Number of Players: 2 to 4

Ages: 10 and Up

Giant monsters from around the world have gathered to • 6 Objective Cards
determine which Kaiju will be declared supreme! Crush Bonuses that players
buildings for points through limited grid movement. Earn can compete for
in-game bonuses and gain extra points for locations of during the game
crushed buildings, number of City Tiles claimed, and
specific patterns formed. When another monster is nearby,
fight! Use brains and brawn to claw your way to victory!
• 13 Special Ability Cards
One-time enhancements
OBJECTIVE players can use to power
up their monsters
Score the most points by destroying buildings, meeting
bonus objectives, and winning monster battles. The game • 38 City Tiles
ends when no players can make a move, and the player with
Each building is
the most points wins.
worth 1 to 5 points
and belongs to 1 of 4

COMPONENTS Groups: Commercial,

Community, Power,
• 4 Monster Figures Transportation. There
and plastic stands are also 2 Wild tiles
and 4 Parks.

• 80 Territory Markers
Used to show which
spaces a player controls
• 4 Monster Tiles and for fighting battles

• 20 Combat Victory Tokens

Awarded for winning
Monster battles and range
from 1 to 3 points
• 5 Movement Cards
The different
movement options • 4 Reference Cards
available to players

• Rulebook
SETUP 5. Determine which Objective Cards to use. The double-
sided Objective Cards are separated into A, B, C, and D.
1. Each player chooses a Kaiju Monster Figure, tile, and For younger or newer players, you may wish to play with just the
Territory Markers. A and B cards before including the C and D cards.
2. Construct a City with the right City Tiles for • Draw the A card, B card, 1 randomly chosen C card,
the number of players. (Some City Tiles are and 1 randomly chosen D card.
marked for use in 3– and 4–player games only.)
Shuffle the Monster Tiles • Randomly determine a side to be faceup for each
and City Tiles together and Objective Card and place them where all players can
lay them out in a grid based see them. (See pp. 6–7 for details on Objective Cards.)
on the number of players. This 6. Shuffle the Special Ability Cards and deal 2 to each
gives each Monster a random player. Each player chooses 1 Special Ability to keep in
starting position on the board. front of them. (See p. 6 for details on Special Abilities.)
If playing with the D Objective card Powerhouse, keep
all the unused Special Abilities facedown in a pile available
as a deck.
7. Mix the Combat Victory Tokens facedown in a pile
near the board.
8. Give each player a Reference Card.
Determine starting player. Collect 1 Territory Marker
3. Replace your Monster Tile on the board with one of from each player, mix them up, and randomly draw 1. That
your Territory Markers, crater side up. Then, place your player is the starting player. Return all Territory Markers to
Monster Figure on your marker and your Monster Tile their owners.
faceup in front of you.
4. Shuffle and deal
the Movement
Cards. If playing
a 2-player game,
remove Charge and
Stomp. If playing
a 3-player game,
remove Charge. In
a 4-player game, all
Movement Cards
are used.
Deal the remaining
Movement Cards out
faceup and place the
last card where all
players can reach it.
This will be the Shared
Movement Card.
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 PLAY DETAILS
The Monsters
Play At-A-Glance Draximus: This two-headed beast
1. Move demonstrates high-intelligence
On your turn, move by using either and appeared after a recent toxic
• the Shared Movement Card OR waste spill. After drawing Territory
• your own Movement Card (swapping it Markers but before the 1st round of a
with the Shared Movement Card) battle, Draximus can discard as many
to send your Kaiju to either markers as he wishes and then draw
• an unclaimed City Tile OR back up one time.
• a Territory Marker occupied by another Monster. Galithor: This ancient creature is
very aggressive and emerged from
2. Collect City Tile and/or Battle inside a dormant volcano. Galithor
• Landing on a City Tile crushes that building. wins on ties of Firebreath or Spikes.
■■ Collect that tile and replace it with your Territory
Marker. Mecha Kaizer: This robotic creature
■■ If you land adjacent to another player, you may battle. is highly adaptable and contructed
(See pp. 4–5.) of unknown materials. Mecha Kaizer
draws 6 Territory Markers at the start of
• Landing on a Territory Marker occupied by another player
a Battle but will still fight only 5 rounds.
causes a battle. The winner claims that space. (See pp. 5–6.)
The game ends when all players cannot move and have passed. Steganox: This extremely powerful
dinosaur-insect hybrid is of possible
Total all points from destroyed City Tiles, completed Objectives, alien origins, appearing after a recent
and battle victories. The winner is the player with the most points. UFO sighting. Steganox wins on ties of
Claw, Kick, or Tail.

