ice axe crosses a frozen, flooded freeway past a stranded ship — The sea took the city.

A hooded survivor in a respirator walks past a Quarantine In Effect, No Entry sign — Quarantine in effect.

A woman climbs out of the wreckage of a collapsed San Francisco freeway as waves break behind her — San Francisco fell overnight.

A soldier and his dog stand at a floodlit military lockdown checkpoint — Martial law at midnight.

A survivor and her dog walk past a No Safe Zones Left sign as a mushroom cloud rises — No safe zones left.

A rescuer carries a child through floodwater as a helicopter hovers over Miami — Some things are worth carrying.

A hazmat team walks out of a burning chemical plant in toxic green fog — The air itself is the enemy.

A survivor with a crossbow stands between protesters and riot police under a Curfew sign — Curfew in effect.

The event deck

Twenty-five ways for the lights to go out. Everyone pays, then the grid drops.

Grid offline

When the grid is offline, danger lurks.

Credits are frozen and the streets turn. Every neutral space you land on draws a Conflict: Roadside Ambush, Armed Robbery, Rogue Patrol, Looters. Reveal the counter card it asks for, or roll a die. Four or better escapes. Fail, and you pay in cards at their Grid Down value.

Roll 4 or better to escape

Fail and you pay in cards

Doubles bring the grid back

Ready when you are

The clock is ticking.

Play it before it's too late!