The moon has crashed to earth.
Tsukuyumi – Full Moon Down is a challenging, asymmetric area control strategy game for 2 to 4 players (2-6 with expansion) that avoids elements of luck and chance, thus challenging the tactical skills of the players.
It is set in a strong, post-apocalyptic setting whose storyworld has been and will be further elaborated by the comic “Tsukuyumi” and the novel “Jade Tear.”
180 min
Playing time
2 – 4
Players
14+
Age
2020
Release
4
Factions
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Nothing has remained as it was.
The world before the Moonfall
LANGUAGE VERSIONS
In addition to German, Tsukuyumi has been published in a number of other languages. Together with our partners we can offer you Tsukuyumi in the following language versions:
Chinese: Seven Seas Games
English: Grey Fox Games
French: Don’t Panic Games
Polish: What the Frog
Portuguese: Mosaico Jogos
The world after the Moonfall
Nothing is the same as before. A deep rift stretches from Asia to Europe and North America all the way to the Pacific. Where once the mighty ocean of the world swayed, the moon has dug its way deep into the now dusty ground. The rim of the crater is made up of a mountain range of land mass and earth crust thousands of metres high, which is only surmounted by the moon itself – with a diameter of around 3,000 kilometres, it extends far beyond the earth’s atmosphere. Tsukuyumi has still not gained his freedom, but his power is obvious.
The great centers of human civilization have been eradicated from the earth. Animals, plants and fertile soil were buried under the salty mud with which the huge tidal wave covered the land masses. Former islands, such as those of the Japanese archipelago, have been rising out of the barren ocean floor as fine rock needles ever since. The green belt of the equator was destroyed by the flood and enormous masses of ice push over the planet from the north and south poles.
The night has become dark. Humanity is almost extinguished. Scattered groups, rarely larger than 100 people, fight for bare survival and cling to even the smallest hope. Climate, landscape and living conditions, everything is increased to extremes. Nature has turned against man – and man must learn again what it means to become prey To be the prey of Tsukuyumi and his deadly henchmen, the Oni In the midst of chaos, Tsukuyumi rests waiting to be freed. He, who once produced life, is now creating an army of devastating creatures that are stronger and tougher than any other man on earth before.
Wherever Tsukuyumi’s pheromones meet life, they set a rapid evolution in motion. But his original plan doesn’t work out. While humans who come too close fall under his spell and become highly intelligent but destructive Oni, other creatures resist his influence. So now his own creatures turn against him and become his strongest opponents: among them are the insect swarms of the Dark Seed, the herds of pigs of the Boarlords, the beasts of the Children Of The Lion and the hulking land whales of the Lords Of The Lost Sea.
The former Pacific soil has degenerated into a battlefield. Whoever gains control over the moon seems to gain dominion over the new world at the same time. The final battle has begun, and the various factions – the last surviving humans, the evolutionary animal beings, and all the creatures in between – are determined to assert themselves as the dominant species, shake off Tsukuyumi’s influence, and finally make their own mark on the new era
The world has changed – and with it also the living beings who fight for their survival Whether human survivors, mutant animal races or human-machine hybrids, each faction wants to seize control in order to finally face their greatest enemy after the great battle: the white dragon TSUKUYUMI.
Which is your faction?
Click on the respective image for a short description of the faction.
Boarlords
These highly evolved descendants of wild boars shape the land according to their desires. They entrench themselves in defended positions and build tunnels to connect areas with each other. The Boarlords slowly but steadily build up impenetrable strongholds. Their tenacious units are able to capture more and more areas.
Found in: Base game
Boarlords
Children of the Lion
This African clan has trained enormous, mutated Beasts to gain supremacy with their help. With the abilities of these Beasts, the Children of the Lion are constantly changing their territory. The Beasts are controlled only by the Beastmasters, the very essence of the clan. Everyone hopes to one day become a Beastmaster or even a Dominator, but the loyalty of their troops is certain. Together they are strong.
Found in: After the Moonfall Expansion
Children of the Lion
Chronomasters
The Chronomasters are 12 time-travelling apes who return from the future to save the Earth from disaster. This faction is a game changer faction that will definitely turn the usual game concepts upside down. They are able to choose the order in which they play through the different phases of a round and with the Time Warp attack, they can teleport entire armies back to their homezone – as if they had never left.
