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Expansion for Lost Ruins of Arnak

Lost Ruins of Arnak: Twisted Paths

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Published
2025
Reach
Widely known (via base game)
Players
1–4
Play time
30–120 min
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How it plays

Earn the most points by exploring sites, defeating guardians, collecting idols, and advancing your research on one of two new temple tracks. On your turn, play a card to place a worker, buy a card, overcome a guardian, research, or pass, using resources and each map’s special mechanisms. After five rounds, score research, temple tiles, idols, guardians, cards, and remaining penalties; highest score wins.

Main mechanics

  • Deck / bag building
  • Drafting
  • Worker placement
  • Deck / bag building: You shape your own deck or bag of resources as you play.
  • Drafting: You pick from a shared pool and pass the rest along.
  • Worker placement: You claim limited action spots before anyone else does.
Full publisher description

Twisted Paths is the final major addition to the world of Arnak. Its highlight is a new double-sided map, bigger than the one in the base game, that features two new research tracks, each with unique mechanisms and components. On the map, you can choose to explore its daytime side and scale the white stone of the Owl Temple . It uses unique new temple tiles that, if combined together, can become extra idol slots, and a third research token, a lantern, that brings even stronger research rewards. You can also brave the night and journey through the dark caverns of the Spider Temple . This side uses a new resource, dark tablets, used to invoke mysterious altars and place artifacts directly onto the research track to be used when ascending the track. But beware using the dark tablets can give you strong rewards, but also cost you points should you become too ambitious! In addition to the two new maps, the expansion also contains new guardians, sites, and assistants. It also brings some solo content Rival tiles for the new maps, as well as Purple Rival tiles and Rival Objectives, two mini expansions we ve previously released online as print-and-play. Lost Ruins of Arnak: Twisted Paths was previously included in the Adventure Chest , a limited-edition storage box with an original insert designed by CGE. description from the publisher

How this expansion changes the base game

ComplexityNo change
Much lighterNo changeMuch heavier
DepthMuch deeper
Much shallowerNo changeMuch deeper
SkillNo change
Much more luckNo changeMuch more skill
InteractionMore
Much lessNo changeMuch more
Table ExpMuch better
Much worseNo changeMuch better
Integration / RefinementEssential
Makes it worseNo changeEssential
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