The game is about dwarves who collect gems and exchange them for food so they can survive through the winter.
But that's not all, you have to build a kingdom and fight against terrible monsters. The game is a few to achieve victory has a season and you have to think about your actions during each of them.
At each step, your dwarves will do something in the kingdom, you will expand your lands or fight against monsters.
Shuffle the trade target cards, reveal 3 of them and place them in a row.
Put the rest aside, this is a deck of trading cards. These will earn you points at the end of the game.
Shuffle the Hidden Objective cards and deal 1 face up to each player․ Place the gem cards face down by type.
Give each player 9 kingdom cards of the same suit. Then 7 dwarves of the color of the given kingdom.
Shuffle the cannibal cards and place the pack face up on the table.
Leave room to place the kingdom cards․ The game starts with the smallest player.
You can draw a kingdom card, place or move a dwarf.
The first player places the first kingdom card on the table, then the cards drawn are now considered part of your kingdom.
You can move any of your dwarves to an adjacent card. But you can't go through walls, you have to on that card be free space to move there.
You can draw any number of cannibal cards during the action.
The work of the dwarves
In this section you check the board and complete all the kingdom card tasks, for which you need to have the right amount of dwarves.
The key to a successful game is building the right strategy. At the same time, you must reduce or weaken the enemy's lands.
You need to put gems in the mines to trade. If someone is blocking you, the only way to get rid of them is to put cannibals to work to do all the dirty work.
Monsters are a threat. The dragons shut down all mines in the kingdom and the ice giants cancel extra blocking actions. In order to complete the trade objective, you must make a purchase from the store.
At the end of the game, the player with the most points wins. You earn points for․
For completed objectives, defeated monsters, gems and kingdom.