Hidden Mythos

Participants: 3-4 players

Description

Hidden Mythos
A downloadable game

Note: The game is best at 3 players, but playable at 3-4.

RULES

Overview

In Hidden Mythos, you will start out with a set of cards representing gods, places, heroes and monsters, your pantheon. All of these cards are hidden, so you need to remember which are which. These cards all give you points, but they have varying needs you need to fulfill in your other cards. Take cards from the other pantheons, swap them around, keep track of which card is where. After everyone has spent all their possible actions, reveal all your cards at the same time to see who has won!



Setup

Each player takes action 13 cubes.
Shuffle the 20 cards and deal 4 to each player, the rest are not used.
Every player carefully looks at their 4 cards and lays them face down next to each other in front of them.
Choose a start player. If you are playing multiple games, this is the player in the lead.


Cards

Each card has a suit/type, a point value (which may be variable) occasionally additional text. Suit is represented both by color and the symbol at the top. There are 4 suits, god (gold), monster (purple), hero (green), location (blue). A slash or an X in the value field denotes that the value changes depending on the text. The position of cards matters, so they may never be moved unless done by an action.



Flow of play

Each turn, you may secretly peek at exactly 1 card in the game, and then select one of the four actions. Play then continues to the next player

The actions are as follows:

Pay 1 cubes - Give a card to another player
Pay 2 cubes - Swap any two cards
Pay 3 cubes - Take a card from another player
Pay 2 cubes - Shuffle all your cards and rearrange them
You cannot give, take or swap the card you just peeked at in the same turn.

If you are out of action cubes, you are done and can take no more turns. You cannot pass your turn and must always take an action if able.



End of game

Once every player has spent their action cubes, the game is over. You now flip your cards and count your points. The one with most points is the winner. In the case of a tie, whoever spent their last action cube first wins.

The game is intended to be best when played best of 3. When playing multiple games in succession, note down your points and continue with a new game. The start player is the one in the lead.

Played at

Awards

Create Jam 2025 - Celebration Spring Edition (2025)

Links

• Itch.io page of the game