
Terminus Frontier
A cooperative board game of tactical squad combat, space exploration, & adventure set in an untamed star frontier for 1-4 players.
of 75,000 USD Goal
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Now that the campaign is over, be sure to stay connected! Join the Terminus Frontier community and help shape the development of the game. Also, we will be supporting home-brew content and asking our community for feedback as we finalize the game and components for printing.


🚀 Introduction

Five years in development, Terminus Frontier is an epic cooperative board game of tactical squad combat & space exploration for 1-4 players (5 players with expansion)!
Embark on a campaign-style space adventure, progressing along a continued storyline over multiple sessions. Travel the stars discovering new planets, collecting bounties on wanted fugitives, and forging alliances with rival stellar factions! Along the way, your squad will recruit fearsome renegades, outlandish aliens, and elusive agents to join your starship's crew. You will be forced to make harrowing decisions and face treacherous betrayals as you engage with the notorious denizens of the Terminus Frontier.
Take the helm of your ship and prepare to discover your destiny among the stars!



❗️Why Back Now?







🎇 What Makes This Special?



💡 Guest Designer

🤝🏼 The Drift Hunters


♟ How to Play


Choose your Squad Formation at the start of each round. Your chosen position determines your Initiative order and grants you Action Points (the yellow hexagon number), Threat gain (red number), and other bonuses.
Afterwards, Enemy Initiative is determined by flipping over an enemy AI card. Enemy Squad Activation tokens are then placed in the listed even-numbered Initiative spaces.


Spend your Action Points on Combat Tactics and other Skill Cards on your turn. Strategically play your skill cards to perform powerful combos to devastate the enemy forces!


Choose a Selective Fire mode such as Pulse, Burst, or Full-Auto when shooting. Conserve your ammo or spend it all on a powerful attack! When your weapon's Ammo Deck is empty, you will need to perform a Reload Action to form a new deck before you can continue attacking with that weapon.


Careful positioning matters in a firefight. Stay behind cover or be riddled with energy blasts! Outflank enemy cover positions to line-up clear shots!


Gain Resolve to fuel your Ultimate Ability. As you gain Threat during battle, enemies will target you more aggressively. However, you also will gain Resolve which can be spent on versatile Mantra Abilities or your Ultimate Ability. Unleash your Ultimate Ability to wreck havoc upon the enemy forces!


Discover new Weapons, Armor, & Gear across 4 Rarity Tiers by looting the Salvage Containers! Create your own gear combinations to customize your play-style! Become the ultimate Drift Hunter legend!


After a mission, use your ship to travel the Star Sector Map to find new patrons, missions, and crew members in our sandbox-like open-world! Investigate anomalies and distress beacons to uncover the mysteries of the Terminus Frontier!

The Star Sector Map cards are designed to fit into a standard Trading Card binder for rapid setup, breakdown, and quick-saving of game progress. Simply tuck the ship standee into the binder sleeve to save your location.

Star Atlas Binder sold as a separate Add-On.

Explore Planet Surfaces using the Exploration Book. Investigate points of interest and interact with the denizens and factions on those exo-worlds! Dialog with the inhabitants of the frontier to discover new missions, find rare items, and even recruit new Drift Hunters for your squad!

Options listed with a Book Icon are Narrative Branches that offer additional story and lore, but do not affect the game outcome or yield awards. If you wish to streamline the exploration phase, you may skip these.

Based on your dialog choices and the missions you complete, your reputation will change. Will your form a strong alliance with your patrons, or will you betray them and make them your enemy? The choice is yours to make!


Gain Experience and V-Cred by completing missions! In between Scenarios, spend V-Cred to purchase new weapons & items at Trade Districts. Spend Experience to purchase Skill Path upgrades for your Drift Hunter! Each Drift Hunter has 3 unique Skill Paths to advance down, allowing you to customize them to your play-style!
The Zealot's Skill Paths:

Use the new Skill Cards to construct the ultimate Skill Deck for your hunter. Look for card synergies and assemble powerful combos to devastate the hostile forces!

Will you remain loyal to the Terminus Colonies, or will the wealth of the corporations sway your allegiance? Will you put an end to the criminal underworld, or will you seize their power for yourself? You decide this and more, as you forge your own legend among the stars!

🎨 Miniatures Gallery


📦 What's in the Box?


