THE SETTING
The year is 1913. You are the passengers and crew aboard the steamship
SS Atlantica, a small passenger ship operated by Fairmont Shipping
Co. that is traveling across the Atlantic Ocean en route to Boston,
Massachusetts. During the first days of the voyage, there are rumors
that the lookouts have spotted large, dark shapes in the water following
behind the ship. Some of the ship’s occupants have been behaving
strangely, making croaking sounds or staring unblinkingly at the open
sea. You, too, are not feeling quite yourself, your nights plagued by
dreams of eerie underwater landscapes teeming with shadowy figures.
Tensions are high, nerves are frayed, and the ship is a powder keg ready
to explode.
On the third night of the seven-day voyage, a passenger is found
murdered in the ship’s chapel. Her body is slumped over an ancient tome
with ritual components laid out around her on the chapel’s altar. An
illustration on the open page of the tome depicts a figure in the center of
a shimmering circle. Outside of the circle is a swarm of fleeing monsters.
You do not have long to contemplate the meaning of the image before
cries and screams of horror go up around the ship. Something has
emerged from the water and is climbing aboard!
—2—
OVERVIEW
Unfathomable is a game of hidden loyalties, intrigue, and
paranoia for three to six players. Some players are humans who are
fighting for the survival of the ship, its passengers, and its crew. But
some players are traitors, sent aboard the SS Atlantica by the Deep
Ones to ensure the ship never reaches port! Because player loyalties
are hidden, determining who is friend and who is foe is critical to
winning in Unfathomable.
During the game, the human players arm themselves with items,
fight Deep Ones, rescue passengers, and make sure that the ship
stays afloat. At the end of every human player’s turn is a crisis that
either poses a difficult decision for one player or challenges all
players to work together to overcome the crisis. If the humans can
work together successfully, the ship will eventually reach port,
resulting in a win for the humans.
However, the traitors are hiding among the humans, secretly
sabotaging the ship and doing all they can to ensure its doom. If the
ship sinks before it can reach its final destination, the traitors win.
USING THIS BOOK
This Learn to Play is intended to teach Unfathomable to
new players. Read this book in its entirety before playing. The
accompanying Rules Reference contains more detailed rules and
should be used as necessary to look up specific situations as they
arise during play.
Dial Assembly
Before playing Unfathomable for the first
time, attach the four resource dials to the board
as shown above.
 COMPONENTS

4 Resource Dials with 1 Standard

1 Game Board Plastic Connectors 8-sided Die

22 Monster Figures
(1 Mother Hydra, 1 Father Dagon,
10 Character Standees 1 Travel Track Token 1 Ritual Track Token 20 Deep Ones)

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THE MASTER-AT-ARMS defe move to any ship this skill check. If the check passes,
space.

10 Character Sheets 3 Traitor Reference Sheets 6 Player Reference Sheets

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Captain Keeper of the Tome Jeanne
Lafarge

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You are the person in charge of the ship You are tasked with keeping the ancient the gam e
tome of spells found with the murdered e. Lose 1
and its operations. sanity Lose 2
passenger in the chapel. Reading from to gain fuel an
When the travel track advances to the 2 souls. d1 food.
Arrive space, look at the top 2 cards the book allows you to cast spells, but the
of the waypoint deck, place 1 on the results can be unpredictable.
bottom of the deck, and then resolve Action: Look at the top 2 cards of the
the other. spell deck. Place 1 on the bottom of
When a human player in the Brig draws the spell deck. Then resolve the other.
a crisis card with , you choose which Limit once per turn.
track to advance.

10 Feat Cards 20 Spell Cards 20 Waypoint Cards

1 Captain 1 Keeper of the Tome
Title Card Title Card Repe
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2 Persis
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with firm ir
discoursefears can be 9 Ship Damage 126 Skill Cards
.
20 Item Cards
Pass:
Draw 1
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sanity.
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t. human Lose 1
sanity
and 1 sou
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14 Loyalty Cards 70 Mythos Cards

9 Passenger Tokens 4 Traitor Rings 1 Current Player Token

—3—
 1
FIRST GAME SETUP PREPARE GAME BOARD:
To set up your first game, perform these steps in clockwise order. The area
of the board referred to by each step is indicated by a matching numeral Place the game board in
on the board diagram. If this is not your first game, use the setup the center of the table.
instructions in Appendix IV of the Rules Reference.

8 8
CREATE CHAOS DECK: Take two
cards from each skill deck (except
treachery) and, without looking at
2
them, shuffle them together to create
the chaos deck. Place the deck in the
chaos deck space on the board. 7
Setup continues on page 6. Mother Father
Hydra Dagon

2 2
2 2 2

7 7
Deep Ones Passengers

7
PLACE MONSTERS AND PASSENGERS:
Place Father Dagon and Mother
Hydra in the Deep. Place six
additional Deep Ones and two
passenger tokens as shown.

Deep One Passengers

Father Dagon Mother Hydra

—4—
 2 3
SET TRACKS: Place the
SET DIALS: Set each
travel and ritual track
resource dial to its
tokens on the Start space of
starting value of 8.
their respective tracks.
Travel Track Ritual Track
Token Token

4
3 CREATE SUPPLY: Place the Deep One
figures, passenger tokens, traitor rings,
and eight-sided die next to the board.
Flip all passenger tokens facedown and
mix them thoroughly.

