Nemesis: Retaliation Strategy Board Game

About this product

Enter the nest. Complete the mission. Survive what follows.

Standalone • 1–5 Players • Ages 14+ • 90–120 Minutes • Semi-Cooperative • Solo & Co-op Modes

Lead an elite marine into an alien-infested Facility where tactical combat, limited resources and conflicting objectives turn every mission into a fight for survival.

Product Description

Nemesis: Retaliation takes the cinematic sci-fi horror of the Nemesis series into the heart of the alien threat. This time, you are not waiting for disaster to find you. You enter as a highly trained marine, equipped for combat and sent into a hostile Facility with strict orders to complete.

Explore a modular Facility room by room, never knowing exactly what waits beyond the next corridor. Noise can draw deadly Intruders closer, while fire, malfunctions, failing life-support systems and dwindling supplies can turn even a carefully planned route into a desperate struggle.

Combat plays a much bigger role as marines make use of specialised equipment, ranged weapons, burst fire, melee attacks and Tactical Gear. Ammo, oxygen, grenades and medpacks are valuable resources, and knowing when to fight, when to move and when to conserve what you have can be just as important as landing the perfect shot.

But the creatures are only part of the danger. In the standard semi-cooperative game, players face a shared Mission Task while also pursuing personal Objectives. Those goals may align beautifully... or put members of the squad on very different paths.

Survive the Facility, complete your objective and find a way out before time, the Intruders or your own squad bring the mission to an end.

Why You’ll Love It

• Standalone Nemesis experience: No previous Nemesis game is required to play.
• Cinematic action-horror: Exploration, combat and unexpected events create a different story every time you play.
• Modular Facility exploration: Room and Corridor tiles shape the Facility as your squad ventures deeper inside.
• Tactical combat: Shoot, unleash burst fire or fight at close range while managing weapons, ammunition and specialised gear.
• Constant resource pressure: Oxygen, ammo, medpacks and grenades all matter when survival starts slipping out of your hands.
• Uncertain loyalties: Shared mission pressure meets personal Objectives that may place squad members in conflict.
• Multiple ways to play: Enjoy the standard semi-cooperative experience, play solo, work together in fully cooperative mode or raise the danger with Deadly Mode.

Quick Details

• Publisher / Brand: Awaken Realms
• Designer: Adam Kwapiński
• Product Type: Standalone Strategy Board Game
• Players: 1–5
• Recommended Age: 14+
• Playing Time: Approximately 90–120 minutes
• Game Style: Semi-cooperative sci-fi action-horror
• Core Experience: Exploration, survival, tactical combat and individual objectives
• Game Modes: Semi-Cooperative, Solo, Fully Cooperative and Deadly Mode
• Setting: Alien-infested Facility
• Standalone: Yes
• Previous Nemesis Game Required: No

Good to Know

• Nemesis: Retaliation is the third standalone game in the Nemesis series and can be played without owning Nemesis or Nemesis: Lockdown.
• The standard game is semi-cooperative. Players receive personal Objectives, and those goals may not always align.
• Solo and fully cooperative play use dedicated Solo/Coop Objectives and modified victory conditions.
• Cooperative play also introduces a revive system through the Surgery Room.
• Deadly Mode increases the danger created by Noise and is available for both standard and Solo/Coop games.
• The Facility is built using modular Rooms and Corridors, helping create a different exploration puzzle from game to game.
• Escaping is not simply a matter of reaching the exit. The Lander, Escape Shuttle, Hibernatorium, life-support systems and other Facility systems can all affect the squad's chances of survival.
• Optional Nemesis: Retaliation expansions and add-ons are not required to play the core game.

• Rulebook: View the Nemesis: Retaliation Rules (PDF)

Components

• 6 Character models or standees
• 8 Drone models or standees in 4 poses
• 36 Adult Intruder models or standees in 6 poses
• 6 Larva models or standees
• 1 Queen model or standee
• 1 Robot model or standee
• 5 Character boards
• 6 Character tiles
• 3 Round Track border pieces
• 3 Section border pieces
• 23 Room tiles: 3 A, 3 B, 4 C and 13 ? Rooms
• 40 Corridor tiles: 10 each with values 1, 2, 3 and 4
• 5 Help cards
• 6 Character Draft cards
• 60 Action cards
• 27 Contamination cards
• 8 Mission Task cards
• 22 Objective cards: 7 Mission Objectives and 15 Private Objectives
• 12 Solo/Coop Objective cards
• 12 Exploration cards
• 20 Event cards
• 20 Intruder Attack cards
• 90 Item cards: 30 of each Item type
• 7 Character Item cards
• 24 Support Equipment cards
• 27 Serious Wound cards
• 6 Robot cards
• 12 Queen Health cards
• 1 Scanner
• 1 Intruder bag
• 5 numbered Backpack card holders
• 1 Room Help sheet
• 1 Objective Help sheet
• 1 Intruder Help sheet
• 6 coloured plastic rings
• 2 six-sided Burst dice
• 2 eight-sided Shoot dice
• 2 ten-sided Noise dice
• 9 Fire markers
• 14 Malfunction markers
• 30 Noise markers
• 30 Universal markers
• 20 Secure tokens
• 14 Door tokens with standee bases
• 80 Tactical Gear tokens: 20 Ammo, 20 Grenades, 20 Oxygen and 20 Medpack
• 40 Intruder tokens: 1 Blank, 9 Queen, 8 Drone, 16 Adult and 6 Larva
• 5 Egg tokens
• 5 Data tokens
• 5 Suffocating tokens
• 3 Life Support tokens
• 2 Anti-Aircraft tokens
• 1 Hibernatorium token
• 1 Undiscovered Hibernatorium tile
• 1 Autodestruction token
• 1 Lander token
• 1 Round marker
• 1 Starting Player token
• 5 Oxygen counters
• 5 sets of Oxygen counter pins