Train Novices in Monasterium, Discover Early Orléans, and Remember Our Trip with dlp games

In the early Middle Ages, the peak of ecclesiastical power, no fewer than five monasteries were founded in a beautiful valley with the aim of spreading the Word of God.

As the dean of a cathedral school, you try to accommodate the novices entrusted to you in the monasteries, thus building up an unmistakable reputation. According to your talents, you send novices to monastery buildings, to the chapel, or to the cloister. The intercession of influential personalities or other monks should not be underestimated. You can also fulfill the special missions of the monasteries and build on the stained-glass windows of your cathedral to enhance the fame of your school.


After the three-year novitiate, it will become clear who has been able to earn the most fame and glory with their helpers.

Monasterium (which is Latin for "Monastery") is a strategic game with an innovative dice mechanism that presents the players with ever new challenges. The game includes a double-sided game board: one side for the game for two and one side for 3-4 players.

In the third story, "The Settlers", you go back to the beginnings of the settlement around Orléans. The hard-working farmers gradually expand their settlements with the help of old acquaintances such as craftsmen, monks, and scholars, and they have to face only minor skirmishes, which affect their otherwise quiet life a little. A story for all those who love the quiet construction without big disturbances from outside.


The fourth story, "England vs. France", differs quite a bit from the previous one: The age-old feud between these two countries serves as a basis for the clashes between the teams. Exactly four players are involved, two of them playing for France, the other two for England.

But who is who? This secret is revealed only in the course of the game, and often the surprise is big because one had bet on another competitor. Now it is time to quickly complete the common task and hope that the secret messages will also contribute to the victory in order to triumph in the end.

Remember Our Trip is a board game in which players recreate a map of a city they visited together. After returning to your own country, you and the other players have gotten together to try to recall the map of either Kyoto or Singapore (depending on the game board you choose). You need to piece together the scenery of the map using fragments of your memories, with you earning bonus points if your memory matches that of the main board and other players.


In the game, each player has an individual image board, while everyone shares a common map board. Each of the twelve rounds of the game starts with the revelation of a "memory card", which shows one of six patterns that players can build on their image board with image tokens that they draft. Over multiple rounds, you'll compile image tokens next to one another, and if you have the right tokens in the right shape, you suddenly "remember" the building that matches the shape and image, placing that building on the shared common map and scoring points for it. You can additionally score points for completing buildings with image tokens that match buildings remembered by others, i.e., that they placed on the common board earlier. You've now remembered that building, too!

Each player also has objective cards and photo memory cards, and you can score points for satisfying them. If you can't fit all of your image fragments into play, you lose points for scattered thoughts. For more difficult play, you can use the 7x6 area on the Kyoto or Singapore game board instead of the regular 7x7 area.