5
CREATE SKILL DECKS: Separate the
skill cards by type (influence, lore,
observation, strength, will, and
treachery), shuffle each type into its
own deck, and place each deck face
down beside the game board next to
the corresponding label.
ing
1 Comb
at 2
Train Combat Training
3
Strengt
h Rampage
Strength
Strength

4 Rampage
5 Shru
Action:
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Off 1:
Strength
attack
to
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Strength
4
• Perform up to 4 att
against enemies in Ramp
acks
Play durdie. your space. age
reroll a die.
reroll a
Action: Choose 1: • Perform the action Strength
acks
• Perform up to 4 att ability of one of your
against enemies in WeaponAc items
tion:upCh
When you would
your space. to 3 times. oose 1:
be defeated, play • Perfor
• Perform the action to m up to
your t yourself from against enemie 4 attacks
preven
ability of one ofbeing defeated. your spa s in
Weapon items up • Perfor
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to 3 times. m
ability the action
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Strength () Will () Influence ()

6 5
Observation () Lore () Treachery ()

17
The Mother's Wrath
Hydra lets out a ferocious roar that Ope

18
rattles the ship to its bolts. It seems
you have made her mad. A magical
n the Gat

the ocean gate to another

e
point in
6
would be could be opened,

CREATE DAMAGE AND MYTHOS DECKS:

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11
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12
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gain food. 1 sanityship to 2 times. 18+ soul.
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—5—
 LEARNING GAME
SELECT CHARACTERS: Randomly select a player to be the
current player and give them the current player token. Then, Suggested Characters
starting with the current player and proceeding clockwise,
each player chooses one character to play and takes that These character combinations are suggested for
character’s sheet. The “Suggested Characters” sidebar has your first game.
a list of recommended characters to use for your first game
according to the number of players. • THREE PLAYERS: Jeanne Lafarge, Svetlana
Gedroits, William Bowleg
Return the remaining character sheets to the game box.
• FOUR PLAYERS: Arjun Singh, Jeanne Lafarge,
Samira Dualeh, William Bowleg

9 • FIVE PLAYERS: Arjun Singh, Jamie Snell,

Samira Dualeh, Svetlana Gedroits, William
Bowleg
• SIX PLAYERS: Arjun Singh, Jeanne Lafarge,
Jamie Snell, Samira Dualeh, Svetlana
Gedroits, William Bowleg
Current Player Token

There are holes in William’s memor

CREATE PLAY AREAS: Each player Interior Space Action Abilities

takes the feat card and standee that

1-2 Bridge
Action: Risk a passenger
to look at the top 2
cards of the mythos or
3
Action: Choose 1:
Chapel

• Retreat the ritual track 1 space.

5 Cargo Hold
Action: Look at the top 2 cards
of the item deck. Place 1 on the
bottom of the deck. Place the
Occult Training
Action: If you are not in the Brig, 10
caverns he has free-dived since learn
day she came to his village in the Ba
look at the top card of the spell deck
waypoint deck. Place • Discard 1 lore () card from your hand to other in your play area. and put it back on the top or bottom

the foreigner with the dusty old boo

1 card on the top of roll a die. If the result plus the card’s value is of the deck. Then perform 1 action.

matches their chosen character that deck and 1 on 6 or less, lose 1 sanity. After resolving the
die roll, advance the ritual track 1 space. Limit once per turn.
the bottom.

isolated village. When she showed h

10 as well as a double-sided player

3 5
Sick
1-2
4
Bay
6
Brig 7-8
Quick Cast was incredulous: he knew these wat
reference sheet and places them 4 Captain’s Cabin 6 Galley 7-8 Boiler Room William Bowleg never seen this island before.
8
Action: Choose a Action: Draw up to 5 skill cards. Action: Discard 1 strength ()
character and resolve this These cards can be drawn from card from your hand to roll a die. Disrupt Ritual

in their play area. Return the

skill check. If the check
passes, move the chosen
character to the Brig.
any non-treachery skill deck(s).
Then roll a die. If the result is less
than the number of cards drawn,
lose 1 food.
If the result plus the card’s value
is 6 or less, lose 1 fuel. After
resolving the die roll, advance
Jeanne Lafarge
Action: If you are the
Keeper of the Tome, Upon reaching the island, they foun
When you reveal as a traitor, if
you are not in the Brig, advance
the travel track 1 space. resolve the top card of the
When she asked if he could dive into
or retreat the ritual track up
spell deck.

remaining feat cards and standees

to 2 spaces.
Then remove this feat
Sick Bay
You draw only 1 skill card during
8 Brig
Characters in this space follow Brig rules.
2
from the game and
perform 1 action.
that he could dive anywhere. When
Will

to the game box.

