How to Play Lockup: Breakout

Objective of the Game

In Lockup: Breakout, players are trying to earn the most reputation stars over six rounds. You'll do this by sending your seeker to explore the catacombs beneath the prison and dedicating your crew to influence the legendary inhabitants of Kulbak. You'll also craft items, recruit goons, and explore the catacombs, all while trying to avoid the suspicion of the guards. The player with the most reputation stars at the end of six rounds wins!

Preparation (Setup)

First, shuffle the new goals, goons, items, traits, and tomes into their respective decks. After completing the setup for the core game, follow these steps for the Breakout expansion:

1. Catacombs Board: Set the catacombs board below the game board.
2. Lantern Markers: Each player places the lantern marker of their chosen color on the ENTRANCE space of the catacombs board.
3. Loot Tokens: Shuffle the loot tokens, then place them in face-down stacks on the loot icons on the catacombs board. Each stack must have a number of loot tokens equal to the player count. Return any remaining loot tokens to the game box without revealing them.
4. Tunnel Markers: Find the set of tunnel markers indicated for the current player count. Return all unused tunnel markers to the game box.
   • For 2 players: 5 Collapsed Tunnels, 1 Single Tunnel, 1 Double Tunnel.
   • For 3 players: 4 Collapsed Tunnels, 2 Single Tunnels, 1 Double Tunnel.
   • For 4+ players: 3 Collapsed Tunnels, 3 Single Tunnels, 1 Double Tunnel.
   Shuffle the tunnel markers, then place them face down on locations 1–7 on the game board, with one tunnel marker per location. Reveal the tunnel markers, then return all collapsed tunnels to the game box.
5. Legend Deck: Shuffle the deck of legend cards. Place it, face down, in the labeled space next to the catacombs board. Reveal the top card of the deck, then place it face up on top of the deck.
6. Seeker Tokens: Each player takes the seeker token in their chosen color and adds it to their holding cell with their other crew tokens.

Solitary Mode - Setup

Shuffle the new guard and location cards into their respective decks. Create the guard deck as in the core game, which will now include eight blue guard cards and six guard cards of the color indicated by your chosen difficulty level. Find the lantern marker of the color that represents the guards and place it on the ENTRANCE space of the catacombs board.

Fluxo do Jogo

The game follows the rules for the core game, with the following changes and additions:

I. Roll Call Phase

Each player now has a seventh crew token: their seeker. Seekers are assigned like any other crew tokens, count as having a strength of one, and are eligible to receive rewards at their assigned location.

• Players may only assign six of their seven crew tokens to locations on the game board. They must keep one crew token in their holding cell.
• When a player has only one crew token left in their holding cell, they must pass. When they pass, they immediately assign their last crew token to the active legend card, face down.
• Crew tokens assigned to the active legend card do not count against the number of crew tokens that each player is allowed to assign face down (i.e., two with 3–5 players, three with 2 players).
• Players may not assign crew tokens to the legend card otherwise.

Solitary Mode - Roll Call Phase

At the start of this phase, draw an eighth guard card from the guard deck and place it, face down, on the revealed legend card.

II. Lights Out Phase

Resolve the locations as in the core game. After resolving all locations on the game board, resolve the active legend card.

Resolving Tunnel Locations

If a location has a tunnel marker on it, determine crew strengths and collect rewards as in the core game. Then, before the crew tokens are returned to their holding cells or moved to the LIBRARY, follow these steps:

1. Determine how many seekers are at the location.
   • If there is only one seeker at the location, that player may advance their lantern marker in the catacombs.
   • If there are multiple seekers at the location, compare those players to see who has the most strength at the location. That player may advance their lantern marker in the catacombs.
   • Ties for crew strength are broken by seating order, as in the core game, starting with whoever has the first player marker and continuing in clockwise order.
2. Determine which type of tunnel marker is at the location.
   • If the location has a single tunnel, the player may advance their lantern marker up to one space in the catacombs.
   • If the location has a double tunnel, the player may advance their lantern marker up to two spaces in the catacombs.
3. Players who did not receive a reward from the location move their crew tokens to the LIBRARY, while players who received a reward return their crew tokens to their holding cell.

Note: Advancing in the catacombs via a tunnel location counts as a reward! Any player who does so cannot send their crew tokens from that tunnel location to the LIBRARY as stragglers. However, a player may always choose to decline this reward, like any other reward.

Solitary Mode - Resolving Tunnel Locations

For the guards to advance in the catacombs, they only need to have the most strength at a tunnel location; they do not need to have their seeker at the location. The guards only advance one space, regardless of whether the location has a single tunnel or double tunnel. When the guards have to choose between two paths in the catacombs, they always choose the path with a cost if they can afford to spend the required resources. If they cannot, they take the other path. When the guards reach a space with a loot icon in the catacombs, they take the top loot token from the stack and resolve its effect. They never choose the reputation star instead. The player advances in the catacombs as in the multiplayer game, either by being the only one at the location with a seeker present, or by having the highest strength if both the player and the guards have a seeker present.

Advancing in the Catacombs

When a player advances in the catacombs, by assigning their seeker to a tunnel location or by various other game effects, they move their lantern marker to track their progress. Observe the following rules:

• The player must move their lantern marker forward from its current space to the next connected space, following the path. If there are multiple paths, the player may choose which path to take.
• Some paths have costs that must be paid, indicated by resource icons. If the player cannot (or chooses not to) spend the indicated resources, then they cannot take that path.
• Movement must always follow the arrows printed on the paths. Lantern markers cannot be moved backward to previous spaces.
• When a player reaches a space with a loot icon, they look at all loot tokens there, then choose one to keep and return the others face down. They must immediately use the loot token for its effect or score one reputation star instead.

