Overview

Welcome to The Scene, a single-player, rogue-like deck-builder where you create a “scene” to impress a “fandom.” Your goal is to celebrate and remix pop culture, progressing through a series of encounters by building a powerful deck of characters and navigating the challenges they present.

The Objective

The main goal in each encounter is to accumulate (Culture) to meet the fandom’s threshold, while managing your (Cheese) level to avoid bombing.

Core Concepts

• Hype: The primary resource used to play cards from your hand.
• Culture: The main scoring metric. You win an encounter by reaching the required Culture score.
• Cheese: A penalty resource representing tackiness or controversy. If you accumulate too much, you lose the encounter.
• Accolades: A currency earned by winning encounters, used in the shop to buy new cards and improve your deck.

Game Flow

A run in The Scene consists of a series of encounters against different Adversaries (fandoms).

1. Deck Building: You start by drafting cards from booster packs to create your initial deck. Between encounters, you’ll use Accolades to buy more cards and boosters in the shop.
2. Encounters: You’ll face a series of fandoms, each with its own Culture goal and Cheese limit.
3. Playing Cards: You’ll play cards representing people, characters, and groups onto a board of four lanes. Cards automatically move up the lanes each turn.
4. Scoring: When a card reaches the top of a lane, the next time it would move it scores, adding its Culture and Cheese to your totals for the encounter.
5. Winning and Losing: You win an encounter by reaching the Culture threshold. You lose if your Cheese exceeds the tolerated level, or if you run out of cards to play or draw.

This overview provides the basics. The following pages in the How to Play section will dive into the detailed mechanics of cards, obstacles, adversaries, and more.