The Great Commission is a cooperative (or solo) strategy game where you take on the challenge of leading a church in the tumultuous Roman era. Manage a church full of diverse personalities, each contributing their own unique abilities and gifts, but also bringing their struggles with sin, conflict or even demonic opposition.
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FEATURES:
Cooperative multiplayer mode
Fully developed solo mode
Child-friendly modes
Tableau-Building
Resource Management
Engine Building
Multiuse cards
Simultaneous Turns
Variable Difficulty settings
The rich historical setting and spiritual themes interwoven with the gameplay lead to not only tactical decisions but sometimes philosophical ones. The aim is to share the gospel and assemble your church before your time runs out!
The game is set in the first-century Roman Empire and the bold contemporary artwork is drawn from the Acts of the Apostles: Word for Word Bible Comic.
The box includes 240 Cards:
15 Named Leaders
72 Characters
28 Blessings
48 Troubles
12 Locations
36 Events
21 Activities
4 Player Aids
4 Spirit Trackers
and a 12-page How to Play Guide
We recently completed a Kickstarter raising over $50,000
Buy Now Direct: You can purchase the game now, and it will be sent straight out. If you are in the USA, this is fulfilled directly from our US Distribution hub (not imported).
Endorsements and Reviews
We’ve got 8.7 combined score on BGG and not only that an 8/10 review with all Pros and no Cons from Dice Tower!
Get the Play Mat
If you’d like to get hold of the official neoprene mat to play the game on you can find it below.
One mat serves one player, and the game can have up to 4 players. So, you may wish to purchase 4 if you will not be playing solo.
We’ve set it up so you can use the Discount Code 4MATDEAL to save 30% on the additional 3 mats when you buy the first. So instead of £140, it’s £108.50 for 4.
How to Play Demo
Download the Rulebook and/or watch our How to Play video here:
Looking for the Full Rules Book?
The FAQ with card clarifications and common questions can be found below. It is a “living rulebook” and will be updated as we go. Once we believe we’ve captured all the big questions, we will create an extended rulebook with this included.
Questions?
If you have any questions that aren’t covered in the FAQ or want to leave a review for the game, head over to the Board Game Geek Page:
Overview of the Game
Each player starts the game with a location for their church (Rome, Jerusalem etc), a Leader (The Apostle Peter, Paul, James, Mary Mother of Jesus, etc) and six initial church members with which to begin sharing the Good News and "make disciples of all nations". This starting combinations will strongly influence different play styles as you navigate the strengths and weaknesses of your initial team and location. The game has a number of ways in which you can increase or decrease the difficulty for new or experienced players. For example, the location cards are double-sided, having a “Standard Mode” and a “Challenge Mode”.
Efficiently utilising the unique talents and abilities of your church's leader and team members can result in satisfying engine-building mechanics involving strategy, cooperation and careful resource management as you try to beat the clock!
Over time your church is very likely to accrue “Troubles” like persecution, internal struggles and spiritual attacks that must be dealt with by intercession with wisdom or faith. If this is not resolved effectively, it will harm and eventually kill the life of the church, losing the game.
Powerful "Event Cards" will "turn the world upside down" for better or worse, rocking your strategy, giving unexpected boons or putting temporary roadblocks in your way. However, the game-changing "Blessing Cards" can be utilised to call upon divine intervention or potent spiritual gifts like prophecy, exorcism or even resurrection into play!
Players are encouraged to communicate freely and may choose who does what and in what order. To win the game, churches must bring the Gospel to every person in the "World Deck" before the "Event Deck" is exhausted and you run out of time! You will also need to be extra diligent at identifying and dealing with various troubles in the church, causing you to lose the game.
Co-created by Paul Snuggs and Simon Amadeus Pillario.
Unboxing the Prototype
Watch the moment when we recieved the first full prototype in the post!