your Receive Skills step. Action: Resolve this skill check. If the check passes,
move to any ship space.
3 Lore
THE APPRENTICE there, she said she did not know.
To this day, William has no idea ho
Player Reference Sheet Character Sheet Feat Cardor what Standee he found there. After he cam
compelled to help this peculiar wom
mysteries. For the next six months, t
book’s strange writing but only scra
GATHER ITEMS: Each player takes the starting item listed on the
Tonight, William was in the ship’s c
back of their character sheet from the item deck and places it ritual of protection for the ship, whe
faceup in their play area. Shuffle the remaining items to create Elder Sign
Starting Space: her cabin. And then, another missin
the item deck and place it beside the game board next to its Amulet Chapel the lights flickered out. It seemed to

label ().
11 cabin showed twenty minutes had p
Starting Item: he found his companion dead. Willi
Jeanne Lafarge

fact
Y Artiffa
Z

Elder Sign Amulet thing is certain: whoever was respon

11 Binocu
lars

Pocket
Tool Kit Book of
Dagon
When you perform the
action ability of a lore ()
card, you may resolve its
effect twice.

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act
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damage
Obser 1 action. Limit once
per turn.
+1 Action: Perform an attack
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in your die is rolledAc
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v Z
ve
against an enemy discar , you may
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game. s card

12

PLACE CHARACTERS: Each player places the standee

for their chosen character in the starting space on the
board listed on the back of their character sheet.

12

—6—
 DRAW SKILL CARDS: Each player 3
er
Less ment 1
Shrivelling Determ 2
Occult Training

except the current player draws the r ivellin 4 h

g Banis re
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THE APPRENTICE
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CREATE WAYPOINT DECK: Shuffle the

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PLAYER COUNT 3 4 5 6 During a standard game of Unfathomable,

players are dealt a secret loyalty card to begin
HYBRID LOYALTY CARDS 1 1 2 2 the game (see the Rules Reference for standard
HUMAN LOYALTY CARDS 5 7 8 10 setup). For your first game, players start without
any loyalty cards in order to familiarize everyone
16 with the game rules in an atmosphere where
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Loyalty Deck Contents for a

Three-Player Game

—7—
 FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OBJECT OF THE GAME
This section contains the fundamental concepts for For players who are loyal humans, the object of the game is to usher
Unfathomable that provide context for players who are about to the SS Atlantica to safety at its destination port of Boston. How this
learn how to play the game. is accomplished is described later.

For traitor players, who are loyal to the Deep Ones, the object of the
LOYALTIES game is to prevent the SS Atlantica from completing its voyage. This
The concept of loyalty is central to Unfathomable, with players occurs if the ship is destroyed, overrun by Deep Ones, or depleted
secretly desiring different outcomes. Some players will be loyal to of any of its critical resources, all of which are described later.
the humans trying to reach dry land, and some will be loyal to the
Deep Ones intent on sinking the ship. RESOURCES
During the game, each player receives one or more loyalty cards, The Atlantica has limited supplies. There are four resources critical
which remain secret. These cards determine who is on which side. for the ship’s survival, which are tracked by the four resource dials
on the board. During the game, loyal humans must ration and
Y U ARE A
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HU MAN HY BRI D L IST
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You feel like you are a human, but you
can never know for sure...
If you have only Human loyalty
cards, you win the game if the human
objective is met.
You begin to notice changes in your
appearance and feel an inexplicable
compulsion to help the creatures
attacking the ship.
If the game ends before the human
objective is met, you win the game
(even if you have 1 or more Human
loyalty cards).
You have pledged your life to advancing
the aims of the Deep Ones...but you still
cannot breathe under water.
If the ship has traveled 12 or more
distance and the game ends before
the human objective is met, you win
the game (even if you have 1 or more
Human loyalty cards).

The three types of loyalty cards.

With secret loyalties, players do not know if they are able to
trust each other because their goals and motivations are hidden.
Determining who can be trusted and who cannot allows players to
better coordinate their efforts and thus improve their chances of
victory.

For your first game, you will only use Human and Hybrid loyalty
cards. You will not use the Cultist loyalty card.

MONSTERS AND MONARCHS Resource Dials

There are three types of monsters in the game: Father Dagon,
Mother Hydra, and Deep Ones. Father Dagon and Mother Hydra
The four resources are:
are collectively referred to as monarchs.
J FUEL (): This dial represents the Atlantica’s fuel reserves.
MONSTERS J FOOD (): This dial represents the food and water required to
keep the people aboard the ship alive.

J SANITY (): This dial represents the sanity and morale of the
crew and passengers. Operating the ship becomes impossible if
MONARCHS those aboard lose their grip on reality.

J SOULS (): This dial represents the people aboard the Atlantica,
both passengers and crew. Operating the ship becomes
impossible if there are too few people.

When a resource is gained or lost, its dial is adjusted to reflect its

current total. Typically, fuel is lost when the ship travels, food
and sanity are lost when resolving crises, and souls are lost when
Deep Ones passengers are defeated, all of which are described later.

Mother Hydra Father Dagon

—8—
 SKILLS SPACES
Skills represent common abilities shared by the characters in the The portion of the board that depicts the SS Atlantica and the
game. Players use their skills to defend or sabotage the ship and to surrounding waters is divided into spaces. There are two types of
bring about resolutions to the crises that affect all players. spaces: water spaces and ship spaces.

