A mad scientist named Dr Foo has built an unstable time machine, the Omniscience 2000, and is using it to hop between seven great Eras of history, spawning duplicates of himself and tearing open rifts in spacetime.
Those rifts are slowly shredding reality itself. If too many pile up on one Era, it turns into a Vortex, and if the universe accumulates too many Vortexes, everything is destroyed and the players lose together. Yes, the LOOP is a coop game! Standing in Dr Foo’s way is a ragtag squad of Time Agents, you and the other players, armed with a personal deck of quirky "Artifact”.
Each Agent's turn feels like a little adventure of its own. You hop from Era to Era, spending your Energy to move, then dip into you hand of cards to patch up rifts, take down Foo’s duplicates, or scrounge up more energy for later. With every turn that ticks by, Dr Foo grows bolder, spinning off more duplicates and hurling rifts into the timeline, forcing you and your team to stay one step ahead or watch the universe collapse.
Like in most coop games, there is one way to win and multiple ways to lose. Success means the team puts away four sabotaged pieces and therefore save spacetime, closing with a triumphant "K.U.D.O.S!" from headquarters and, well, some XP, but that’s a BGA exclusive... Failure means the Agency's wall of shame gains new names, and the universe quietly ceases to exist. NO PRESSURE… but… EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON YOU!
You’ll have a Designated Instructor accompanying you through the tutorial if you want to get acquainted with how to defeat Dr Foo and his terrible time machine. Otherwise, the first time portal is waiting for you.
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=theloop
Our gratitude goes to Maxime Rambourg and Théo Rivière, the game designers, and everyone at Catch Up Games for allowing agents to save the universe on BGA. And thanks to Oberstille for building a machine (the good kind, not Dr Foo's) that runs so smoothly on the platform.
This was your Monday release.
We recommend you listen to the Foo Fighters while playing, as it couldn’t be more on brand. Whatever music you choose, take care and play fair…
The LOOP：宇宙存亡，全掌握在你手中！
一位名叫福博士的瘋狂科學家製造了一台不穩定的時間機器——全知2000，並利用它在七個偉大的歷史時代之間穿梭，製造出自己的複製品，並在時空中撕開裂縫。
這些時空裂隙正在一步步撕裂現實本身。如果同一個時代堆積了太多的裂隙，就會演變成毀滅性的「漩渦」；而一旦宇宙累積了太多的漩渦，一切都將灰飛煙滅，所有玩家也將宣告共同敗北。沒錯，《The LOOP》是一款合作遊戲！阻擋在福博士面前的，是一群由你和其他玩家組成的時空探員雜牌軍，你們將配備各自專屬的無厘頭「神器」牌組來展開反擊。
每個探員的回合都像是一場獨立的小冒險。你穿梭於各個時代之間，消耗能量移動，然後從手牌中抽取卡牌來修補裂隙、擊敗福博士的複製體，或者蒐集更多能量以備後用。隨著回合的推進，福博士變得越來越大膽，不斷製造出更多複製體，並在時間線上製造裂隙，迫使你和你的團隊始終領先一步，否則宇宙將面臨崩塌。
和大多數合作遊戲一樣，只有一種獲勝方式，卻有多種失敗方式。成功意味著團隊成功修復四個被破壞的部件，從而拯救時空，總部會發出勝利的「讚！」的歡呼，當然，還會獲得一些經驗值，不過那是BGA獨有的……失敗則意味著機構的恥辱牆上會增添新的名字，宇宙也會悄然消亡。 別有壓力…但是…宇宙存亡全掌握在你手中！
如果你想了解如何擊敗福博士和他可怕的時間機器，會有一位專屬教官陪同你完成教學。否則，第一道時間傳送門已經為你開啟，隨時等你跨入。
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=theloop
我們向遊戲設計師Maxime Rambourg與Théo Rivière，以及Catch Up Games的每位夥伴致上最誠摯的謝意，感謝他們讓探員們能在BGA上拯救宇宙。同時也要感謝Oberstille打造出運作如此順暢的程式系統（當然是正義的那種，才不像福博士那樣！）
以上就是本週一發布的消息。
我們建議你邊玩邊聽Foo Fighters的歌，畢竟這跟遊戲主題簡直是絕配。無論你選擇什麼音樂，都請謹慎並公平競爭…
