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Duat box

Duat

NewBeginner

Mechanisms

  • Grid Movement
  • Slide / Push
Release
08/2025
Publisher
Unphazed Games
Designers
Caleb Carvalho
Languages
English, French, German
Age
8+
Illustrators
Kade Khan

Duat is an abstract strategy game for 2 players made entirely of stone. Outmaneuver your opponent in an ancient duel to guide the sun out of the underworld.

✦ A checkmate puzzle with every move.

✦ Three actions per turn, so use them wisely.

✦ First to push an opponent's piece off the board wins!

2 Players 5–10 Minutes Ages 14+

Many Ancient Egyptians believed that the sun was reborn each morning and descended each night into the underworld known as the Duat. While traveling through the Duat, the diminished sun was endangered by forces of darkness. It was guided by a host of gods including a scarab-faced deity named Khepri, god of dawn and the renewal of life. Duat represents Khepri’s never-ending journey through the space between life and death to ensure that the sun will always rise.