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User manual
A strategy game of exaltation.
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Copyright © 2026 HEXALT
A game by Alexandre D. Roberge and Kate Chapeskie
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or sold in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except for printing a copy for your own play at home.
You can also find rules at hexalt.ca
You can also become a play tester. Send your feedback to alex@hexalt.ca.
© 2026 HEXALT. All rights reserved.
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Hi
We’d like to invite you to play our brand-new game, which we’ve been working on for several months.
You get to try it before anyone else.
A game lasts about 15–30 minutes.
You can give us your feedback in person or via email: alex@hexalt.ca
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Thanks!
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Autumn 1984.
The nuclear winter buried what was left of our world.
Our crew has found refuge on the ocean. But the cold piercing the ship's hull no longer lets us live there.
Only five crew members remain. But we know we are not alone.
Other crews are closing in from afar and will try to destroy the terrain, push us into the water and steal our resources.
It is not too late, but we must act now.
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The look of your exalted marble depends on the one you choose.
Every action costs 1 move, with two exceptions: playing your exalted marble costs 3 uranium marbles instead of a move, and jumping from a reactor costs as many moves as there are spaces between the reactor and the space you land on.
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Take control of the territory by building terrain and pushing other players. Place your reactor on top of a solid base, and start generating and collecting uranium. Use your uranium to summon your exalted marble, which is an unstoppable force.
Be the last player with a marble in play.
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Your inventory holds your five player marbles, your protection dome, and underneath, your exalted marble.
Each player places their boat on an ocean corner.
Boat placement depends on the number of players
The winner is the last player
who still has at least one
player marble in play.
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If all your player marbles are eliminated, you lose the game.
Each player adds a player marble to their boat.
The youngest player starts, then the turn passes to the left.
On your turn, roll your dice and use the highest die as your number of actions. If you roll doubles, you get an extra turn.
5 actions
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You must always have at least one player marble in play. To start, add a marble onto your boat.
You may have as many player marbles in play at once as you want.
You can now move your boat on the water by as many spaces as your highest die shows.
After it lands, the exalted marble returns to your inventory. Adding it to the board again costs another 3 uranium.
Before your turn starts, you may place your protection dome on one of your player marbles in play. You cannot move that player marble during your turn, but it is safe.
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If it lands on a player marble, that marble is removed from the game.
If it lands on a boat, the boat capsizes and must be refloated before it can be used.
If the exalted marble lands on a protection dome, the dome is shattered along with the marble under it and the terrain.
You must build terrain right from the start of the game to move. You cannot live on your boat. If you end your turn on your boat, you lose your marble.
Place terrain on the spaces around you.
Keep an ocean border around the board so boats can sail.
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You can build several levels high, as long as all 6 surrounding spaces already have terrain.
Never trap a boat. It must always have a water path to the edge of the board.
Each turn, you can smash terrain with your boat.
If it is on a reactor that generates uranium, it collects that uranium automatically.
When you start your turn with an exalted marble on a reactor, you can launch from it to crush a player, a boat or a protection dome. The jump can be no longer than your highest die.
If the exalted marble lands on terrain, the terrain is removed.
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As soon as you have 3 uranium marbles in your inventory, you can spend them to add your exalted marble onto your boat.
Your exalted marble is special: it cannot be pushed, and it can end its turn on a reactor.
If you move your exalted marble onto a reactor, your turn ends immediately. You must launch from it on your next turn.
If a reactor is left with no terrain under it, it is removed from the game and must be placed again.
Build your reactor as early as you can; it lets you generate the three uranium you need to play your exalted marble.
You may place your reactor only on a stack of two tiles that is fully surrounded by six other terrain tiles.
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If one of your dice shows a 1, add a new uranium marble on your stable reactor.
A reactor without a stable base gets none. A reactor holds only one, and rolling two 1s still adds just one.
The exalted catapults itself from a cooling tower and crashes down on enemies, destroys the terrain and shatters their domes.
Its rage is short-lived and intense, it kills instantly any marble it lands on, but on impact, its three uranium cores burn out.
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Walk to a reactor to collect uranium.
It is added to your inventory.
Careful: just like with boats, you cannot end your turn on a reactor.
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Each player marble you control can push one other marble per turn, in the direction you are moving.
Note: A marble pushed onto a reactor does not overheat.
If several marbles are lined up one behind the other, the effect chains through all of them.
If you have several marbles in play, they can chain their pushes on the same opponent's marble.