Way more than in Quiet Year, you want your setting to get completely out of control. To put it another way, Quiet Year is a GMless game, but it's one where each player should periodically treat themselves as the GM and attack the setting.ДЇor example, if you're using Anomaly: Containment Breach to play Aliens, you want the marines to deploy sentry guns and find the exosuitВ just as much as you want the xenomorphs to send out hunters and pursue the survivors onto the Sulaco. If you're not familiar with The Quiet Year, get ready for for an experience where you all have to commit to creating dangers and hazards when it's your turn to talk, or else all the narrative tension just bleeds right out of the setting.В Quiet Year is a cool game, and an awesome design, but moreso than maybe any other game engine I've seen, it has nothing to keep the players from just declaring that everything goes smoothly and they win.

If you're familiar with The Quiet Year, that's the engine being used here, just with the slightly more flavorful/inaccessible tarot cards vs a standard english playing card deck. This is a phenomenal premise, but how you feel about the game specifically may have a lot to do with how you feel about its engine. It's The Thing, butВ you play as The Thing, in a deeply narrative-game experience shaped by tarot cards.

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