Everybody plans in secret. Then it all happens at once.

You get a robot, an arena, and a handful of moves. Plan up to five of them, move, turn, shoot, and lock them in. So does everyone else, and nobody sees anyone else's plan.

Then all the plans run at the same time, and the round plays out in a few seconds.

You are not playing the arena, you are playing the people in it

There are no reactions and nothing to dodge, because by the time anything happens your decisions are already made. The only way to land a hit is to work out where someone will be when your shot arrives.

Which means the good players are not the quick ones. They are the ones who guessed right.

The arena shrinks until somebody wins

The space closes in as the game goes on, so hiding in a corner stops being an option and everyone is pushed together. You have three lives. A bad read costs one of them.

Who it's for

Up to ten players, and it is built for exactly that. A small team on a Thursday evening, a games night, a group who like the slow kind of competitive rather than the loud kind.

This is the quiet one in the library. Nobody shouts, and a round can pass in near silence before everything happens at once.

It is not a crowd game

Ten is the ceiling and that is the design, not a limitation waiting to be lifted. For a room of fifty or five hundred, almost anything else here will serve you better.