Welcome to Epona, an immersive, tableau-building card game in which you step into the boots of an ambitious equestrian entrepreneur in Central Europe in the 1920s, a time of relative peace and prosperity.
Now is the time to finally invest in your dream: to build the most prestigious and successful horse business in the land. But will Epona, the Roman and Gallic goddess of horses and fertility, bring you good fortune as you set out on this endeavor?
To build up your horse business by developing different stables in various locations. you have to acquire new sites to locate your stables in, hire the best staff, buy new equipment, construct arenas, jump obstacles and race tracks and, of course, acquire horses of different types to make your stables the best in the land.
These items are represented by cards which each player plays in front of themselves in a tableau. Which types of these you obtain and where you place these cards in your stables will determine how sucessful your overall business becomes.
Additional prestige can be gained by breeding your horses to produce the next generations of horses that will ensure your legacy.
The game is played over 6 rounds with the winner being the player who has the most victory points (depicted as horseshoes) at game end.
There are 2 variants for playing the game depending on your preferred playing style:
lower interaction variant / higher interaction variant.Every choice matters, and every card you add to your tableau brings you closer to greatness - or leaves you in the dust. Will your stables rise above the rest?
