Clank! What a noisy word for a
game! Perhaps the dragon that lurks in the dungeon in this series of games
makes some big sounds. Also, there are cubes in this series called “clank” that
are involved with each player’s potential for a gradual or sudden demise in the
context of possibly losing the game.
In 2016, Dire Wolf published Clank:
A Deck-Building Adventure, which was its first game in this series. Since
then, there have been several additions, including stand-alone games and
expansions.
Clank: A Deck-Building
Adventure leads players into a dungeon where they collect treasures and
must bring back an artifact from its depths and travel back to the entrance of
the dungeon before the dragon captures them. Along the way, there are chances
to collect additional treasures and earn valuable points. All the games in this
series center around this basic storyline. Building an effective, efficient
deck of cards is key to being successful, as they direct all movement and
weaponry needed for the journey and bring advantages and rewards.
Expansions to this game were added
in 2017 with Clank!: Sunken Treasures, which added underwater
caverns, and in 2018 with Clank!: The Mummy’s Curse, which
brought an Egyptian pyramid to the dungeon along with a mummy to make things
even more interesting. Both expansions came with new boards and added cards and
components. In 2018, Clank! Expeditions: Gold and Silk
came out with two new adventures set in the Clank dungeon world. One includes a
mining company loaded with monsters and the other has a spider queen and many
webs as part of the challenges encountered belowground. A second Expedition was
issued in 2019 called Clank! Expeditions: Temple of the Ape Lords.
The first adventure is a quest through the jungle looking for the temple and
the second continues inside of the temple. In 2020, Clank!: Adventuring
Party was published, which enabled up to six players to experience
Clank! along with six new characters complete with identities and unique
advantages and powers. All these additions require the base game Clank: A
Deck-Building Adventure to play and integrate new cards, components,
and experiences while keeping the basic structure and mechanics of gameplay.
In 2022, Clank Catacombs
joined the Clank! party with an exciting new way to enjoy this deck-building
dungeon adventure. The biggest change in this edition is that players build the
dungeon as they travel. Starting on a beginning tile, each time you move to the
end of a path, you draw from a stack of square dungeon tiles and choose which
side to place in front of you. The first expansion to this edition, called Lairs
and Lost Chambers, was published in 2024 and offers some new dungeon tiles
with more challenges and rewards. In
2025, there was a new expansion added called Underworld, which
brings new challenges and levels of dungeon exploration. We should have stock
soon.
Keep looking for new adventures in
the world of Clank!
