A survival game for 1-8 players with five different modes of play: Suspicion (semi-cooperative)/Team/ Competitive/Cooperative/Solo Room 25 is an original game by Francois Rouze, inspired by science fiction and horror films (Cube, Tron, Running Man, Saw), and many reality shows. Illustrations and graphics are “Dear Candidates: Hello! by Daniel Balage and Camille Durand-Kriegel. You have been selected again by the Ministry of Entertainment to participate in the new season of our fabulous game! The base game is required to use the Season 2 You will be able to thwart new traps, meet expansion, which now allows up to 8 players. new cellmates, use our remote-controlled robots, reveal your special abilities, and » CONTENTS put some adrenaline in your game. However, you need to be quick but • 15 Room tiles • 8 Adrenaline tokens careful. The ‘real TV show’ will begin • 4 miniatures • 18 Character sheets shortly, and it’s broadcast worldwide. • 16 Action tokens • 2 Role tiles Your audience awaits...” • 58 MAC cards • 14 markers hanks to the wonders of both television and nano-surgery, the heroes of the first season all survived, and the produc- NEW ITEMS Ttion team has even provided them with special treatments Î The game has several new features: using steroids... All characters can now perform an additional • Adrenaline tokens (see page 2) action once per game, thanks to the effect of Adrenaline. • Robots (see page 2) Using a Cybercoach, they’ve also developed Special abilities: • M.A.C. cards / Move Alone Complex Alice has a layer of thermal camouflage to allow her to disap- (see page 2 and page 8) pear, avoiding any aggression. Jennifer has gained leadership, • New Cooperative and Solo modes (see page 3) foresight, and has learned persuasion. Max, the Colossus, has • Special abilities for characters (see page 4) increased his strength tenfold and can now bring someone (for • 10 new types of rooms (see page 6) better or worse) with him. Kevin (or “K” as he likes to be called) • 8 new small sheets containing a space to place the has hacked a remote control that allows him to take control of a robot or act on certain nearby rooms. The handsome Franck now Adrenaline token and remembering the Character’s Talent. recovers more quickly. Emmett, the scientist, has unlocked some Put this small sheet at the ENTRANCE & EXIT A C T EMPTY ROOM VISION MOVING CONTROL TUNNEL I KEY ROOM ROBOT ROOM REGENERATION SAFE No effect. CHAMBER CHAMBER CHAMBER CHAMBER Only used for Solo and Place a robot in this room when it is revealed. ROOM CENTRAL ROOM O Look secretly at any Exchange this room Slide any non-central Immediately move your Cooperation modes. All eliminated characters Room in which all the N When you enter the Robot room, room on the board, then and its occupants with line of the Complex one character to another of the secrets of the complex and can open and close access to return to play in the characters start the game. Once activated, it is perform the following actions: place it back where any hidden room on the rank in the direction visible Tunnel chamber destroyed. Now the Central room and can act Only the actions Look and • Place a robot here if there are none in the complex. it was. board. of your choice. of your choice (if any). 1 characters can leave the normally next turn. Move are allowed. bottom on the rightof your • Order any robot to Move or Push someone. Complex. Once this occurs, this room is destroyed. ROOM 25 some rooms. PIVOTING ROOM JAMMING ROOM M.A.C. ROOM MIRROR ROOM VORTEX ROOM PRISON CELL DARK CHAMBER COLD CHAMBER Exit room prisoners have Always direct the bridge at As long as a character Draw an M.A.C. card When you enter, you Take your character You can only leave the While you’re in this room, If you are in this room to reach and move out of A the last player who entered. is in the Jamming room, and apply its effect immediately lose your OBSTACLE figurine and place it on Prison Cell by moving you can’t use the Look when programming, the Complex before the C This room has only no information can immediately. Regardless Adrenaline token and any Character’s sheet and put the Central room. onto an occupied action. you can only program end of the countdown. T 2 exits. You can only be conveyed between of who the card normally remaining programmed adjacent room or to the one action. Also applies I Look, Move, Push, or players, regardless of targets, apply its effects actions. Central Room, if it is to a revealed guard. O use your special ability in their role. to