Found in: Chronomasters Expansion
Chronomasters
Circle of the Sun
These people answer the call of Gospel Bearer. On their journey, they make large circles and sing the old songs. They receive great power from the formations they form with their Followers and can even turn Oni back into humans. Gospel Bearer herself is instantly reborn after each death and can also bring back fallen Followers. This eternal cycle puts considerable pressure on the Circle of the Sun’s enemies.
Found in: Sunrise Kingdom Expansion
Circle of the Sun
Cybersamurai
The Cybersamurai are a high-tech military force. Led by the articially intelligent being Amaterasu, they develop new technologies designed to foil the plans of their adversaries. They can, for instance, block lines of approach and shut down units using targeted orbital lasers. The Cybersamurai can counter any
plan.
Found in: Base game
Cybersamurai
Dark Crusade
When Marduk’s Order started their offensive against Tsukuyumi, the bravest knights were sent on the hardest mission: Kampfgruppe 01 was to land on the moon’s surface to finish the dragon once and for all.
But the mission was no success. They suffered heavy losses. Their battlesuits severely damaged, the knights of the Kampfgruppe 01 were imbued with Tsukuyumi’s power and became Oni. But their intense training and their faith were strong. With their new powers, they patched their battlesuits with organic mass and ascended from the inner core of the moon. Half Oni and half knight, ready to rain havoc on whoever steps in the way of their crusade.
Found in: Dark Crusade Expansion
Dark Crusade
Dark Seed
The board is teeming with this unstoppable swarm of insects. There is no escaping them. What their units lack in robustness, they make up for in numbers. When insects die, they always leave eggs behind and a new cohort of the swarm hatches out. Winning a battle against the Dark Seed never keeps them at bay for long.
Found in: Base game
Dark Seed
Fireborn
The mighty dragons have only one goal: annihilation! The Fireborn’s priority is not exactly conquering territories. Primarily they want to devastate areas so that nobody receives any more victory points through these areas. If they manage to devastate a homezone, the Fireborn receive victory points for it.
Found in: Fireborn Expansion
Fireborn
First Guardians
The tortoises of the First Guardians have long slumbered in the earth. They are keepers of life itself and are only sighted on the surface in times of greatest need. Burrow allows some Guardians to temporarily overwrite enemy territory markers. Reclaimers can awaken Jade Guardians from their sleep. These ancient creatures will most certainly turn the tide of battle.
Found in: Sunrise Kingdom Expansion
First Guardians
Kampfgruppe 03
An ancient order of dragon-slaying knights that ghts for the Earth’s survival. Kampfgruppe 03’s huge battle suits are often the last thing their enemies see before dying. No one can match Kampfgruppe 03 on the battleeld. Their only weakness is that there are so few of them.
Found in: After the Moonfall Expansion
Kampfgruppe 03
Lords of the Lost Sea
A herd of surviving humpback whales in search of the of the lost ocean. Their journey takes them across the dried up Pacic Ocean, right through the battles of the other factions. Mostly peaceful, they make their way and try to get rid of the invaders into their realm of silence.
With their incredibly high health and abilities, they are a passive-aggressive faction that can drive other players crazy and destroy their hard earned progress in seconds. Among other things, you are able to remove territory markers and play numerous events simultaneously.
Found in: Lords of the Lost Sea Expansion
Lords of the Lost Sea
Moon Circus
The clowns of the Moon Circus are on a quest to put on the world’s last great show, and they’re bringing plenty of mayhem with them. They stream onto the board from all directions and crash across the ocean floor in their souped-up carts, always striking right where their enemies least expect it. The Uberclowns have no regard for their own health, they pump themselves full of psychoactive drugs and throw themselves into the middle of the fray. They don’t care if they die, as long as they put on a great show.
Found in: Sunrise Kingdom Expansion
Moon Circus
Nomads
For the Nomads, high-speed guerrilla warfare is the strategy of choice. With their weapons they can wreak destruction on a large scale, and led by Lt. Dan, they can move faster across the board than any other faction. Their Stuff Sergeants lay mines to safeguard key positions.
Found in: Base game
Nomads
Reef Collective
The Reef Collective offers a completely new game experience. It doesn’t care about the tactical movement of units or the complicated selection of counterattacks. It just wants to spread out. The smaller Reefs steadily grow together to form a gigantic organism that can defend itself with venomous spikes or form insurmountable walls.
