



That is something each player will need to use their deduction skills to figure out by looking at which cards their opponents play and how they manipulate the track. Depending on which of the six leaders are randomly drawn, players’ goals may be completely opposite or align. Throughout the game, they draw and play hero cards in the tableau in front of them to influence the red and green tracks and make them align with one of their factions’ win conditions. It is a fantasy world that is quick to laugh at its own tropes and does not take itself seriously at all.Įach player is a leader secretly aligned with two out of the four factions. That is the story of Hidden Leaders, and as Game of Thrones-like it may sound at first, the tone of the game set by Satoshi Matsuura’s artwork is completely the opposite. It is up to one of the six children of the emperor to bring peace back to the empire. The four factions that make up his lands are warring with each other.