Move
On your turn, you will always have 2 movement options: the Shared
Movement Card or your own Movement Card.
• If you use your own Movement Card, you must exchange it with the
Shared Movement Card so that your Movement Card becomes the new
Shared Movement Card.
• If you use the Shared Movement Card, leave it in play as the shared card.
Your movement must end with your Monster Figure on either
• an unclaimed City Tile
OR
• a Territory Marker that is currently occupied by the opponent who
owns that space, beginning a Battle. (See Moving into Battle,
pp. 4–5.)
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If you land on a Park, you must immediately make a
second movement. Collect City Tile
• You cannot end your movement on a Park tile. City Tiles come in 4 different Groups, Commercial ( ),
• You can use either Movement Card available to you Community ( ), Power ( ), and Transportation ( ),
on your second movement. with point values ranging from 1 to 5. There are also 2
• Park tiles are not claimed, so they are always on the Wild tiles ( ) that can be claimed as any 1 of the 4
board. (The Gigasmash Special Ability breaks this rule.) Groups.

Note that you • If you land on a City Tile, you crush that building and
• MUST move on your turn if you are able. claim that tile. Remove it from the board and place it
faceup in front of you. (Note: Keeping your tiles arranged by
• must be able to complete the entire movement to use the Group will make scoring at the end easier.)
Movement Card.
• If you claim a Wild tile, you must immediately declare
• can move through other which Group it will count as. A Wild tile can be your
Monsters with no effect. first tile of a Group.
• cannot move off the edge of the • Replace the City Tile you claimed with the top Territory
board. Marker from your stack, crater side up. You can look at
• cannot move to a space that has the underside to see what Battle icon is there, but you
an unoccupied Territory Marker, cannot change which marker is played.
even if it is one of your own. • Place your Monster Token on top of your Territory
• must move BEFORE starting a Marker.
Battle.
• must Pass if you cannot move to a valid space, but you Moving into Battle
can try to move again on your next turn. There are 2 ways to fight your opponents: Adjacent Battles
• may choose to Pass if the only valid movement option is to and Territory Battles, each of which produces different
move to an occupied Territory Marker and start a Battle. results.
Note: Special Abilities and Objective Cards will break these rules!
Adjacent Battle If you end your movement on a City Tile

Movement Cards
that is adjacent to an opponent, you can choose to have a
battle after you claim that City Tile and swap it with your
• Each Movement Card shows the movement it allows, top Territory Marker.
starting from your current space. • If you are adjacent to more than 1 opponent, you choose
which one to battle.
• Movement ends on the tile indicated by the arrow and
circle. • The winner of this battle will get 1 Combat Victory
Token.
• Movement bypasses all spaces in between, even if those
spaces have already been claimed. • Adjacent Battles are always optional when it is your turn.

Stomp – Move 1 space in a straight line.

Dash – Move 2 spaces in a straight line.
Charge – Move 3 spaces in a straight line.
Trample – Move 1 space diagonally.
Leap – Move 2 spaces in a straight line and then
1 space left or right (like a Knight in Chess).
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Territory Battle If you end your movement on another Each player then chooses another marker from their hand
player’s Territory Marker while their Monster Token is still to play and the battle continues until all 5 rounds are
present, you must attack that player. complete OR one player has won 3 rounds.
• The winner of this battle will take
The player who won the most rounds wins that battle. If
control of that board space, leaving
both players win an equal number of rounds, the battle is
their Territory Marker behind,
won by the defender.
AND get 1 Combat Victory Token.
• Battles for Territory are NOT • The winner receives 1 Combat Victory Token and
optional. Two players on the same secretly looks at the points. Players keep their tokens
space must fight. facedown so their values are hidden until final scoring.
• Turn all Territory Markers used in the battle so they are
BATTLE crater side up and place them on the bottom of their stacks.

