Return to Dark Tower

The base cooperative game supports 1–4 players, each controlling one hero; solo also uses one hero. A physical Tower and official companion app are required. Configure player count, difficulty and base-game goals. Each hero starts with 7 warriors and 1 spirit; put exactly 24 skulls in the shared supply.

Complete the main goal and then defeat the adversary within six months. Everyone wins or loses together. A kingdom without a hero claiming it as home is dormant; it is not assigned an imaginary additional hero.

At the start of a turn you may use your banner ability. Then interleave movement, one heroic action and one reinforcement as permitted, splitting movement if desired. End by dropping one skull into the Tower, resolving skulls and then app events.

Move through adjacent spaces up to your hero’s movement allowance. Spending 1 spirit to double movement must be declared before starting movement, with applicable modifiers counted before doubling; it cannot be bought after moving partway.

Choose cleanse, battle or quest as your one heroic action, gaining 2 spirit after completing it. Cleanse requires a building containing skulls at your location and returns all its skulls to the shared supply.

Battle a foe in your space using the app and the battle cards required by its level. Matching advantages improve cards. At most 10 advantages can be spent in one heroic action; unused advantages do not carry into a later action.

Quest actions follow the location and requirements shown by the app; dungeon rooms are also resolved there. Merely moving a physical hero onto a space does not automatically satisfy a quest: record completion as the app directs.

Once each turn, reinforce at your current building, choosing its free option or spending spirit for its enhanced option. Pay forced losses as fully as possible; inability to meet a complete forced loss causes corruption as instructed rather than cancelling the loss for free.

Place an emerging skull in the kingdom of the Tower exit it first passes through. That kingdom’s home hero chooses a building; the active player chooses in a dormant kingdom. A fourth skull destroys the building and removes it and all four skulls from the game. Its home hero, if any, gains corruption.

Glyphs facing your home kingdom add a 1-spirit cost to the matching action regardless of your hero’s current kingdom. The group loses if any hero gains a third corruption, a skull must be taken from an empty supply, or six months end without victory.