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Aeon's End: War Eternal

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2017 · 1-4 players · 60min · weight 2.93 · 6,676 ratings

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BGG raw

ID
218417
Name
Aeon's End: War Eternal
Year
2017
Rank
251
Min players
1
Max players
4
Playing time
60
Min playtime
60
Max playtime
60
Avg weight
2.9302
Num weights
172
Bayes avg
7.4635
Average
8.22709
Users rated
6676
Num owned
14853
Wanting
199
Wishing
1449
Num comments
1116
Fetched at
Sat Apr 25 2026 16:15:40 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (6)
Cooperative GameDeck, Bag, and Pool BuildingHand ManagementOpen DraftingVariable Phase OrderVariable Player Powers
Categories (4)
Card GameFantasyFightingScience Fiction
Description (799 chars)

Gravehold remains the last bastion of The World That Was. As the otherworldly incursions from the creatures known only as The Nameless intensify, a cadre of strange survivors emerge from the void itself. Will they be Gravehold's salvation or its undoing? War Eternal is a standalone game compatible with the cooperative deck-building game Aeon's End. Players struggle to defend Gravehold from The Nameless and their hordes using unique abilities, powerful spells, and an all-new cast of dynamic characters. Featuring a number of innovative mechanisms, including a variable turn order system that simulates the chaos of an attack and deck management rules that require careful planning, War Eternal can be played alone or combined with other Aeon's End content for a game experience like no other.

LLM v2 (wide)

Core verb
cast spell from breach
Decision shape
combinatorial
Reward schedule
engine_compounding
Aesthetics
["Challenge", "Fellowship", "Fantasy"]
Core loop pitch
Prep spells in breaches, draft gems/relics, never shuffle—your discard order IS your next hand.
Translation difficulty
Easy
Difficulty reason
Co-op deck-builder with deterministic shuffle works great solo on touch; Handelabra has already proven the port.
Direct digital port
Aeon's End (Steam/iOS/Android, Handelabra)
Port kind
first_party
Closest loop translation
Slay the Spire
Primitive tags
["no_shuffle_discard_order", "breach_charging_timing", "variable_turn_order_chaos", "co_op_boss_pressure", "spell_prep_delay"]
Confidence
0.8
Extracted at
Mon Apr 27 2026 11:40:03 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Raw v2 JSON (924 chars)
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  "game_id": 218417,
  "name": "Aeon's End: War Eternal",
  "core_verb": "cast spell from breach",
  "decision_shape": "combinatorial",
  "reward_schedule": "engine_compounding",
  "aesthetics": [
    "Challenge",
    "Fellowship",
    "Fantasy"
  ],
  "core_loop_pitch": "Prep spells in breaches, draft gems/relics, never shuffle—your discard order IS your next hand.",
  "mobile_translation_difficulty": "Easy",
  "translation_difficulty_reason": "Co-op deck-builder with deterministic shuffle works great solo on touch; Handelabra has already proven the port.",
  "direct_digital_port": "Aeon's End (Steam/iOS/Android, Handelabra)",
  "direct_digital_port_kind": "first_party",
  "closest_loop_translation": "Slay the Spire",
  "primitive_tags": [
    "no_shuffle_discard_order",
    "breach_charging_timing",
    "variable_turn_order_chaos",
    "co_op_boss_pressure",
    "spell_prep_delay"
  ],
  "confidence": 0.8
}

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).