A prepper strategy board game · 1 to 6 players
AMERICAN
COLLAPSE
Lead your family through a collapsing United States. Six regions, a hundred real crises, five ways to survive.
“Civilization is only three meals away from chaos.”
Attributed
The grid is down, the shelves are bare, and the country has come apart into six hostile regions. Every round hands you a real preparedness crisis and three minutes to decide. Trade, ally, scavenge, or betray. The choices are yours. So are the consequences.
A nation in six pieces
A 24 by 36 inch board of the fractured United States. Thirty resource nodes, twelve safe havens, and fault lines running through every region. No region has everything it needs, so the map is a trade route and a battlefield at once.
Pacific Wasteland
Seismic cracks, wildfire burns
Mountain Stronghold
Fortified peaks, avalanche chutes
Desert Confederation
Dust-bowl swirls, heat shimmer
Heartland Territories
Abandoned farmland, tornado scars
Gulf Disaster Zone
Flood lines, hurricane wreckage
Eastern Seaboard
Dense ruins, radiation
Five ways to survive
Win it your way, or don’t win at all
Survival
Keep your whole family alive through all three years.
Restoration
Rebuild the nation and drag DEFCON back from the brink.
Community
Ally across every region and win together.
Dominance
Seize and hold the resource nodes.
Escape
Bank your wealth and buy passage out.
One round. Six phases. Three minutes to decide.
Everyone plans at once, behind a screen. Then a crisis lands and the timer flips. Twelve rounds carry you across three brutal years, and the whole time the DEFCON track is sliding toward collapse.
Dawn
Assign your family in secret.
Scenario
Draw a crisis. Three minutes on the clock.
Actions
Scavenge, guard, work, trade, fight.
Crisis
The nation lurches. DEFCON shifts.
Consumption
Feed and water everyone, or lose them.
Night
Raiders come. Alliances form. The season turns.
A hundred crises. All of them real.
Boil-water advisories. Grid-down winters. Requisition convoys at the door. Every scenario is drawn from actual preparedness thinking, then tuned into a tense decision with dice attached.
In the box
Built for the table and the bugout bag
346 cards: scenarios, events, skills, equipment, missions
200 wooden resource cubes in six colors
Seven custom dice and a three-minute timer
Six leader meeples and thirty family members
A 24 by 36 inch six-fold board
Solo, cooperative Family Mode, and a hidden-traitor variant
Be ready before it drops
American Collapse is in playtesting now. Join the list for launch news, print-and-play drops, and playtest invites. An online version is on the way at americancollapsegame.com.