Battles are fought

after completing
Adjacent Battles
your movement Adjacent Battles only result in the winner drawing a
and they make use Combat Victory Token.
of the back of your
Territory Markers.
Territory Battles
Each Territory Battles for Territory earn the winner a Combat Victory
Marker has 1 of 5 Token, but they can also change the board.
different icons on the • If the attacker wins the
back that are used to battle, they replace the
resolve battles. Each defender’s Territory Marker
battle will be the best with the top Territory
of 5 rounds. Marker from their own
stack, crater side up, in the
When a Battle is declared, each player draws the top 5 space they just fought for.
cards from their stack of Territory Markers and looks at the • The attacker does NOT get the City Tile that was
bottom of them like a hand of cards, keeping them hidden previously taken by the defender. Once a player has
from their opponent. claimed a City Tile, it is permanently theirs.
(Mecha Kaizer draws 6 Territory Markers but will still fight only • The defender puts their removed Territory Marker
5 rounds.) crater side up on the bottom of their stack.
Each player chooses 1 Territory Marker to play and holds it • If the defender wins the battle, they keep their Territory
facedown in front of them to show they are ready to fight. Marker where it is.
When both players are ready, they flip over their markers • Both players remain on the tile they just battled over.
simultaneously and compare icons.
(After drawing markers but before the 1st round of a battle, the
• If you win that round, set aside your Territory Marker
Draximus player can choose to discard as many Territory Markers
with its combat side faceup. If you lose, set aside your
as they wish to the bottom of their stack and then draw back up to
marker with its crater side faceup. This makes it easy to
a full hand. This can only be done once, before the battle.)
track wins and losses.
• Ties for rounds are treated as a loss for both players. After moving, collecting your City Tile, and/or resolving
(Galithor wins on ties of Firebreath or Spikes, and Steganox any battles, your turn ends and the next player clockwise
wins on ties of Claw, Kick, or Tail.) starts their turn.
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 • Super Agility lets you reduce your movement by 1 on
Multiple Battles on the Same Space any of the straight movements. This does mean you
More than one player can fight for the same space, but could reduce a Stomp movement to 0 spaces, essentially
each player can only fight each Monster for a space one skipping your movement phase but still playing a
time. For example: Movement Card.
1. Draximus crushes the Water Tower, replacing it with

Objective Cards
his Territory Marker.
2. On his turn, Steganox moves to that space and fights
Draximus but loses the battle, meaning Draximus keeps These cards provide optional challenges that are worth
his Territory Marker in place. points if you can complete them and are divided into A, B,
3. On Galithor’s turn, he moves to that space and fights C, and D Objectives.
Draximus (who is the current owner of that space),
winning the battle and replacing Draximus’ Territory A Objectives are based on where your Territory Markers
Marker with his own. are located on the board at the end of the game.
4. Draximus has already fought Galithor (the new current
owner) for that space, so on his turn he must move to • Concentrated Score 1 point for each space in your largest
a new space. He can only fight for the contested space connected area of Territory Markers. (Diagonal markers
again if his movement allows him to return to that are unconnected.)
space and it is owned by Mecha Kaizer, who Draximus
has not fought for that space.

Special Abilities
Each Special Ability gives you a unique power that lets you
flex your Monster muscles!
• Special Abilities are usable 1 time only. Once you have
used your Ability, discard the card.
• You may use your Special Ability any time on your turn.
(The exception is Quantum Evasion, which is played as a
reaction to another player attacking you on their turn.)
• Special Abilities that affect “adjacent spaces” include • Spread Score 1 point for each distinct area of
both orthogonal AND diagonal spaces. unconnected Territory Markers. (Again, diagonal markers
are unconnected.)
Some Special Ability Clarifications
• Geo-Leap allows you to move off
one side of the board and continue
your movement after reappearing on
the opposite side of the board. Keep
your movement aligned as if the
edges of the board were connected.
Very much like a retro video game
about giant space rocks . . .
• Spatial Manipulation lets you swap two faceup adjacent
City Tiles. This can be done before or after your
movement phase and CAN include Park tiles.
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B Objectives are based on the number of City Tiles of a D Objectives do not provide end-game bonuses. Instead
single Group you have claimed at the end of the game. these cards are claimed by the player who has the most tiles
When scoring this card, you will resolve the objective for of a Group and provide a bonus on the owner’s turn.
each Group one at a time, so it is possible for a player to • These cards are taken away as soon as another player
score this card multiple times. If players tie, they each score claims more tiles of that Group.
2 points.
• If the owner is tied with the same number of tiles as
• Hoarder The player with the highest number of tiles in a another player, they do NOT receive the bonus.
Group ( ) gains 2 points. • IMPORTANT! When the last tile of a Group is claimed
• Avoider The player with the lowest number of tiles in a and removed from the board, the D card that was
Group, including 0, gains 2 points. connected to that group is immediately removed from the
game and its bonus is no longer in effect.
C Objectives are based on arranging your Territory
Markers on the board to form specific shapes at the end of • Civil Servant The player with the most tiles in the
the game. Each City Tile can be scored more than once, so Community ( ) Group takes this card and their
overlapping shapes CAN be scored. Territory Markers can be used as Parks by ALL players.

