ExoTerra : The Giant Mech Campaign You've Been Waiting For
- Jul 20, 2025
- 4 min read
Deep Mech Customization. Multiple Paths To Victory. Strategic Teamwork. Rich and Challenging Enemies.
Wylde Games invites you to step into the cockpit of colossal mechs in their epic new cooperative campaign game on Kickstarter: Exoterra: The Giant Mech Deck-Builder. Prepare for deep customization, strategic teamwork, and rich storytelling as you pilot your "Jacket" through a war-torn sci-fi universe, battling cunning enemies and fighting for the future of your people.
Project Overview
Name and Creator: Exoterra: The Giant Mech Deck-Builder by Wylde Games.
What It Is: Exoterra is a 1-4 player cooperative campaign board game where players assume the roles of "Pilots" commanding powerful "Jackets" (giant mechs). Through engaging card-play, deep deck customization, and tactical map interaction, players will work together to complete missions, battle unique rival pilots, and progress through a branching narrative campaign set in a vibrant sci-fi world. It's a game of long-term planning, combo-crafting, and evolving challenges that react to your choices.
Key Features
Deep Mech Customization & Deck-Building: Choose from 15 unique Jacket miniatures (player mechs), each with distinct starting decks and play styles. Customize your "Arsenal" by adding powerful weapons, complex AI-personas, armor, and equipment through a robust deck-building system. As you gain "Reputation" from successful sorties, you'll unlock more powerful Jackets and new gear, allowing you to fine-tune your play style.
Cooperative Strategic Combat: Success in Exoterra hinges on seamless teamwork. Players must collaborate to exploit enemy weaknesses, support allies, and coordinate actions to achieve mission objectives. Many abilities are designed to synergize with teammates, fostering true cooperative play.
Rich & Challenging Enemies: Face off against cunning enemy Jacket pilots, each a unique puzzle with their own goals and strategies. Enemy activations are managed by a clever "macro" system, making them easy to run yet devious in their tactics. These rivals react to your actions and evolve throughout the campaign, creating emergent narratives and ensuring no two encounters are exactly alike.
Dynamic Campaign & Story-Driven Gameplay: Embark on a multi-arc campaign with a compelling sci-fi narrative. The story unfolds through character-driven plots, environmental storytelling on diverse maps (from lush plains to frozen moons and space colonies), and randomized quests and points of interest that provide constant strategic choices.
Tactical Map Interaction: Leverage the environment to your advantage. Maps are filled with points of interest, supplies, and wreckage that can be used for hit-and-run tactics, defensive positions, or to gain crucial resources. Player choices on how to interact with the map directly influence mission outcomes.
"Press Your Luck" Resource Management: Playing cards is fueled by "Reactor points," but powerful abilities can be "surged" by cashing in physical Jacket components (Hull, Cybernetics, Integrity). Push your luck to unleash devastating attacks, but risk leaving your Jacket vulnerable to destruction.
Quick Setup & Modular Design: The game is designed for quick setup, utilizing map books and pre-packed "dossiers" for enemy pilots, allowing you to get into the action faster (approx. 10 minutes setup). Modular expansions allow you to tailor the content to your preferences.
High Replayability: With a large deck of additional cards, randomized enemy pilot appearances, branching campaign paths, and deep customization, Exoterra offers extensive replay value.
Rewards
Rookie Pledge ($149 USD):
Includes: One (1) copy of the Exoterra Core Game (containing 1120 cards, 5 books, 9 boards, 51 standees, 416 tokens, 200 wooden pieces), and all unlocked stretch goals. (Offers a discount off the retail price, e.g., 25% off MSRP $200).
Veteran Pledge ($189 USD):
Includes: One (1) copy of the Exoterra Core Game, one (1) Miniatures Box (containing 15 unique player Jacket miniatures), and all unlocked stretch goals. (Offers a discount, e.g., 28% off MSRP $265).
Ace Pledge ($224 USD):
Includes: One (1) copy of the Exoterra Core Game, one (1) Miniatures Box, one (1) Tales From New Terra Modular Expansion (adding 225 cards, 13 standees, 44 tokens, and more player Jackets, enemies, and stories), and all unlocked stretch goals. (Offers a discount, e.g., 28% off MSRP $315).
Legend Pledge ($259 USD):
Includes: One (1) copy of the Exoterra Core Game, one (1) Miniatures Box, one (1) Tales From New Terra Modular Expansion, one (1) set of Wooden Tokens, and one (1) Operation Pitchstone Campaign Book (a new adventure), and all unlocked stretch goals. (Offers the deepest discount, e.g., 29% off MSRP $365).
The Idea
Concept: The core idea behind Exoterra is to deliver the definitive cooperative giant mech board game experience. Wylde Games aims to combine the strategic depth of deck-building and tactical combat with a rich, evolving narrative, allowing players to truly feel like pilots of massive, customizable mechs in a living, breathing sci-fi universe. They seek to provide a high degree of player agency and emergent storytelling within a structured campaign.
Inspiration: Creator Jared "Jarednw" was inspired by a lifelong love of giant mechs and sci-fi (citing influences like The Expanse, Pacific Rim, and Blade Runner, and video games like Into The Breach). After five years of development, the game is a passion project built to realize the dream of a deep, customizable, and cooperative mech combat game that reacts to player choices. The goal is to create a tabletop experience that captures the thrill of piloting a powerful war machine while fostering genuine teamwork against intelligent, evolving adversaries.
