Mantis Falls is a sometimes-cooperative
game of hidden roles, trust-building,
strategy and betrayal for 2-3 players.
The game takes place on the film-noir roads of
mob-ruled Mantis Falls in the 1940s. As witnesses
hunted for their information, players work to
survive the night and escape town alive. Players
face dangerous events at every turn and respond
to them together, but in secret, using hand
management, cooperation and deception to
protect themselves, and each other, on a dark and
dangerous journey. Players must often trust and
rely on one another, as cooperation might be the
only way to survive. But this trust is fragile, as not
all players may be as they seem.
During every turn, players discuss tactics, defend
choices and bluff their way through carefully
guarded secrets. Witnesses and assassins alike
must walk the line between a willingness to help
their companion and a readiness to kill, reading
each other as much as the dangers of the road.
