Board card game · Kickstarter fall 2026
Four worlds are collapsing into one another. Capture your rivals, control the territory, conquer the Nexus, on a board.
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The concept
Nyxera is a collectible card game where you capture territory. Deploy your units on the grid, encircle your opponent to flip their cards to your side, and break through to their Nexus to bring it down to zero. No other genre plays like this.
Your cards become units on a grid. Where you place them matters as much as what you play: position is a weapon.
Trap an enemy unit between two of yours and it switches sides. Lost ground can be retaken; nothing is ever safe.
Every card carries its own movement pattern and effect. Build a 30-card deck and impose the style that defines you.
You win by reducing the enemy Nexus to zero, through breakthrough, capture and board control.
The worlds
When the Veil that kept them apart wears thin, four worlds collapse into one another: the Collision. At the heart of each beats a Nexus, its anchor of reality. Shatter it, and that world is erased and rewritten. Only one order will survive.
Dive into the lore → Which faction are you? Take the test →Heroic fantasy
The golden kingdom
Playstyle, Territory & defense
Eos, where no oath is ever broken. The oldest of the worlds, still alive, and with everything to lose. Behind its ramparts of dawn, they hold the ground to save what once was.
“No oath is ever broken.”
Manga / neo-shōnen
The city of tides
Playstyle, Aggression
Yura, where hot blood runs like white water. A young world that sees the Collision as a chance to seize: its champions surge onto the enemy Nexus before the counterattack can land.
“The tide waits for no one.”
Post-apocalyptic
The dead lands
Playstyle, Capture
Noxis, a world already fallen, with nothing left to lose. Raiders and mutants seize the worlds of others with the pincer: in their hands, your losses switch sides.
“What falls belongs to us.”
Cyberpunk
The neon megacity
Playstyle, Control
Xenon, city of neon and data, for whom reality is nothing but a system. Netrunners and AIs rewrite the game in a heartbeat of code: spells, hacks and maneuvers in service of control.
“Everything can be rewritten.”
The Codex
Cards to collect, combine, and master, each with its own movement pattern and effect. Here's a taste.
Tient le terrain. Tant qu'il est sur votre rangée maison, il ne peut être retourné.
2/4Les unités alliées adjacentes gagnent +1 DÉF.
3/5Déferle vers le Nexus. Se déplace de deux cases en ligne droite.
4/1À l'arrivée sur la rangée adverse : inflige 1 dégât supplémentaire au Nexus.
5/2Quand elle capture une unité, soignez votre Nexus de 1.
3/2Every card carries its 5×5 movement pattern: it's position, not luck, that decides. See how it plays →
Collection & Balance
Nyxera is a game of skill. Collecting and deckbuilding are a joy in their own right, but they fuel variety, never advantage. Here are our commitments.
Guaranteed resources, no draw ever decides the game in your place. In the end, the sharpest mind wins, not the deepest wallet.
Everything you need to compete stays within reach. Your collection expands your options, never your raw power.
New cards to invent new strategies, designed to widen the realm of possibilities, not to make your cards obsolete.
The meta is monitored and adjusted over time, with the community. An overpowered card gets fixed: competition stays healthy.
Strategy & Competition
Nyxera is pure strategy: no forced luck, nothing but your choices on the grid. Every game is a duel of minds where the best tactician prevails.
Capture, territory, movement, spells: every placement opens a thousand combinations.
Guaranteed resources, zero forced randomness: victory rewards your decisions.
Tense, readable duels where a single move can turn the game around.
Competition
100% skill: no pay-to-win, no bad draws deciding your fate. At launch, ranked mode arrives with its ELO score and its seasons. Climb the tiers, defend your rank.
Leaderboard, tiers and rewards shown are illustrative: they roll out with Season 1.
The adventure
You're arriving at the very beginning of the story. The best time to come aboard.
The game is being tested at the table, in print & play. We're honing the balance.
The big launch of the physical box, with you from day one.
Manufacturing of the core box and quality control.
Shipping the boxes to backers, around February-March 2027.
New cards and a community of strategists around the table.
The community
Join the Discord: follow development live, weigh in on the cards, join the playtests and cross paths with Nyxera's other strategists. The earliest members will hold a special place in the adventure.
Frequently asked questions
A collectible card game played on a board. You deploy your units on a grid, capture your opponent's by surrounding them, and bring their Nexus down to zero.
Position. Where most card games line units up in rows, Nyxera is played on a grid: surrounding an enemy unit flips it to your side. Placement becomes a weapon, and every card carries its own movement pattern.
The heart of the game is 1 versus 1, on the board. A 2-to-4-player mode (one per side of the board) is also planned.
No. Nyxera is 100% skill: guaranteed resources, no forced draw ever deciding the game for you. Your collection widens your options, never your raw power.
The core box contains everything you need to play and compete, with no random packs. Expansions then arrive as packs with fixed, known contents: you know exactly what you're buying. They deepen strategies without ever making your cards obsolete, and rarity grants no power advantage: it's purely a matter of style.
The game is being finalized and playtested at the table. Launch will happen through a Kickstarter campaign. Sign up to be the first to know: price, date and rewards will be announced at opening.
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Pre-launch
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