Z-Man Games has
announced the next game in the Oniverse series of games,
Aerion by designer
Shadi Torbey featuring art from
Élise Plessis. The Oniverse is most famous for its flagship game
Onirim (2010), the popular 1-2 player card game of pattern creation, door collection and inevitable reshuffling, as well as its successors
Sylvion (2015),
Castellion (2015) and
Nautilion (2016). Aerion continues the theme of 1-2 players trying to collect a series of goal cards, this time by building 6 airships by collecting the best blueprints, resources and crew. Resources are collected by rolling 6 dice, using specific combinations to create your materials. If your roll does not make a resource you need, you can discard cards to reroll - but like
Onirim, if you run out of cards in the resource decks, you lose the game. Again following on the success of
Onirim,
Aerion comes with 6 mini expansions changing the challenge slightly each time.
Aerion comes with 133 cards, 6 dice, 16 tokens, 1 scary wooden pawn (remniscent of Onirim), and the rulebook. For more information, you can read the
press release from Z-Man Games, and look for
Aerion at your FLGS in Spring 2019.