A Way Back Home

A Way Back Home is a push-your-luck bag-building game for two to four players.
The night sky over the desert of Zura has gone dark, and every player lights
the constellations on their own board with crystals drawn from a bag.

On your turn, draw three crystals and place one or two of them — a colour on
its own path, a wild on any — or take every crystal of one colour from the
shared pool back into your bag. Whatever you don't place goes to the pool,
where everyone else can take it.

Every path starts at zero. Every route is a risk, and you need to reap the rewards. Empty your bag and you may call the end: everyone else gets one more turn, and you get none. Calling it is the whole game.

TWO BOARDS
• Side A — six constellations under the night sky
• Side B — the lands of Zura by day, with six characters, each of them
rewriting the take action until they reach the building they are looking for

OPPONENTS THAT ACTUALLY PLAY
Three levels. Easy plays by the rules and for points, without foresight.
Normal and Expert are neural networks trained by self-play reinforcement
learning — one pair per board side — and Expert thinks ahead with a search on
top. Everything runs on your device.

PLAY WITH PEOPLE
Open a table and share the code. Two, three or four seats, and every chair
nobody takes is played by the AI, so you never wait for a fourth. Friends can
join from the app or straight from a browser at deckades.net.

OFFLINE WHENEVER YOU LIKE
No account and no ads. Solo play never touches the network: the rules, the
AI and the artwork are all on your device. Only online tables go out to the
internet, and only once you open one.

ALSO INSIDE
• Playable in English, German, and Portuguese
• The full rulebook, built in, path by path and character by character
• A layout made for tablets and phones

A Way Back Home was designed by Morten Blaabjerg, Johannes Følsgaard and Lars
Wagner Hansen, illustrated by Andrea Alemanno and published by Agie Games.
This digital edition is by Deckades.