Lone Shark Games has partnered with Monte Cook Games to release The Ninth World: A Skillbuilding Game for Numenera card game, designed by Paul Peterson (Smash-Up, Guillotine). The game is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter.

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The competitive card game is designed by Peterson, Boyan Radakovich and Mike Selinker, with graphics by Numenera artist Shane Tyree. The game is described as one part deckbuilder, one part Eurogame, and one part RPG. Two to five players are given a hand of cards that they work to improve over the course of the game. They build a character and explore the nine kingdoms of The Steadfast, finding relics, fight creatures, and adventuring through the realms.  Each player has five skills, and through the rounds, they perform different actions and bid against other players for cards that increase their skills, earning victory points for various actions. The winner is the player who gains the most victory points by the end of the game.

The box contains 6 character tableaus (2 nanos, 2 glaives, 2 jacks), 45 region cards (5 each in 9 kingdoms), 36 town cards, 54 wilderness cards, 115 skill cards, 15 wound cards, a gamebook, dice, a turn marker, 50 player markers, scoring markers and a monolith token. MSRP is tentatively $50.00 and release is planned for October.

The game is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, and is very near to its $50,000 goal with 24 days to go. The campaign features a retailer level for five copies of the game plus a demo copy and promotional materials.