NOAH: Not Officially Authorized Heroes
They were always here – not in our streets, but in our stories. We took them for fiction. After the Blackout, reality tore open at four places on Earth, and out of the Rifts pour the Horrors of the Dark. Everything official is seen by the Dark – which leaves only the ones who officially don't exist to solve that problem.
NOAH is a cooperative monster-battling adventure. Each of you takes on one of four asymmetrical factions and, turn by turn, recruits unique crew members for the next battle. A variable turn order and the creeping loss of reality require skillful planning. However, multifunctional cards open up clever options for you — even a pact with the Dark.
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NOAH – Starter Bundle (German)
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Das NOAH-System
Gameplay
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Missions & Enemies
Every game begins with a mission: 12 enemies, 4 locations, a one-of-a-kind adventure. Play a pre-made mission from the Enemy Box, build your own — or even combine enemies and locations from all the boxes in the series. NOAH knows no limits.
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Locations & Tactics
Each location has its own effect—sometimes to your advantage, sometimes against you, but always more explosive when combined with the enemy lurking there. Skillfully move your enemies across the locations to turn the tide in your favor.
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Variable turn order
It’s never clear whose turn it is: A deck of move cards is shuffled anew each round to determine the order — both your turns and your opponents’. Plan ahead, weigh your risks, and get ready, because the next move might come sooner than you’d like.
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Asymmetrical factions
Each of the four hero factions comes with its own deck of action cards and special abilities. Combine your strengths into a shared strategy and make your decisions with foresight, because there’s little room for experimentation.
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Resource Management
In the game, there’s only one currency that matters: energy. But there’s never enough to do everything. Recruit agents or mercenaries, or upgrade abilities for more powerful actions. Timing is key: Will you invest in firepower now, or sacrifice a weak move to be stronger later?
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Hand management
At the end of each turn, you build up your hand for the next turn without knowing when it will come. The cards you just played are no longer available to you. Only those who think far enough ahead and coordinate their plans with the team will have the right cards in their hand at the decisive moment.
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Multi-functional cards
Each action card has a basic action that you can enhance in two ways. Discard another card to trigger a stronger effect. Or sell your soul to the dark side: You’ll gain a powerful action, but you’ll gain a corruption point in return. Every card thus becomes a decision. And every decision comes at a price.
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And the clock is ticking...
The Reality Loss advances relentlessly and determines when a phase ends. Once it reaches the red end zone, the phase is over. If enemies are still causing trouble at that point, you’ll incur corruption points. Nasty enemy effects drive the Reality Loss forward unstoppably. So you’re not just fighting villains — you’re also racing against time.
Four factions
The Heroes
Four factions compete, and no two play alike. Each brings its own deck of action cards and unlocks its special abilities in a unique sequence. Only by working together do they unleash their full power: Only those who understand the other factions’ unique traits and cleverly coordinate them stand a chance against the threat.
Diversity
The Opponents
No two enemies fight the same way. The aliens share their health points through a hidden network, forcing you to tear them apart first. The zombies never go down completely and overwhelm you with a constant stream of reinforcements. Each enemy has its own rules, its own nasty tricks, and presents you with a completely new challenge every time. And if that’s not enough for you? Thanks to Mix & Match, you can simply throw them all together into one deck. For the ultimate thrill.
Mercenary
Reinforcement
Mercenaries are your wild cards: Recruited with energy, they deliver a one-time, particularly powerful effect exactly when you need it. The catch? That same energy is then unavailable for other purposes — for new agents, for your abilities. A mercenary at the right moment can turn the tide of a game. One at the wrong time costs you exactly the energy you’ll need later.
Replayability
Mix & Match
In our shop, you’ll find an constantly growing selection of enemy boxes, and each one plays completely differently. Every villain has their own way of terrorizing you, along with their own location cards featuring very special effects.
And if that’s not enough for you: Thanks to the “Mix & Match” system, you can combine all the monsters from the enemy boxes however you like. Aliens, clowns, and zombies in the same deck? Locations from three different boxes mixed together? Go right ahead.
The result: virtually endless gameplay variety, a custom difficulty level, and a guarantee that no playthrough will ever feel like the last one.