Descending the Stairs is a storytelling card game for 1 to 6 players, detailing the final night at your favorite night club before it closes forever:
In ones and twos, or in big groups you arrive at the club.
The dance floor is crowded as you settle into your usual routine.
This is far from your first night at the club.
Knowing that it is your last, everything takes on depth and meaning.
You find yourself reminiscing, noticing things you might otherwise have missed . . .
Descending the Stairs is about relationships. It focuses on the players and their characters’ subjective impressions of the club, their history with it, and how that impacts their relationships with others.
For the best experience, expect to listen to each other as the world is being built around you, be attentive to what your fellow players are saying, and incorporate their stories into your own answers.
Thanks to the wonderful photographers of Pexels, Descending the Stairs contains a wide array of staircase images, chosen to inspire the players as they begin each play. Are these the stairs to the oldest rock club in England? To a glittering 70s disco? To an exclusive 19th century social club? To a smoky dive bar? Or are they the stairs to somewhere far stranger?
Standing at the top of the steep and narrow stairs - hot, sweaty, exhilarated.
Feeling thoroughly spent. A night at your favorite club is over.
But tonight, the club closes forever.
What will you take with you as you descend the stairs for the last time?
Descending the Stairs is a game Descended From the Queen, designed by Avri, with layout by Adam Vass.