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RUSE: 5th Player Expansion 2025

RUSE: Bunny Boom Promo Punch Board 2025

RUSE: FIREFOX Expansion 2025 RUSE: VILLAGE Expansion 2025 RUSE: ALTITUDE Expansion

About the Game

RUSE invites you on an adventure in a fox-themed mid-weight Euro-style strategy game.

In Ruse, players take the role of a fox mother trying to raise her pack of kits more efficiently than other players.

Over 4 rounds, players go through Destiny, Collection, and Action phases to ensure the growth and accelerate them developing their instincts in your den. The game design uses worker placement, territories exploration, resource management and dice management.

The player who accumulates the most victory points wins the game.

Filed Under

Categories: Animals Environmental Exploration
Mechanics: Action Drafting Dice Rolling Highest-Lowest Scoring Moving Multiple Units Resource to Move Solo / Solitaire Game Tile Placement Variable Player Powers Victory Points as a Resource Worker Placement with Dice Workers
BGG ratings: 105 · geek rating 5.54
BGG data: refreshed Sep 7, 2026

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