There are six skills in the game: influence (), lore (), Water spaces are the outermost spaces on the board. Two of these
observation (), strength (), will (), and treachery (). spaces are numbered “1–4” and “5–8.” These two spaces make up
Each skill has its own deck of skill cards, but all skill cards share a the front of the ship. The water spaces at the opposite end of
common card back. A card’s skill type is presented by the skill icon the board are the back of the ship. Only monsters can move to
and colored border on its face. water spaces. Characters cannot move to water spaces.
Occult Training

2 Shrivelling Action: If you are not in the Brig,

look at the top card of the spell deck
Lore
and put it back on the top or bottom
of the deck. Then perform 1 action.
Skill Type Limit once per turn.
(Lore) Action: Choose 1 enemy
in any space and roll a die.
If the chosen enemy is a
Deep One, add 2 to the
result. If the result is 6 or
more, defeat that enemy.

Lore cards are purple. Disrupt Ritual Water Spaces

Jeanne Lafarge When youShiprevealspaces consist

as a traitor, if of two subtypes: deck spaces and interior spaces.
Each character has their own skill set that is presented on their you are notCharacters
in the Brig,and Deep Ones can move to ship spaces. Monarchs
advance
or retreat the
character sheet and determines which skills the character has access ritualDagon
(Father track upand Mother Hydra) cannot move to ship spaces.
to during the game. to 2 spaces.
Deck spaces form a ring around the interior spaces and are
numbered from 1 to 8.
Lore 2 Will
3
THE APPRENTICE
William Bowleg’s Skill Set

SKILL CHECKS
Skill checks represent situations in which players work together as a
group to resolve crisis situations. Because the loyalties and goals of
each player are unknown, it is never completely clear who is working
to help overcome the crisis, and who is working to make it worse.

During a skill check, players can secretly add cards from their hand
Deck Spaces
to the check in an effort to cause the check to pass or fail. Players
cannot be certain who tried to help overcome the crisis and who Interior spaces each have a name and a brief description of
tried to sabotage that effort because players add their cards in secret, their game function. The complete text for these game effects is on
along with random cards from a chaos deck. the player reference sheets. Most interior spaces have one or more
numbers from 1 to 8. The two interior spaces without numbers, the
Brig and Sick Bay, have unique rules that are described later.
THE DEEP
The Deep is a portion of the board that represents the depths of
the ocean where the monsters muster and regroup. Monsters that
are in the Deep cannot be affected by player abilities.

The Deep
Interior Spaces

—9—
 PLAYING THE GAME STEP TWO: ACTION
Unfathomable is played in a series of player turns. Starting with During a player’s action step, that player performs two actions of
the first player and proceeding clockwise, players continue to take their choice, one at a time. The player can perform the same action
turns until the game ends. The player who is taking their turn and twice. The actions a player can perform on their turn are: move,
has the current player token is the current player. attack, rescue a passenger, use an action ability, trade, or reveal as a
traitor.
A player’s turn comprises the following steps, which are performed
in order: MOVE
1. RECEIVE SKILLS
The player can spend one action to move their character to any ship
space on the board other than Sick Bay and the Brig. Multiple
2. ACTION characters can occupy the same space.

3. MYTHOS

4. DISCARD Move Example

Each step is described in more detail on the following pages.

STEP ONE: RECEIVE SKILLS

During this step, the current player draws the type and number of
skill cards that are presented on their character sheet and adds them
to their hand of skill cards. The type and number of skill cards is the
character’s skill set.

Jeanne Lafarge escapes from a Deep One on the

Occult Training
Action: If you are not in the Brig,
ship’s deck by moving to the Captain’s Cabin in
look at the top card of the spell deck
and put it back on the top or bottom
of the deck. Then perform 1 action.
the interior of the ship.
Limit once per turn.

Disrupt Ritual

ATTACK
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SICK BAY
Players who are in the sick bay are recovering from injuries and
therefore do not receive their full skill set of cards during their turn.

If a player is in the Sick Bay space of the board during their Receive
Skills step, they draw only one card of their choice from their skill
set.
Jeanne Lafarge attacks a Deep One in her space.
PLAYING SKILL CARDS She rolls a 4 on the attack, which is high enough
Each skill card has an ability on it. To use that ability, a player can to defeat the Deep One. The Deep One is
play that card from their hand during any player’s turn. After a skill returned to the supply.
card’s ability has resolved, that card is placed into the discard pile
for skill cards of that card’s type.