your character instead. adjacent. those directions. N 2 Destroyed room: Replace the room by an empty room. Destruction does not affect characters or robots in the room. SPECIAL ABILITY RECOVER Inaccessible room: Place a “Do Not Cross” Reload his Adrenaline token on it. PARANOIA ROOM TIMER ROOM SHREDDER Shuffle your Action tokens Reduce the countdown ROOM ACID BATH FLOODED TRAPPED ROOM ILLUSION MORTAL token if it has been used. the New Room’s sheet on No character can enter this room. into a pile. Instead of by one turn, except As soon as a character As soon as two CHAMBER If your character is still CHAMBER CHAMBER programming your actions, during the last round. exits this room or a characters are in this Once revealed, it becomes in it at the end of your Immediately exchange When your character draw and play an action During the last round, the robot enters it, this room room, the one who inaccessible till the end of next action, he is the Illusion room with enters this room, he is from this pile. Adrenaline still Timer room eliminates becomes inaccessible entered earlier is game. If your character is eliminated. any hidden room on instantly eliminated. FRANCK functions as normal. If you the character who enters DANGER MORTAL and any characters still still in it at the end of your the board. Reveal the exit the room or deplete your it. In both cases, the eliminated by the arrival “YOU CAN STAND BY ME, Finally, two new individuals have joined the team for the new draw pile, you may program inside are eliminated. of the second one. next turn, he is eliminated. new room, place your room is then destroyed. normally. character in it and apply I’LL GIVE MY VERY BEST.“ its effects. season. Sarah, an adventurer, is an expert in electronic sabotage the left. and Bruce was recently released from an asylum or prison and seems to have a few screws loose. In addition to the items listed above, the game con- tains 4 “Do Not Cross” markers. When a Flooded It’s up to you to discover their talents through many games Chamber or Shredder Room (see page 6) becomes together, as a team or a free-for-all. inaccessible, place a marker on it. It remains for the rest of the game. Only the special ability of Emmett can help remove them (see page 4). 1 ADRENALINE M.A.C. CARDS (MOVE The Adrenaline token allows the character to take a ALONE COMPLEX) third action, once per game. During the programming phase, a player must decide whether or The M.A.C. cards generate immediate events not to use their Adrenaline token. If he wishes to do so, place the that affect the complex or the characters. token next to the placeholder on your character sheet. After the Action step, if at least one player has scheduled an These cards make the Cooperation and Solo Adrenaline action, one more round is played. In turn order, each modes much more difficult (see Page 3). player who scheduled an Adrenaline action carries out one of the They can also provide unexpected assistance four basic actions (Look, Move, Push, or Control) immediately. if you use one or two of the MAC rooms in They can even repeat an action already taken this turn or an your Complex (see page 6). action lost due to a penalty. M.A.C. cards have two levels of difficulty: Adrenaline does not allow players to use their Special Abilities. • Barrier cards are the most numerous. They include complex movement cards and Punishment cards. The Adrenaline token is then removed from the game. Franck’s • Madness cards are more varied and are reserved to “Madness special ability allows him to recover his discarded Adrenaline token. Level” Solo and Cooperative play. You can choose to include Mad- Details: ness cards in other modes of play if you want to increase the • Once programmed, it is no longer possible to recall an Adrenaline token. possible outcomes. • If a character is in the Cold Chamber, he cannot program his Adrenaline. M.A.C. cards are described on page 8. • The Adrenaline token is always activated after the action phase, even if a character has only taken one action during the turn. Note: Players can look through the M.A.C. card discards at any point during the game. ROBOTS user manual an inaccessible space (with the Do Not Robots appear when the Robot Rooms are A robot can only move or push. When a Cross token). activated (see page 6). There can be up to character enters the Robot Room or Kevin Details: two robots in the complex simultaneously uses his Special Ability, he chooses which If a robot enters a Shredder Room or Acid (one per Robot Room).