Epic Resort

Epic Resort is a strategic card game of deck-evolution, worker placement and resource management for 2 to 4 players.

Each player begins with a humble resort of a Beach and Tiki Hut, and a small set of workers. By hosting more tourists you earn more Gold (used for upgrading attractions and training workers), but now that your resort is crowded, you earn less Flair (used to attract Heroes and Tourists).

Apprentice - Can be sent to work at your attractions (keeping tourists happy) or trained into a skilled worker with new abilities.

Street Performer - Gains you extra Flair, or can be trained into a skilled worker.

Lazy Peon - Only useful for tossing into the jaws of a monster to end an attack (which permanently removes them from your worker deck). Use them wisely, you only have three!

Each round, players take turns performing one action each. Build your worker deck, upgrade your resort and attract new tourists and Heroes:

Attract Tourists from the Dock - filling them into your attractions to get more Gold.

Attract a Hero from the Dock - up to one per attraction, they defend your tourists or rest to gain victory points

Upgrade an Attraction - gain new abilities and victory points, but crushing the tourists at the previous attraction

Train a Skilled Worker - lose a basic worker from your hand, gaining new abilities to use right away

Pass - Taking no more actions this turn

The Dock is refilled after all players pass. A random mix of Tourists and Heroes arrive, but this is also when a monster may Attack! The monster picks who they are attacking (either by most Tourists or most Heroes), and the defending player has a choice:

Have their Hero defend, losing precious health but protecting the tourists

Let the tourists get eaten

Throw a Lazy Peon at the beast, immediately ending the monster attack

At the end of each round:

Score any fully rested Heroes

All remaining Heroes gain one health

Draw new workers and begin another Season

The game ends after all the monsters have been defeated. Victory goes to the player who scores the most points from rested Heroes and upgraded Attractions -- they have built the most Epic Resort!