—10—
 RESCUE A PASSENGER USE A SPACE’S ACTION ABILITY
Passengers, which are represented by passenger tokens, may be If the player is in an interior space, that player can spend one action
in danger while on the ship’s deck. If a passenger is defeated, it to use the action ability for that space, which is listed on the player
can cause the ship to lose souls and sanity. A player can rescue a reference sheets. The action for each interior space may only
passenger to move them to safety. be used once per turn. A player cannot use the action for their
space if there is at least one Deep One in that space.
If the player is in the same space as a passenger token, they can
Interior Space Action Abilities
spend one action to rescue that passenger. When a passenger is 1-2 Bridge 3 Chapel 5 Cargo Hold
rescued, its token is removed from the board and returned to the Action: Risk a passenger
to look at the top 2
Action: Choose 1:
• Retreat the ritual track 1 space.
Action: Look at the top 2 cards
of the item deck. Place 1 on the
cards of the mythos or bottom of the deck. Place the
supply of passenger tokens. If there is more than one passenger waypoint deck. Place
1 card on the top of
• Discard 1 lore () card from your hand to
roll a die. If the result plus the card’s value is
6 or less, lose 1 sanity. After resolving the
other in your play area.
that deck and 1 on
token in the space, the player can choose one of those passengers to the bottom. die roll, advance the ritual track 1 space.

rescue for each action spent. 3

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Rescue Example 8
Action: Choose a
character and resolve this
skill check. If the check
passes, move the chosen
character to the Brig.
Action: Draw up to 5 skill cards.
These cards can be drawn from
any non-treachery skill deck(s).
Then roll a die. If the result is less
than the number of cards drawn,
lose 1 food.
Action: Discard 1 strength ()
card from your hand to roll a die.
If the result plus the card’s value
is 6 or less, lose 1 fuel. After
resolving the die roll, advance
the travel track 1 space.

Sick Bay
You draw only 1 skill card during
8 Brig
Characters in this space follow Brig rules.
your Receive Skills step. Action: Resolve this skill check. If the check passes,
move to any ship space.

Interior space actions are shown on the player reference sheet.

Passenger
TRADE
Each player begins the game with the item card specified on their
character’s sheet. Items provide players with additional abilities that
they can use. Players can gain more items from the Cargo Hold.
William Bowleg rescues a passenger in his space, The player can spend one action to allow any number of players to
returning the token to the supply. trade items. Any number of items can be traded, and trades do not
require the current player to be involved, but all players involved in
a trade must be in the current player’s space.

REVEAL AS A TRAITOR
USE AN ACTION ABILITY This action option is described later.
An action ability is preceded by the word “Action:” and can
appear on character sheets and many types of cards, such as skill
cards and item cards. The player can spend one action to use one of
these action abilities. That ability must be on a card in the player’s Tracking Actions
play area or on a skill card in the player’s hand. To use an action
ability on a skill card, the player must reveal the card to everyone,
resolve the card by following its instructions, and then discard the
card. When a player resolves the action ability on a card in their play
area, they do not discard that card.

You can use the current player token to track

Deck Chief
how many actions you have left in your turn.
Action: Move to any deck space.
Then perform 1 action. Limit To do so, when you receive the token, align it so
once per turn. that the arrow in the center points away from
you. This positions the two white marks at the
top of the wheel, indicating that you have two
An example of an action ability. This ability grants actions remaining.
the player an additional action (see below).
As you use your actions or gain additional
actions, rotate the wheel so that the number of
ADDITIONAL ACTIONS marks at the top of the wheel equals the number
Some action abilities have the phrase “Then perform 1 action.” Such of actions you have remaining.
abilities allow the player to immediately perform another action.
Direct
This can allow a player to Off
perform Course
more than two actions during
their turn. When you reveal as a traitor, if
you are not in the Brig, reset the
travel track. —11—
 STEP THREE: MYTHOS
During this step, the current player draws and resolves the top card
of the mythos deck. Mythos cards represent a variety of events
that threaten both the ship and everyone aboard. Mythos cards are
composed of three main parts, which are resolved in the following
order:
CHOICES
Choices present a player with a choice of two outcomes. Often the
choice is made by the current player, but many choices are made
by the player who has either the Captain title or the Keeper of the
Tome title. The crisis specifies which player chooses. The effects of
each option are read aloud before the choice is made.

1. THE CRISIS: This provides the players with a problem that must Food Rationing
be solved.
With the ship in the midst of a crisis,
2. MONSTER ACTIVATION ICON: This causes one or more monsters to rationing would be wise but unpopular.
Tough choices such as these are part of a
activate. captain’s responsibility to the ship.
3. TRACK ICON: This causes one of the tracks on the game board to
advance.
Captain Chooses:
Hull Leak
Implement rationing: Lose 1 food.

9 Water is rushing into one of the ship's

compartments through a puncture in
Then roll a die. If the result is 6 or less,
lose 1 sanity.
the hull. There is precious little time
to make repairs. 1
OR

Keep the galley open: Lose 2 food.

Pass: No effect.

Fail: Damage the ship. A Crisis with a Choice

SKILL CHECKS
Skill checks present the players as a group with a challenge that, if
overcome, prevents the ship from suffering a negative effect. These
challenges are presented as skill checks. (The resolution of skill
checks is described on page 16). The mythos card details the
2 3 effects of passing or failing the skill check.
Anatomy of a Mythos Card:
Crisis (1), Monster Activation Icon (2),
and Track Icon (3) Flooding Compartment

THE CRISIS 9 A passenger compartment is filling

with water. You must act quickly to
evacuate its occupants.
Every mythos card presents the players with a crisis that must be
resolved. To resolve the crisis, the current player reads the story
text aloud. Then, the players resolve the crisis according to its
type. There are three types of crises: choices, skill checks, and
combinations of the previous two.
Pass: No effect.

Fail: Lose 1 soul.