• Square 3 points for • Commerce King The player with the most tiles in the
having 4 Territory Commercial ( ) Group takes this card and, at the start
Markers arranged in of their turn, draws 1 Combat Victory Token.
a square.
• Movement Mimic The player with the most tiles in the
• Line 3 points for Transportation ( ) Group takes this card and when
having 4 Territory moving can choose to use their Movement Card, the
Markers arranged Shared Movement Card, OR the Movement Card of the
in a line. The line player to their left. If you use the Movement Card of
can be vertical or the player to your left, do NOT swap that card with the
horizontal. Shared Movement Card.

• Ortho 3 points for • Powerhouse The player with the most tiles in the Power
having 4 Territory ( ) Group takes this card and can draw the top Special
Markers arranged Ability Card from the deck after using the one they have.
orthogonally from a
center space. • You can still use only 1 Special Ability on your turn.
• If you get control of the Powerhouse card and you
• Diagonal 3 points do not currently have a Special Ability, draw the top
for having 4 Special Ability Card and keep it.
Territory Markers

ENDING THE GAME

arranged diagonally
from a center space.
Note: Ortho and Diagonal are scored as long as you have all The game ends when all
the Territory Markers that match the required spaces. Having players have passed on their
Territory Markers in the spaces that are not required does NOT movement in a single round.
count against these cards.
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SCORING • Deal Movement Cards as usual, but you will not use Special
Abilities or Objective Cards.
Players total up all their points: • Each player takes 5 Combat Victory Tokens and keeps them
• Each City Tile claimed is worth the number of points facedown. The point value of those tokens doesn’t matter,
printed on it. they are only used as health points for this variant.
• A Park removed by a Special Ability scores no points. On Your Turn: Move as normal to battle another Monster.
• NO City Tiles are claimed except for those of the
• Wild cards must be assigned to a Group when claimed.
Power Group. When you claim a Power Group tile,
• Wild cards are only scored once. replace it with your Territory Marker and gain health
• Each Objective Card completed is worth its indicated points (Combat Victory Tokens) equal to the point value
number of points. of that tile, NOT to exceed 5.
• Each Combat Victory Token is worth 1, 2, or 3 points. • You may land on a City Tile occupied by an opponent
and Battle, but no Territory Cards are placed there.
The player with the most points is the winner. If there is a
tie, the tying players draw 5 of their Territory Markers at Battle: The loser of each round must discard a health point
random and resolve a final Battle! and after 5 rounds, the winner of the battle gains 1 health
point (not to exceed 5).
Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4 Game End: When a player discards their last health point,
they are defeated and out of the game. The last Monster
City Tile Points standing wins!

CREDITS
Objective A Points
Objective B Points
Objective C Points
Game Design: Tim Armstrong and Justin De Witt
Additional Development: Anne-Marie De Witt and
Objective D Points Sam Simons
Combat Points Graphic Design and Layout: Justin De Witt and
Sam Simons
TOTAL Illustration: John Ariosa and Roland MacDonald
Editing: Anne-Marie De Witt
Players have permission to make copies of this Scoring Sheet to record scores and
determine a winner. Playtesters

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card for a 3-player game, and 2 cards for a 2-player game. This Stephanie Hagadorn, Kane, Leonard Lyons, Dan Manfredini, Brian
will provide extra challenges in movement. Maples, Mikayla McMurtray, Dr. Missy Frei, Alonzo Persinger, Canille
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Setup: Lay out a 6x6 grid of City Tiles, including all 8 Power publisher. Please retain this information for future reference.
Group tiles, the 2 Wild tiles, and other random tiles as needed.
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Monsters will start in the corners.