Don't Let It Die - One Box Bundle

1-4 Player - Co-op - Strategy - Save your tribe from extinction!

1–4 players
75 min
Strategy
Resource Management

Setting up the table…

Dustin's Designer Den

Room Features & Controls

Features

Private Hand

Press H to move selected cards to your private hand at the bottom. Only you can see your hand. Press F while hovering over a card in your hand to flip it and see the back. Press Space while hovering over a card in your hand to preview it. Drag cards from your hand to play them on the table with their current facing.

Automatic Containers

Drag cards onto cards to create decks. Drag tokens onto tokens to create stacks. Drag items into bags. Drag cards into deck zones for organized play areas. Token stacks support the same flip mechanic as decks — press F to flip a stack and reverse which end you draw from.

Zones

Zones are colored regions drawn on the table (host only). Click the zone icon in the toolbar then drag to draw one. Right-click a zone to edit, join, or trigger zone actions. Each zone can have a type:

  • • None – Standard region with no special behavior. Useful for visual organization.
  • • Hidden – Objects inside are invisible to players who haven't joined. Right-click the zone → Join Zone to see its contents.
  • • Hand – Objects dropped in go directly to the joined player's private hand.
  • • Random – Right-click the zone → Shuffle Zone to randomly scatter all objects inside.
  • • Flip – Automatically flips any card or token dropped into this zone.
  • • Layout – Objects dropped in are automatically arranged into a centered grid. Configure columns and spacing in the zone settings. Right-click → Re-layout Zone to manually re-trigger. When Re-layout when objects are removed is enabled, the grid closes gaps automatically whenever an object is taken out.

All zone types also support Auto-Flip on Drop — set in zone settings to force objects to face-up or face-down when dropped in.

Marker Tool

Click the marker pen icon in the toolbar to enter Marker Mode. While active, draw freehand strokes directly on components or on the table surface itself — visible to all players in real-time. Use the toolbar to pick color, size, and opacity. Press Undo to remove your last stroke. Use Clear Selected, Clear Table, or Clear All to erase marks. Right-click any component → Clear Marks to erase strokes from a single object. Press Esc to cancel an in-progress stroke or exit Marker Mode. Marker strokes saved to a component in the editor appear automatically on all matching table instances.

Real-Time Sync

See other players' cursors and selections in real-time. All actions sync instantly via WebSocket.

Voice Chat Pro

Click the mic button in the top toolbar to join peer-to-peer voice chat with everyone in the room. Audio goes directly between browsers — no server in the middle. Use the mute button in the top-left panel to toggle your mic. Each participant shows as a colored avatar bubble. No external app needed.

Action History

View the action log on the right to see what everyone is doing. Toggle visibility with the log icon.

Pro Tips

  • • Use Ctrl + Click to select multiple objects at once, then perform actions on all of them
  • • Drag on empty space to box select multiple objects at once. Hold Ctrl while dragging to add to your current selection
  • • Right-click any component → Component ▶ to open it in the editor, save its current state, or restore the latest saved state
  • • Double-click cards to quickly flip them, dice to roll them, or coins to flip them
  • • For custom dice, use 1-9 to jump to specific faces or Shift+Plus/Minus to cycle through them
  • • The table color picker lets you customize the table background to match your game theme
  • • Objects can be locked (press L) to prevent accidental movement - great for game boards
  • • Use deck zones to create organized areas for draw/discard piles
  • • Your hand persists even if you refresh the page (stored in browser)
  • • All actions produce sound effects - rolling dice, flipping coins, shuffling, and placing objects
  • • Animations sync in real-time - everyone sees dice rolls, coin flips, and shuffle animations together
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Don't Let It Die - One Box Bundle

Don't Let It Die - One Box Bundle

1-4 Player - Co-op - Strategy - Save your tribe from extinction!

Players

1–4

Playtime

75 min

Genre

Strategy

Ages

14++

Theme

Prehistoric

Mechanic

Resource Management

Highlights

✦ Deluxe Edition + Hindrance in ONE box!
✦ 22 Different Characters
✦ 4 Difficulties, 9 Challenges, 32+ Discoveries

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Click to Read the Rules!
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22 UNIQUE CHARACTERS With 22 characters in the One Box Bundle, that all have unique skills and specialties, you'll have over 7,315 combinations of mix-and-match strategies to plan out. Try experimenting with different characters to find your group's favorite play style!