A Crisis with a Skill Check

—12—
 COMBINATIONS
Some crises contain a combination of a choice and a skill check.
For these cards, the indicated player decides to either perform a
skill check or resolve a negative effect. If they choose to resolve the
negative effect, the skill check is not performed. Both options are
read aloud before the player makes their choice.
MONSTER ACTIVATION ICONS
The Atlantica is under assault by a number of Deep One monsters,
led by the gigantic Mother Hydra and Father Dagon. When
monsters activate, they can move, damage the ship, defeat
passengers, or add more monsters to the board.

Bucket Brigade
  
16 The ship has taken on water due to
damage and storms, which is slowing Mother Hydra Father Dagon Deep One
the ship's progress. Bailing out some Icon Icon Icon
of that water would allow the ship to
reach greater speeds.
Each mythos card has an icon that indicates which monster
activates in the lower right corner. These icons represent Mother
Captain Chooses: Hydra (), Father Dagon (), and Deep Ones (). The rules
Pass:
Risk 2 passengers to advance the for activating each of these monster types are described later.
travel track 1 space.
Fail: Lose 1 fuel. Risk 2 passengers. TRACK ICONS
OR Each mythos card has an icon in the lower right corner that matches
Leave the water: Roll a die. If the either the travel track, the ritual track, or both. These tracks are
result is 6 or less, lose 1 fuel. described later. When resolving this icon, the current player
advances the token on the indicated track one space. The choice of
tracks icon (see below) allows the current player to choose which of
the tracks to advance.

A Crisis with Both a Choice

and a Skill Check
  
Travel Track Ritual Track Choice of Tracks
CHARACTER-SPECIFIC MYTHOS CARDS
Green mythos cards have a crisis that is specific to a certain
character (e.g. “Keilani Tatupu Chooses”). If such a mythos card After the track icon on the mythos card is resolved, that card is
is drawn for a character who is not in the game, who is currently in completed and is placed in the mythos discard pile.
the Brig space, or who has revealed themself as a traitor (described
later), discard that mythos card and draw a new one. STEP FOUR: DISCARD
After the current player resolves the mythos card, each player
Do No Harm counts the number of skill cards in their hand. Each player that has

13 Ship security rushes an injured more than 10 cards in hand chooses and discards cards from their
man into Svetlana’s sick bay. They hand until they have only 10 cards in hand.
believe this man planted an explosive
somewhere on the ship and they Then, the current player token is passed to the player to the left, who
can get the location out of him...if begins their turn.
he survives his injuries. However, he
refuses to be treated.

Svetlana Gedroits Chooses:

Pass: Lose 1 sanity. Move to Sick Bay.

Lose 1 sanity. Damage the ship.
Fail:
Move to Sick Bay.
OR

Refuse to participate: Move to the

Brig. Damage the ship.

A Crisis with a Character-Specific Choice

—13—
 TRAVEL TRACK
The travel track indicates the SS Atlantica’s progress toward its next
waypoint on its journey. Each time the travel track advances,
primarily due to track icons on mythos cards, it moves the loyal
human players closer to victory.
Travel Track
When resolving a waypoint card, the player with the Captain title
places it in a row next to the board, beside any other waypoint cards
that were previously resolved. Then, the player resolves the text of
that waypoint card. After the card is resolved, the token on the travel
track is reset by being placed on the Start space of that track.
If a game effect instructs a player to “retreat the travel track,” they
move the token on that track the indicated number of spaces back
toward the Start space. If the token reaches the Start space before it
has moved the indicated number of spaces, the remaining spaces are
ignored. Do not move monsters in water spaces when retreating the
travel track.

As the ship steams ahead, the monsters attacking it from the water
fall behind. Each time the token on the travel track advances, all
monsters in water spaces are moved one water space toward the
Waypoints
3 2 4 3
back of the ship (the water spaces opposite the numbered water
spaces). Any monsters that were already in the water spaces behind 3 2 4 3
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Either lose 1 fuel or damage passenger to roll a die.
Lose 1 fuel and 1 food. Lose 2 fuel. Damage the ship.
the ship twice. If the result is 5 or more,
gain 1 food.

track, the ship has reached its next waypoint in its journey. When a
waypoint is reached, the player with the Captain title draws the top Each waypoint card has a distance value of 2, 3,
two cards of the waypoint deck, chooses one to resolve and places or 4. After resolving these four waypoints that
the other on the bottom of the waypoint deck. add up to the target distance of 12, the game will
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higher the distance value, the more fuel the waypoint requires. The
Lose 1 fuel. You may risk a
players must travel to waypoints with a combined distance of 12 or Either lose 1 fuel or damage passenger to roll a die.
more and then reach the Arrive space once more to win the game. Lose 1 fuel and 1 food. Lose 2 fuel. Damage the ship.
the ship twice. If the result is 5 or more,
gain 1 food.

Advancing the Travel Track

When the travel track advances, each monster in a water space moves one space toward the back of the ship. Monsters in the
rear water spaces move to the Deep. Monsters in ship spaces are on board the ship and are unaffected.