No matter how much the Reef Collective is pushed back, new Reefs can grow everywhere thanks to its spores.
Found in: Sunrise Kingdom Expansion
Reef Collective
Sentinels
Once there was a pact between humans and Sentinels: whenever the Oni appeared, the pandas would also return. Even though people feared the Sentinels as much as the Oni, the Sentinels never broke their vow. Today they no longer protect people, but life itself.
The Sentinels move in a flash across the board witht the help of their portals, hunt the Oni and can even cloak themselves.
Found in: Sentinels Expansion
Sentinels
Sisters of Seven
Highly specialized elite soldiers who dominate the battlefield thanks to heavy combat suits and superior tactics. The suits give their wearers enormous mobility and a variety of special combatcards show off each unit’s strengths perfectly. Attacking them is often a fruitless effort, when they displace enemies even before the attack happens.
Found in: Sunrise Kingdom Expansion
Sisters of Seven
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The Storyworld of Tsukuyumi
The world of Tsukuyumi has been more than just the setting for a board game since the beginning. The conflict over the white dragon, the world in the process of being rebuilt after the downfall, and a wide variety of factions provide plenty of depth and width to experience stories of almost any kind. Thus, Full Moon Down is just one of the many ways to immerse yourself in the world of Tsukuyumi.
The comic
The comic tells from the perspectives of the respective factions how the apocalypse came upon the world in the form of the moonfall.
The comic
The artbook
This artbook contains numerous illustrations, sketches and notes from the creation of the storyworld around Tsukuyumi.
The artbook
Jade Tear
In this novel, AI-created cybersamurai meet culture-driving wild boars and ancient orders of knights who have dedicated their lives to fighting dragons. Wandering land whales have long ceased to be an unusual sight for the soldiers of the former aircraft carrier USS Nomad, which lies in the parched Pacific Ocean. In this world, four different characters find each other and must defend themselves against the deadly oni of the white dragon and prevent his sinister plan.
The novel
After the Moonfall
The pen-and-paper role-playing game After the Moonfall highlights the world of Tsukuyumi from the perspective of cooperative storytelling. The game group embodies characters from the various factions who work together under the banner of the Sentinels to make the world a better place after the moonfall.
After the Moonfall focuses on the shared history of everyone involved and offers a wide range of different species and backgrounds right from the start. All characters are competent from the beginning and and can directly shape the world to their will through their decisions.
The role-playing game
Expansions
After the Moonfall Expansion (2020)
This expansion contains the factions: Kampfgruppe 03 and Children of the Lion. With this expansion, the game can also be played with 5 or 6 players. The included factions can also be used in 2-4 player games.
Kampfgruppe 03
The brave knights of Kampfgruppe 03 are in heavy armored combat suits and are each specialized in one task area. There is the heavily armored Beowulf, Erzengel, who can be upgraded by tactical missiles or Freischütz, who can choose his targets and cause damage in adjacent area. If all specialists can fully develop their strengths, there is no military force that can compete with Kampfgruppe 03.
Children of the Lion
This clan travels together with its beasts, gigantic animal creatures that can be trained to fight. In addition, they can add new areas to the existing board and thus change the area in their favor, be it to put obstacles in the way of their opponents or to place themselves easy-to-conquer areas.
Sentinels Expansion (2020)
The Sentinels are ancient pandaren warriors whose ultimate goal is to destroy all Oni. If they succeed, they immediately win the game, regardless of their victory points. They can place portals on the field to quickly move between them, and use cloaking tokens to escape from battles unscathed and get back to their main job of hunting the Oni.
Fireborn Expansion (2020)
Fireborn dragons are capable of permanently devastating enemy homelands for permanent victory points. By also devastating regular areas, they can reduce the total number of victory points for their opponents. You can always grow and get new skills and improved properties at higher levels.
Lords of the Lost Sea Expansion (2020)
Rise of the Moon Princess Expansion (2020)
The Moon Princess has awakened! In this cooperative and solo expansion for Tsukuyumi – Full Moon Down, the Moon Princess controls her own faction of Oni to take over the world! In this version of the game, the players’ goal is to work together (or solo) to fight the never-ending Oni attack, unleashed by Tsukuyumi’s daughter!
