Five Tribes

The Sultan of Naqala has died. The oracles have foretold of strangers coming to the land to control the Five Tribes. Will you fulfill the prophecy and become the new Sultan?

Players strategically maneuver around the city, take control of tiles, establish palaces, and earn the support of the five tribes of Naqala.

The city of Naqala’s layout is random every game, so every session is different. The tiles that make up the city offer players opportunities to generate more gold, victory points, build palaces, summon powerful Djinns, and more!

Players must carefully plan their moves as tribes like to stick together. You must always end your turn uniting a member of a tribe with another, so planning one step ahead can ensure your plans go accordingly while complicating your opponent’s future turns.

Every tribe has their own, unique ability that allows players to gain resources, earn gold, and remove other tribes from the board. Every game offers up new strategies for you to explore depending on the tribes’ placement around the city.

Players can summon the ancient Djinns of Naqala to gain abilities and victory points, increasing their chance of becoming the sultan.

A strategic bidding system gives players agency of their turn orders allowing them to spend gold for immediate control; however, spending gold could mean fewer victory points at the end of the game.

Five Tribes is designed by the award-winning Bruno Cathala and offers a unique twist on the worker placement genre while building on the long tradition of German board games.