We are proud and happy to introduce K2, a mountaineering game by Adam Kałuża published by Rebel.pl.

You control a team of 2 mountaineers trying to climb to the top of the famous K2 mountain. Each mountaineer brings you points depending on the highest position he manages to reach (ex: 10 points for the summit, 7 if you go above 8000 meters, ...). The issue is that this is a very dangerous hobby and you'll have to keep your mountaineer safe until the end of the game. If not, you'll loose all points gained by the dead mountaineer. Needless to say you'll have to manage the risk carefully.

While climbing, you'll have to pay attention to your mountaineer acclimatization value: If this value reaches zero, he dies. At each turn, this value may vary depending on the weather and your mountaineer location. Obviously, the higher you are, the bigger is your acclimatization penalty, so don't forget to quickly bring your mountaineer back when you think this is not possible to go higher.

The key of the game is the management of your cards. Each player gets the same deck of cards, you have 6 of them in hand at the beginning of your turn, and you must select 3 cards at each turn. Given that, you can of course use your best cards in a single turn, but then you'll have to keep your mountaineer safe in the following turns with the other cards.

K2 is quite simple, very challenging and very fun. There is a tension until the end of the game because even if you are the leading player you can still loose a mountaineer and all associated points. You should definitely try it!

K2 adaptation for Board Game Arena has been realized by Przemyslaw Sporysz using BGA Studio. A big thank you to Przemyslaw for the great work!

BGA would like to send a big thank you to Rebel.pl for this game and for their authorization to have this game here on BGA.