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 RITUAL TRACK
Before her murder, the original keeper of the tome had begun a
ritual in the ship’s chapel to cast a greater banishment spell to
protect the ship from the approaching monsters. In the wake of her
death, some of the ship’s passengers have taken up the ritual in an
attempt to protect the ship. The ritual track represents these
passengers’ progress toward casting the greater banishment spell
and moves primarily by track icons on mythos cards.
Ritual Track
When the token on the ritual track reaches the Cast space, the
ritual has reached a crescendo and all monsters, characters, and
passengers above deck and in the water surrounding the ship are
struck by the greater banishment spell.
Advancing the Ritual Track
1. The marker on the ritual track reaches the Cast space.
2. All Deep Ones in water and deck spaces are defeated and
removed from the board.
3. Mother Hydra and Father Dagon move to the Deep.
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The greater banishment spell has the following effects:
J All Deep Ones in deck or water spaces are defeated and removed
from the board. Deep Ones in interior spaces are unaffected.
J Father Dagon and Mother Hydra are moved to the Deep.
J All passenger tokens in deck spaces are defeated. Flip each of
these tokens faceup and reduce each resource dial by one for
each icon matching that dial on those tokens. Then, remove
those tokens from the game.
J All characters in deck spaces are defeated; move each character
standee in a deck space to Sick Bay.
After resolving the effects of the greater banishment spell, the token
on the ritual track is reset by being placed on the Start space of that
track.
If a game effect instructs a player to “retreat the ritual track,” they
move the token on that track the indicated number of spaces back
toward the Start space. If the token reaches the Start space before it
has moved the indicated number of spaces, the remaining spaces are
ignored.
4. All passengers in deck spaces are defeated. This
passenger’s defeat results in the loss of one soul.
5. All characters in deck spaces are defeated and move to
Sick Bay.
6. The marker on the ritual track resets to the Start space.
 TITLES
There are two titles in the game, the Captain and the Keeper of the
Tome, represented by title cards. Each title confers its own powers
and responsibilities upon the player who holds the title.
Players can lose their titles, such as when they move to the Brig.
When a player loses a title, it is given to the player who is highest in
the line of succession for that title (shown on the back of the title
card). Revealed traitors and players in the Brig cannot gain titles.
CAPTAIN
The Captain is the player in charge of determining the ship’s course.
When the token on the travel track reaches the Arrive space, the
Captain draws two waypoint cards and chooses one of them to
resolve. Then, the Captain places the other card on the bottom of
the waypoint deck.
The Captain is also given a choice to make on numerous crises.
The Captain title card reminds players of these rules.
Captain
You are the person in charge of the ship
and its operations.
When the travel track advances to the
Arrive space, look at the top 2 cards
of the waypoint deck, place 1 on the
bottom of the deck, and then resolve
the other.
When a human player in the Brig draws
a crisis card with , you choose which
track to advance.
Captain Title Card
KEEPER OF THE TOME
The Keeper of the Tome is responsible for carrying and utilizing an
ancient tome of magical spells. The Keeper of the Tome title card
provides the player holding the title with a unique action ability that
allows them to draw and resolve spell cards.
Keeper of the Tome
You are tasked with keeping the ancient
tome of spells found with the murdered
passenger in the chapel. Reading from
the book allows you to cast spells, but the
results can be unpredictable.
Action: Look at the top 2 cards of the
spell deck. Place 1 on the bottom of
the spell deck. Then resolve the other.
Limit once per turn.
Keeper of the Tome Title Card
Spell cards have powerful abilities, ranging from defeating Deep
Ones to recovering resources. However, these spells always come
with a price, most often the potential to lose sanity.
The Keeper of the Tome also makes a choice on some crises.
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RESOLVING SKILL CHECKS
A skill check is presented as a target number and two or three
skill icons. Each skill icon indicates that skill cards of that type
contribute positively to the skill check. These are supporting
skills. Each skill type that is not shown in the skill list contributes
negatively to the skill check. These are opposing skills.
To resolve a skill check, players follow these steps, which are
performed in order:
1. ANNOUNCE CRITERIA: Announce the target number and the
supporting skills.
2. ADD CHAOS CARDS: Take the top two cards from the chaos deck
and place them facedown within reach of all players, creating a
skill check pile. As soon as the chaos deck is emptied, take two
cards from each skill deck—except for treachery—and shuffle
them together to form a new chaos deck.
3. ADD SKILL CARDS: Starting with the player to the left of the
current player and ending with the current player, each player
in clockwise order has one opportunity to contribute cards to
the skill check. A player can contribute one or more cards by
taking those cards from their hand and placing them facedown
on the skill check pile. A player is not required to contribute
any skill cards to the check.
4. SHUFFLE CARDS: The current player shuffles the skill check pile
to ensure no one knows which cards each player contributed
to the skill check. Keeping players’ contributions secret is
important when traitors are introduced into the game.
5. SORT CARDS: The current player flips each card in the skill check
pile faceup one at a time, placing it in one of two piles: one for
supporting skills and one for opposing skills.
6. CALCULATE TOTAL: Add the value of all supporting skill cards
and subtract from it the total value of all opposing skill cards. If
the total is greater than or equal to the target number, the skill
check passes. Otherwise, the skill check fails.
7. DISCARD CARDS: All of the skill cards added to the skill check
are discarded to the appropriate skill card discard piles (each of
which is placed next to its corresponding deck).
PASSING OR FAILING
The effects of passing or failing the skill check are indicated on the
mythos card that initiated the skill check. Some crises also allow for
a partial success. Such cards have a section between the pass and fail
sections that starts with a number, such as “8+”. This indicates that if
the skill check total was not high enough to reach the target number
but was equal to or greater than this number (8 in this example),
then this section is resolved instead of the fail section.
Some ship spaces also cause skill checks to occur. These spaces
describe what happens if the skill check passes. If any of these skill
checks fail, there is no effect.
 Skill Check Example
The current player draws the Food Stores Raid mythos card,
which initiates a skill check.
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Opposing Skills
1. The Food Stores Raid crisis has a target number of 11 and
the supporting skills are influence () and strength Target
(). All other skills are opposing skills. Number
Food Stores Raid

