Siberian Dawn Union Bundle

Siberian Dawn is a solo, objective-based tactical card wargame with deckbuilding and crisis-management elements. You play as an Overseer in the Union, deploying a limited squad and managing resources to handle threats. Its strategic options call for careful decisions and time to learn, and four interactive tutorials introduce its mechanics.

The Union and the Dawn

The Union is an industrial state spanning what is known as Europe. As one of its tactical experts, you respond to trouble with a controlled squad, limited resources and possible support from the Guilds. The setting combines a gritty near-future military world with medieval and supernatural horror elements.

The story begins after weeks of growing hostility in Industrial Habit IH-54 in the Eastern Zones. Outcasts are rumoured to be stirring dissent and linked to a cult called the Dawn. Missions give you varied objectives and challenges as you investigate the unrest, uncover the truth about the Dawn and expose deeper secrets within the Union and Guilds. Missions can be played individually while also forming a narrative.

Missions and modes

After the tutorials, four Training Missions provide an initial test. The example mission First Run teaches the basics and leads through objectives toward killing four VBots. It features two Units: the Grunt, a basic Union military Unit that attacks the VBots, and the Scribe, a Guild support Unit that helps you gain Glory. Full Missions add 18 Units to these two. Missions in Mission Pack 1 and later packs have multiple objectives and offer longer, more challenging play.

The base game includes three full V Missions that tell a contained story, with the full Union and Guild card sets available. It also has two combat-focused Skirmish missions, where you must kill a set amount of enemy Rank within 30 Rounds. Skirmish 0 mixes together all the content you own. Mission Packs add three full story missions and one Skirmish mission each, with their content also added to Skirmish 0.

Version 5.0 adds a set of missions set before the Siberian Dawn story, a Skirmish mode that uses new base-game content, and the ARK section, which contains unlocks and reveals secrets. Version 6.0 adds Crisis mode, in which you progress through a series of Crisis Points. Their tasks affect your progress as you hunt the leader of hostile forces seeking to bring a Crisis to the Union. Two Crises are included: one for the base game and one for Chapter 1, which requires Mission Pack 1 and 2. The Investigator Union card provides help with Crisis mode.

Decks and tactics

The Lore Deck Building Engine combines deckbuilding with tactical wargame systems. You develop separate Resource and Tactics decks, balance multiple resources and use distinct Units and Tactics to handle mission objectives. The Hub System presents context-relevant controls through a central set of pods, while the Fate Helix resolves actions through a deck system that lets you control the risk of the results. The Bond System adds one of four Guild-specific contacts to a mission and is available with Mission Pack 1.

The ARK

Completing missions earns ARK Points, which you spend in the ARK, a meta section representing your memories as an Overseer. Use them to unlock memories and other elements that let you change your Siberian Dawn reality. More than 80 Content Pods contain data and lore for most of the game's cards, expanding what you know about the world and what those cards bring to it.

The ARK also offers two optional modifications. Echoes changes a basic event into one that boosts your Glory at the cost of ARK Points. Nemesis is a special enemy that can appear in a mission after you kill its related Boss in Skirmish mode; defeating it brings the reward of ARK Points.