27th Passenger: A Hunt on Rails, the new boardgame by Purple Games, is now officially on Kickstarter!

27th Passenger: A Hunt On Rails is a unique deduction game for 3 to 6 players that plays in 30-45 minutes. It was designed by Christos Giannakoulas and Manolis Zachariadis (a.k.a. Goblins on Board) and features the beautiful art of Manolis Frangidis.

Setting of the Game

1920s, New York City: A secret contest takes place on the train route from bustling Manhattan to quiet Staten Island. A group of assassins has gathered to play a deadly game. You are one of them, disguised as someone beyond suspicion, and you ride the rusty rails with one and only one purpose: To be the last one standing.

In 27th Passenger: A Hunt On Rails you’ll gather information to identify your opponents, use your scheming techniques to convince innocent passengers to stay or get off the train, keep a low profile when you see someone on your tail, and draw your weapon to take out a suspected opponent! But be careful — kill an innocent passenger and it’s the bottom of the Hudson River for you.

Will you make it to the last station?

THE KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN

The Kickstarter Campaign will run from July 16th to August 13th. Explore the Early-Bird and exclusive pledge levels, get the chance to become one of the mysterious passengers, spread the word to unlock more game features and many more!

THE TEAM

Purple Games – Publisher
Founded in 2013 in Thessaloniki, Greece, Purple Games grew out of the love for board games shared by the two founders, Maria–Olga Raimondo and Evi Tsirogiannidou. Maria–Olga, a dice-rolling spell-casting astronaut always plays with blue. Evi, a wooden cube juggler and leader of meeples always plays with red. Hence purple, the combination of blue and red; the color of imagination, balance and mysterious candy.

Goblins on Board – Game Designers
Manolis Zachariadis and Christos Giannakoulas are a creative game design team from Thessaloniki, Greece. Also known as Goblins on Board, they have designed Purple Games’ first published boardgame, Intrigue City. When they are not digging holes to reach the center of the Earth and cut down that big annoying Tree, they love designing games and spend all their free time doing so. They hope that when they grow up they’ll be able to make up games full-time. 27th Passenger: A Hunt On Rails is a game inspired by the love Manolis and Christos share for Agatha Christie’s stories as well as the deduction games they played as children.

Manolis Frangidis – Illustrator
Illustrator of 27th Passenger: A Hunt On Rails (editor of the teaser above and cover artist of the previous Purple Games board game “Intrigue City”), Manolis Frangidis began his carrier as an aspirant Medicine student but after a twist of fate graduated with honors in 2007 from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Thessaloniki. In 2010 he got his postgraduate degree from the Faculty of Technology of the same university. He has organised and taken part in art and comics exhibitions, theatrical and film productions and comics publications both in Greece and abroad. He has been working as an art professor and illustrator since 2010. He is also a Ph.D. Candidate, a theme gamer, an avid reader, a total failure of an archer, a mediocre rune caster and a busy fellow in general!