Samusara 2021

Japanese Buddhists believe that death is followed by rebirth, a cycle they call Samusara: other Buddhists call it Samsara. This game is dedicated to that belief.

The board was inspired by polar graph paper. The rules are a bit similar to the classic game checkers.

Any opposing piece that you capture you can reincarnate as one of your pieces. In a turn, you can either: 1) move one of your pieces one space; 2) move one piecesin a series of jumps of your and/or opponents' pieces, capturing opposing pieces as you go, or 3) resurrect any number of captured opponents pieces as your forces.

The goal in Samusara is to occupy the opponent’s power cells or the hilltop cells. You can also win by making ten capture moves.

The original publisher, Nestorgames, discontinued Samusara during tbe pandemic, among many other products (95% of his catalog, as a matter of fact), making the game out of print. Any interested puyblishers should contact me.