📦 Miniatures Box

📦 Terrain & Colonist Box

🎁 Pledge Bundles


The Early Access Prototype comes with the 4 Starting Drift Hunters with full Upgrade Decks, Loot & Weapon decks, standees, map tiles, tokens, cardboard terrain, 5 prototype miniatures (3D Printed Resin versions), and other cards to play. The rulebooks will be digital PDFs. We have 4 printed Scenarios included in the box, but we will give you access to a Scenario Book PDF & Exploration Book PDF with Campaign Mode content as the layouts work become complete.
We will also ask your input as we finalize development. Help us shape Terminus Frontier to become the ultimate tactical space adventure game for players everywhere!
RETAILER PLEDGE:
Retailers can pledge a $50 deposit to be able to select their orders during the Pledge Manager phase. You must show proof of being a store, and there is a 5 copy minimum for Retailer Orders. These games will include applicable Stretch Goals according to the Pledge Tier selected. The price will be 50% off MSRP + shipping costs. If you have additional questions, please contact forgebornegames@gmail.com.
🕒 Pledge Over Time

New feature - Pledge Over Time is available! We are one of the first creators to offer Kickstarter’s new feature that allows backers to split their pledge into 4 equal payments.
Here’s how you can take advantage of this option:
- You can access Pledge Over Time once you reach a $125 pledge minimum
- You will see an option to “Pledge in Full” or “Pledge Over Time”
- The first charge will happen when the campaign ends successfully, with the remaining 3 happening every 2 weeks
We are excited about this enhanced flexibility for our community of backers. If you have more questions, you can visit this help center article for more information or reach out to the Kickstarter’s support team here.
🎁 Add-Ons






🎁 Stretch Goals






























☠️ Challenge Hunt

📺 Preview Videos

Coverage of Terminus Frontier at Origins 2024.
📺 Playthrough Videos

SCENARIO 1: THE HUNT - Full Playthrough and Intro to the Game Mechanics
SCENARIO 6: HOSTAGE RESCUE - Full Playthrough of a Stealth Scenario
SCENARIO 3: THE THRESHER - First Boss Battle Full Playthrough
SCENARIO 1: THE HUNT - Full Playthrough in German
SCENARIO 1: THE HUNT - Full Playthrough in Spanish
🚢 Shipping

📚 Rulebooks







🕹 Tabletop Simulator

If you would like to play Terminus Frontier now and try it before you pledge, we have a Tabletop Simulator Demo available (requires the Tabletop Simulator program available on Steam). The demo includes the 4 starting Drift Hunters with their Skill Decks & full Upgrade Decks for you to play with. There are also 4 spoiler-free scenarios to battle through:
- Scenario 1: The Hunt (intro skirmish scenario)
- Scenario 3: The Thresher (brutal boss battle)
- Scenario 6: Hostage Rescue (stealth scenario)
- Scenario 8: Desperate Hour (advanced harder skirmish scenario)
You can join our Discord Community for rules-help, demos, and even find people to teach you how to play! Also, as we get closer to shipping, we will update the Tabletop Simulator with more content for you to try out.
You can access the Tabletop Simulator Demo here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3165462121


🎨 The Artwork

Here are some behind-the-scenes drawings showing the process of creating our characters:



Absolutely no AI Art was used in the creation of Terminus Frontier. When you pledge for this project, you enable us to continue to support the Artist Community to create beautiful human-made works of art like these!
🍻 Meet Our Team



✉️ Social Media






👿 Enemy Lineup

🌐 Lore & World



Many Cycles ago, the Procyon Dominion sent four human colony ships to the Terminus Frontier to begin settling, mining, and terraforming the fringe worlds. Seeking to harvest the valuable Kadium Crystals and other rare resources found in this region, these pioneers left behind the comforts of the core worlds for a chance of a new beginning.
Unfortunately this expedition proved disastrous with many of these colonies beset by alien raiders, pirates, and strange illnesses. Recently all transmission contact with the distant Liandri colony has gone dark, spreading terror among the populace. Whispers of human-harvesting aliens strike fear into the hearts of the remaining colonies.


In response to the dire threats facing the Terminus Colonies, the Watchpoint coalition was established. Watchpoint’s mandate is to protect the colonies from outlaws, pirates, and to resist the spreading rule of the nova corporations. To combat incursions, Watchpoint deploys vigilantes called Drift Hunters to repel pirate raids and defend the colonists from harm. Most Drift Hunters are mercenaries and soldiers of fortune, but they are all that stands between the colonists and their would-be killers.


