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How could you limit your new village to the surface? You immediately start organizing expeditions and building houses underground as well as on the surface. With any luck, youll build a village even stronger than your last-- strong enough, even, to turn away the barbarians the next time they come knocking. Above and Below is a mashup of town-building and storytelling where you and up to three friends compete to build the best village above and below ground. In the game, you send your villagers to perform jobs like exploring the cave, harvesting resources, and constructing houses. Each villager has unique skills and abilities, and you must decide how to best use them. You have your own personal village board, and you slide the villagers on this board to various areas to indicate that theyve been given jobs to do. Will you send Hanna along on the expedition to the cave? Or should she instead spend her time teaching important skills to one of the young villagers? A great cavern lies below the surface, ready for you to explore-- this is where the storytelling comes in. When you send a group of villagers to explore the depths, one of your friends reads what happens to you from a book of paragraphs. Youll be given a choice of how to react, and a lot will depend on which villagers you brought on the expedition, and who youre willing to sacrifice to succeed. The book of paragraphs is packed with encounters of amazing adventure, randomly chosen each time you visit the cavern. 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A lost love, redemption, acceptance, a family rejoined-- these are the fires that fuel the wanderers journeys, but can they overcome their own greed and inner demons on the way?\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eIn Near and Far, you and up to three friends explore many different maps in a search for the Last Ruin, recruiting adventurers, hunting for treasure, and competing to be the most storied traveler. You must collect food and equipment at town for long journeys to mysterious locales, making sure not to forget enough weapons to fight off bandits, living statues, and rusty robots! Sometimes in your travels youll run into something unique and one of your friends will read what happens to you from a book of stories, giving you a choice of how to react, creating a new and memorable tale each time you play.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eNear and Far is a sequel to Above and Below and includes a book of encounters. 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