← All games

2022

Bliss

1–5 players · 90 min · 14+

A worker placement and engine building-game about living a good life, with fully customizable personalities (more than 100,000 possible combinations).

This card-based worker placement game starts with you creating your own unique personality. Your personality consists of:

 Nature: A long-term ability you have for the entire game
 Nurture: A change to your character's starting stats
 Habit: A special ability you can use once per round
 Goals: A list of tasks that give you victory points each round if you achieve them

Each of these cards is double-sided, so after being dealt four of them randomly, you choose which sides of each card to use in order to mix and match them to create your own unique personality. For example, with one set of four cards you could be:

 An ignorant wealthy narcissist who has a habit of taking mental health days 
 A wise, but heavily in debt, narcoleptic who enjoys working with close friends
 Or any combination of the above

Once the game begins, players simultaneously choose actions using time as a resource, carefully selecting which opportunities will benefit them the most. Using these opportunities, players will influence their wealth, future opportunities, or emotional state, to build an engine that will result in the most Bliss by the end of the game.

—description from the designer

Rules and strategy

Source knowledge for this edition still needs preparation or review.

Prepare rules knowledge

Source rules are needed before we can answer reliably.

Sign in to submit a rulebook

Ask about Bliss

Answers show their sources. When the evidence is missing or unclear, we’ll say so.