Leadership Cards Expansion (2020)
This expansion brings new, strong leaders for all factions into the game. After game setup, each player chooses one of the three possible leaders of their faction. Leaders bring special abilities that can be used to individualize your own play style.
Event Horizon Expansion (2019)
Event Horizon is aimed at experienced gaming groups. Included are unique starting advantages that add variety to the game setup and first turns. In addition, you will find new action cards in this expansion, which have a much stronger impact on the overall gameplay.
Sunrise Kingdom Special
Our friends at Brett and Pad have done a multi-part series on Tsukuyumi and Sunrise Kingdom. Packed with strategy tips and game reports from different perspectives, they give you the perfect overview of Sunrise Kingdom and the new factions.
Part 1: Teaser
Part 2: Sentinels & Circle of the Sun
Part 3: Reef Collective & First Guardians
Part 4: Sisters of Seven & Moon Circus
Part 5: Chronomasters & Dark Crusade
Part 6: Conclusion
Upcoming Expansions
Some of these expansions have already been released for the Tsukuyumi version with cardboard standees.
Sunrise Kingdom Expansion (2023)
Crowdfunding for the miniature version of Sunrise Kingdom is planned for late 2023.
Time has passed and the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, Tsukuyumi’s sister, intervenes to save her creation. She opens the portals of ancient times and sends the Guardians to assist the living beings of the world. Sunrise Kingdom is set in the southern hemisphere where Australia once was. Here you are further away from the moon, but peace does not reign here either. Surviving factions fight for resources, habitat and against the Oni onslaught. This expansion contains 5 new factions and
2 new modules, which can also be combined with the previous factions.
Sisters of Seven
These elite warriors are highly mobile thanks to their flying battle suits, have individual battle cards, and can bring valuable fertile grounds into play through their faction effect. Thanks to their defensive command, they can often displace attacking units before they can do any damage.
First Guardians
The goal of these ancient tortoises is to awaken the Jade Guardians that lie dormant in the earth. Jade Guardians are unique beings of great power, which have a great influence on the gameplay. Not only do they all have special effects when awakened, but they also automatically control the areas in which they stand, thanks to the new Burrow trait.
Circle of the Sun
These people are the chosen ones of the Sun Goddess, and move across the land in large groups. When their units are properly positioned, they form formations that can even help them turn Oni into their own units through Amaterasu’s light or generate instant victory points. They may seem harmless compared to other factions at the beginning, and exploit this advantage wherever possible.
Moon Circus
Die Zirkusclowns rasen in ihren aufgemotzten Karren über den Ozeanboden und werfen sich ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste in den Kampf. The circus clowns race across the ocean floor in their souped-up carts, throwing themselves into battle regardless. With no homezone, they can swoop down on the other factions from either side and conquer territories they thought were safe in the blink of an eye.
Reef Collective
A coral reef does not need units to exert its influence on the world, nor does it need combat actions or counterattacks. Instead, it spreads steadily, carrying its spores far across the board to settle in the backs of its enemies, take hold, and expand from there.
Chronomasters Expansion (2023)
Crowdfunding for the miniature version of the Chronomasters is planned for late 2023.
The Chronomasters are 12 time-traveling monkeys who return from the future to save the Earth from disaster. While the other factions have to laboriously conquer territory by territory, they already control large parts of the board at the beginning of the game thanks to their knowledge about the future. Not only does this allow them to play the game backwards, but they are also free to choose which phase to play and when. With their ability Time Warp they can send whole armies back in time, as if they had never left their homezone. Be surprised how the Chronomasters bring exciting new ideas to the game, while adding and changing the game in the usual Tsukuyumi manner.
Dark Crusade Expansion (2023)
Crowdfunding for the miniature version of the Dark Crusade is planned for late 2023.
When Mardukorden began its fight against Tsukuyumi, the boldest knights were given the hardest of tasks: Kampfgruppe 01 was to land on the moon and defeat the dragon once and for all.
But the mission was no success. They suffered heavy losses. After tough fights, their combat suits were damaged. The knights of Kampfgruppe 01 fell victim to Tsukuyumi’s power and became Oni. But their intense training and their faith were strong. They were able to resist the transformation and keep their own will. With their new powers, they patched their battlesuits with organic mass and ascended from the inner core of the moon. Half Oni and half knight, ready to rain havoc on whoever steps in the way of their crusade.
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