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Kalypso

NewIntermediateTile placementSolo
1–445–60mHall 3 · 3R400

Mechanisms

  • Chaining
  • Closed Drafting
  • Contracts
  • Cooperative Game
  • Enclosure
  • End Game Bonuses
  • Events
  • Grid Coverage
  • Layering
  • Pattern Building
  • Simultaneous Action Selection
  • Solo / Solitaire Game
  • Square Grid
  • Tile Placement
  • Variable Set-up
Release
10/2026
Publisher
Inside Up Games
Designers
Gilles Turbide
Languages
English
Age
14+
Illustrators
Amelia Sales

Kalypso is a tile-laying survival game where players build floating settlements in a world swallowed by the sea. With Earth’s surface lost beneath rising waters, survivors must salvage what they can to endure storms, overcome scarcity, and adapt to a shifting oceanic landscape.

Each round, players draft tiles and expand their settlement, managing resources, placing structures, and guiding survivors across platforms of rusted metal and driftwood. Strategic placement unlocks new opportunities, while weather events and shared objectives push players to cooperate, or compete, for precious supplies.

Play solo, cooperatively, or competitively. With modular objectives, and escalating difficulty, Kalypso offers a new challenge each time you set sail.