COMPLETELY COOPERATIVE Designed from the ground up to offer a re-playable, interactive, strategic cooperative experience for 1-4 players. The key to victory lies in your group's ability to adapt to the ever-present and always changing threats of prehistoric life. Should you focus on hunting and foraging to feed your starving tribe? Or should you be more concerned with supplying the dwindling fire with more wood? Perhaps constructing a weapon or tool might ease the stress of gathering resources... These choices and more await you in what will surely be the ultimate test of survival.


RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Brave the wilds to collect resources such as berries, plant fiber, rocks, meat, wood, hide and bone! Cooperate with each other by planning the best use of the scarce resources you find. Some characters have skills that will assist you to obtain resources more easily. Equip them with items and unlock new discoveries to uncover their true potential!




FIRE DISCOVERIES To win the game your tribe must investigate the fire to learn its secrets before it burns out. Each discovery will help you to survive another day, and unlocking the ultimate discovery, "Fire Starter," means victory! Fire Knowledge Points, or FKP, are earned by spending stamina to roll the Fire Die, which awards anywhere from 0-3 FKP tokens per roll. You may then spend your FKP on Discoveries which help the entire group.


MULTIPLE DIFFICULTIES The core box comes with 4 different Fire Knowledge Trees to play against, each one offering a different difficulty and new set of challenges to work through!



CRAFTING WEAPONS, TOOLS, AND BUILDINGS You will need to craft various tools, weapons, and buildings to be able to survive long enough to learn the fire's secrets. Tools will assist you in obtaining resources, while weapons will help you to survive encounters with Danger! cards, providing meat from killing the attacking predators and preventing some if not all damage taken from skirmishes. There are also extremely beneficial buildings you can craft to aid the whole tribe, but choose wisely: you may only build one per game!


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Every One Box Bundle and Deluxe copy of Don't Let It Die come with the mini expansion called, Daylight.


New Rules -> Drawing a Nothing card from a resource deck triggers a Day Event. When an event is triggered, draw the top card from the Day Event deck. You must pick only 1 option, before choosing, read each option to see if it has a cost. Most Day Event cards have an event with 2 options to pick from.


New Resource -> Fish


Eating Fish restores Stamina instead of Health. Only Sig can catch Fish.


Daylight includes...


-1 Rule Card


-10 Day Event cards


-8 Fish Tokens


-1 Character Card, Sig



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# 4 New Characters

Hindrance brings 4 new Tribe members into the family! They will help you tame these new mountain lands with their wide arrangement of skills.
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# New Resources

The newly accessible mountain may be dangerous, but it holds valuable resources such as Gemstones, Dino Eggs and Medicinal Herbs. These new resources will aid you in their own unique ways.

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# 14 New Unique Items and Buildings

New Item's are available for crafting, offering tons of new abilitys and ways to help your Tribe deal with the fact that everything is trying to kill them! Some of the new Tribe members even bring their own unique item that cannot be crafted by normal means.

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# 32 New Unique Discoveries

These new Discoveries will be randomly drawn and selected to replace a variable number of Fire Knowledge Tree Discoveries, making each playthrough even more unique!

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# Physical and Mental Hindrances

When taking damage from Danger! cards you'll be drawing Physical Hindrances. These are temporary setbacks for your character and can be removed by eating or using new Medicinal Herbs.


If you stack up too many, your mental health will start to degrade and you'll be stuck with a non-removable Mental Hindrance for the rest of the game!

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Digital version now available!

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Click to get the Digital game!
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Camera & Navigation
ScrollZoom in / out
WASD / ↑↓←→Pan camera
RClick+DragPan camera
Mid+DragPan camera
0Reset view to center
VRotate your table view 90°
Cards & Decks
RDraw 1 card next to deck
1 – 9Draw that many cards to hand
FFlip card / reverse deck order
Shift+FShuffle deck or stack
HSend card / token to hand
SpacePreview image
Dbl-ClickFlip card
Dice & Coins
RRoll die / flip coin
1 – 9Set die to that face value
Shift++/−Step die face up / down
FFlip coin
Dbl-ClickRoll die / flip coin
Object Control
QRotate CCW 90°
Shift+QRotate CCW 45°
ERotate CW 90°
Shift+ERotate CW 45°
BSend to back layer
GGroup selected into deck / stack
LLock / unlock in place
Selection & Other
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Right-ClickOpen context menu
NToggle blindfold
EscDeselect / exit mode / close preview
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Q/E Rotation Step

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