Unimpressed by the meager shipments of mined resources by the Terminus Colonies, the Radiant Corporation sent a contingent to the Terminus Frontier to ensure the flow of Kadium is uninterrupted. A massive nova corporation, Radiant Corp has been granted the legal jurisdiction to the Terminus Frontier by the Procyon Dominion.
Historically, this has led to terrible oppression and harmful living conditions for the colonists as they are pushed beyond their limits to harvest the natural resources of the frontier. Only Watchpoint is able to shield the colonists from the corporation’s oppressive rule. Unfortunately because Radiant Corp has the legal right to the Terminus Frontier, it is difficult for Watchpoint to publically oppose the nova corporation, instead relying on covert operations and subterfuge to halt their spreading control.


The Scrappers are a savage and ruthless alien species known to raid trade vessels and civilian ships along the frontier. Scrappers live up to their namesake, stripping ships bare to fuel the construction of more renegade pirate vessels.
As of late, Scrapper raids have become increasingly violent, leaving behind piles of butchered victims and half-eaten human remains. The Scrappers are considered a serious threat to the colonies. Will you be the one to put an end to their reign of terror?


The Skorpius Cartel is an underworld criminal organization that exerts control over the Terminus Frontier. The cartel is one of the older inhabitants of the frontier, having grown rich through extortion and the illegal mining of Kadium. They are a dangerous gang of criminals, killers, and fugitives so exercise extreme caution in their presence.
The Skorpius Cartel coerces recruits to join their gang by promising riches, power, and freedom from Radiant Corp’s oppression. They look for young upstarts who are frustrated by the abuse of the Procyon Dominion and brainwash them into following their cause.
The most zealous of recruits undergo extreme cybernetic augmentation, transforming them into the deadly killing machines known as the Skorpius Hellions. Stripped of their humanity and restraint, the Hellions are infamous for their cruel usage of fuel-powered technology. Anyone who dares resist the will of the cartel are publicly executed and burned alive, slowly immolated in searing agony.


The Reapers Syndicate is an organization of elite contract killers and assassins who offer their services to the highest bidder. The Shadow Reapers are often hired by underworld crime bosses to eliminate rivals and to exterminate competition in the frontier.
While the Skorpius Cartel prefers to control the populace using bluster and overt threats, the Reaper Syndicate takes a more subtle approach. Opponents of the Syndicate simply disappear one day, never to be seen again.
The Syndicate also participates in the illegal mining of Kadium, but to a lesser degree compared to the Skorpius Cartel.

A “benevolent” group of alien researchers and scientists, the Enclave of Cephalon has arrived in the frontier to study the great anomaly, the Arkadius Maelstrom. Strangers to the frontier, little is known about the Enclave or the true goals of their research.
An advanced and flourishing civilization, the Cephalonians are exemplars of scientific discovery and technology. The Cephalonians hail from a distant star system far beyond the Terminus Frontier. Very few interactions between the Procyon Dominion and the Cephalonians have been recorded, as the Cephalonians prefer to avoid the more power-hungry civilizations.

Hunter Pledge
This pledge contains:
• Terminus Frontier Core Game
• All Applicable Unlocked Stretch Goals
Please note shipping + any applicable Taxes or VAT (EU & UK) will be calculated and charged in the pledge manager. See 'Shipping' further down the Kickstarter page.
Estimated Delivery: Jul 2026

Frontier Pledge
This pledge contains:
• Terminus Frontier Core Box
• Miniatures Bounty Box
• All Applicable Unlocked Stretch Goals
Please note shipping + any applicable Taxes or VAT (EU & UK) will be calculated and charged in the pledge manager. See 'Shipping' further down the Kickstarter page.
Estimated Delivery: Jul 2026

Commander Pledge
This pledge contains the:
• Terminus Frontier Core Game
• Miniatures Bounty Box
• Engineer Drift Hunter & 5th Player Expansion
• Terrain & Colonist Box
• Star Atlas Binder
• 4x Neoprene Player Mats
• All Applicable Unlocked Stretch Goals
Please note shipping + any applicable Taxes or VAT (EU & UK) will be calculated and charged in the pledge manager. See 'Shipping' further down the Kickstarter page.
Estimated Delivery: Jul 2026

Retailers Only
The $50 pledge is a deposit toward your wholesale purchase of Terminus Frontier items. Retailers only! Minimum order of 5 copies of Terminus Frontier at 50% off MSRP.
Estimated Delivery: Jul 2026
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