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Stranger Things: Upside Down
Game Setup
Board and Decks
Place the board with the chosen season side up.
For the chosen season, shuffle separately:
Scene deck
Ally cards
Item cards
Action cards
Token Setup
Separate numbered tokens from Demogorgon tokens.
Shuffle numbered tokens.
Season 1:
Take 7 random tokens and shuffle them with the Demogorgon tokens.
Place them in the three Rescue Will slots.
Place the Demogorgon in the Upside Down school.
Place a patrol in Hawkins Castle Byers.
Hard difficulty:
Also place a patrol in the Upside Down lab.
Place remaining tokens in numbered slots.
Characters and Allies
Draw and place Ally card(s).
Place El on the 1st Act track space.
Choose 2 or more characters. For each:
Place miniature in starting location.
Take dashboard.
Place fear tracker cube.
Draw 5 random action cards.
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Objectives
WIN (Season 1):
Rescue Will.
WIN (Season 2):
Rescue Will, then Close the Gate.
LOSE:
Any character's fear track reaches maximum (terrified).
Run out of action cards in Act 3.