Note: Players should still keep their loot tokens after using or scoring them, because Fungoid goons score based on loot tokens.

Khathandor's Tomb

When a player reaches the TOMB space, they gain one loot token from the stack on that space as normal. However, they cannot advance any farther in the catacombs. During final scoring, they will score 15 reputation stars for the ending position of their lantern marker.

Prison Breakout

Once a player reaches the ESCAPED space, they immediately score 17 reputation stars + 3 reputation stars for each round left in the game (e.g., 23 reputation stars if it is the fourth round).

Note: Even though a player cannot advance in the catacombs once they have reached the TOMB space or ESCAPED space, they can still assign their seeker as normal to gain location rewards and even block their opponents from being able to advance in the catacombs.

Resolving the Legend Card

Resolve the active legend card after all other locations have been resolved. To resolve the legend card, follow these steps:

• Reveal all crew tokens assigned to the legend card and determine crew strengths. Ties for crew strength are broken by seating order, as in the core game, starting with whoever has the first player marker and continuing in clockwise order.
• Resolve the legend card effect, which might provide rewards or penalties to different players, based on the relative strengths of their crews.
• Tome cards cannot be played while the legend card is being resolved, unless their text specifies otherwise.
• After the legend card has been resolved, each player returns their final crew token to their holding cell.

Solitary Mode - Resolving the Legend Card

When the guards receive a reward from the effect of a legend card, they gain two reputation stars instead. When the guards receive a penalty with a choice from the effect of a legend card, the player chooses for them.

III. Patrol Phase

During this phase, move the active legend card to the bottom of the deck. Reveal the top card of the deck, then place it face up on top of the deck.

Solitary Mode - Patrol Phase

There are no changes to this phase.

Ações e Como Jogar

New Special Effect Icons

• Advance Lantern: The player may advance their lantern marker one space in the catacombs, paying the cost of the chosen path if required and gaining a loot token if applicable.
• Improve Item: When a player crafts an item card with this icon, they may spend one additional resource of the indicated type to score additional reputation stars. Item cards can only be improved once, and only immediately when crafted. Item cards gained any other way cannot be improved.
• Reserve Item: The player reserves an item card of their choice from the item display at no cost, placing it face down in their play area. As in the core game, reserved item cards can be crafted at the CELL BLOCK location.
• Remove Goon: When a goon card with this icon would advance to the next goon space during the Patrol Phase, it moves directly to the goon discard pile instead.
• Wild Valuable: This icon counts as a valuable of the owner’s choice during final scoring only. For all other gameplay purposes, it does not count as a valuable.

New Goon Types

• Dryads: At the end of the game, each Dryad is worth one reputation star per barrel icon the player has. This includes the barrel icon from their crew board.
• Fungoids: At the end of the game, each Fungoid is worth two reputation stars per loot token the player has. When a Fungoid would advance during the Patrol Phase, it moves directly to the goon discard pile instead. Each Fungoid is only available to recruit for a single round of the game.
• Golems: Each Golem counts as either a Dwarf or Ratman when scoring goons at the end of the game — but only if the owner has at least one goon of the chosen type. If they have no Dwarves or Ratmen, their Golems do not count. For all other gameplay purposes, Golems count as their own goon type.
• Shapeshifters: When a player recruits a Shapeshifter, they discard it immediately instead of gaining it. Then they draw three cards from the top of the goon deck, choose one to keep, and discard the others. If a Shapeshifter is recruited with the effect of another Shapeshifter, repeat the effect.

Fim de Jogo e Pontuação

Game End

As in the core game, the game ends after six rounds. Initiate one final raid as usual, then perform final scoring.

During final scoring, all players who did not reach the ESCAPED space in the catacombs score reputation stars as indicated by the ending position of their lantern marker.

• If a player reached the TOMB space, they score 15 reputation stars.
• If a player reached the ESCAPED space, they immediately scored 17 reputation stars + 3 reputation stars for each round left in the game at the time they escaped.

Goon Scoring

• Dryads: Each Dryad is worth one reputation star per barrel icon the player has (including the barrel icon from their crew board).
• Fungoids: Each Fungoid is worth two reputation stars per loot token the player has.
• Golems: Each Golem counts as either a Dwarf or Ratman when scoring goons, but only if the owner has at least one goon of the chosen type.

Solitary Mode - Game End

As in the core game, the game ends after six rounds. Initiate one final raid as usual, then perform final scoring. During final scoring, both the player and the guards score reputation stars for the final position of their lantern marker, if it did not reach the ESCAPED space during the six rounds of gameplay. If the guards have any Golem goons, score them in the way that is most advantageous for the guards.

Dicas para Vencer

• The "13" space on the Explorer (Goal) card is considered to be farther in the catacombs than the TOMB space. The "9" and "10" spaces are considered equally far in the catacombs.
• The Sacred Robes (Item) card counts as a valuable of the owner’s choice during final scoring only.
• In a two-player game, for the Tomb Raider (Goal), the player with the most items of the required type still scores six reputation stars, and the other player does not score. If both players are tied for the most, neither player scores any reputation stars.