Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Roll and re-roll dice together, coordinate actions across Newcago, expose Steelheart’s weakness, and defeat its superpowered tyrant before the city falls.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Cooperative Game
Players coordinate their actions toward a shared objective and win or lose together.
Simultaneous Action Selection
Choose actions secretly or concurrently before revealing them together.
Dice Rolling
Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Push Your Luck
Choose whether to secure current gains or risk them for a larger reward.
Re-rolling and Locking
Keep selected dice and reroll the remainder to pursue a desired result.
Read the full game description
The Reckoners is a simultaneous cooperative dice game based on Brandon Sanderson’s novels. Each player controls a member of the resistance in Steelheart’s occupied Newcago and rolls a personal pool of action dice. Everyone may re-roll up to three times, discussing priorities while deciding which symbols to keep. The final dice become movement, research, attack, money, containment, and special actions that are resolved across modular city districts. Players must contain ordinary Epics, dismantle Enforcement, buy equipment, and collect the research needed to reveal weaknesses; Steelheart cannot be harmed until his own research value reaches zero. The opposition then retaliates through Epic abilities, population loss, new Enforcement, and Steelheart’s destructive movement through the city. Equipment, Plan tokens, and upgraded dice give the team increasingly flexible turns, but every district presents competing emergencies. The Reckoners win only by defeating Steelheart. They lose immediately if Newcago’s population reaches zero, making the game a tense exercise in cooperative triage, careful sequencing, and turning uncertain rolls into a shared plan.