11 Hungry passengers are storming the

ship’s pantry in search of food. The
Supporting galley staff has requested help in
defusing the situation.
Skills

4 Pass: No effect.

5 8+: Lose 1 food.

3
Fail: Lose 2 food.

Chaos Deck
Skill Check Pile

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Weapon items up added to a skill check.
The current player is last to add cards to the check and to 3 times. defusing the situation.
All skill cards are added
faceup during this check,

chooses to add three cards. All cards added to the skill except for cards from the
chaos deck.

check are then shuffled together.

Pass: No effect.

6. The shuffled skill cards are revealed and separated into Supporting
piles for supporting skills and opposing skills. SkillsPass: No effect. 8+: Lose 1 food.

7. The total of all supporting skills is 14. After the total of

Fail: Lose 2 food.
the opposing skills (4) is subtracted, the final total is 10.
This is less than the target number of 11, but exceeds the
7 8+: Lose 1 food.

partial success number of “8+,” so the players resolve

the middle outcome of the crisis and “lose 1 food” by Fail: Lose 2 food.
reducing the food dial by one.

—17—
 ACTIVATING MONSTERS
Monsters activate when resolving a mythos card, which can cause
them to move and attack or can cause new monsters to be placed
on the board. If the players must place Deep One figures on the
board and there are not enough figures in the supply to do so,
the game ends. Ending the game is described later.
The icon presented on the mythos card determines which monsters
activate, but the location of these monsters also determines how the
activation is resolved.
MOTHER HYDRA ()
When Mother Hydra activates, she attacks and damages the ship.
Mother Hydra damages the interior space of the ship that is closest
to the water space where she is located. (Damaging spaces is
described on the next page.) Then, Mother Hydra moves one water
space toward the front of the ship (the numbered water spaces).
If Mother Hydra is in the Deep, instead of activating her, the
current player adds two Deep Ones to the Deep. Then, if there are
four or more Deep Ones in the Deep, the current player rolls a die
and moves Mother Hydra and all Deep Ones in the Deep to the
water space in front of the ship that matches the result on the die.
2 • If the Deep One is in a water space, it moves to the adjacent
1
Mother Hydra damages the Chapel (1) and then moves one
water space toward the front of the ship (2).
FATHER DAGON ()
When Father Dagon activates, two Deep Ones from the supply are
placed in the deck space adjacent to Father Dagon’s space. Then,
Father Dagon moves one water space toward the front of the ship
(the numbered water spaces).
If Father Dagon is in the Deep, instead of activating him, the
current player adds two Deep Ones to the Deep. Then, if there are
four or more Deep Ones in the Deep, the current player rolls a die
and moves Father Dagon and all Deep Ones in the Deep to the
water space in front of the ship that matches the result on the die.
Father Dagon places two Deep Ones from the supply on the
adjacent deck space (1) and then moves one water space
toward the front of the ship (2).
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DEEP ONES ()
When the Deep Ones activate, all Deep Ones on the board—
except those in the Deep—activate. Each Deep One activates
independently of each other Deep One. If there are multiple Deep
Ones on the board, the current player chooses the order in which
they activate.
When a Deep One activates, it attempts to defeat a character or
passenger, damage a space, or reposition itself. It resolves one of
those effects, prioritizing them as follows:
1. ATTACK a character in its space. If there are multiple characters
in the space, the current player chooses one to be attacked.
Deep Ones will not attack a revealed traitor. Revealed traitors
are described later. The current player rolls a die. If the result
is 6 or higher, the attacked character is defeated and moved to
Sick Bay.
2. DEFEAT a passenger token in the Deep One’s space. If there
are multiple passenger tokens in the space, the current player
chooses one. When a passenger is defeated, its token is flipped
faceup. For each icon presented on the passenger token,
one resource of the matching type is lost. Then remove that
passenger token from the game.
3. DAMAGE the Deep One’s space. The Deep One can only damage
its space if that space is an interior space and is not already
damaged. Damage is described later.
4. MOVE to an adjacent space. Where a Deep One moves depends
on the type of space it currently occupies:
deck space.
• If the Deep One is in a deck space, it moves to the adjacent
interior space.
• If the Deep One is in an interior space, it moves one space
toward the closest undamaged interior space. If there are
multiple valid spaces for it to move toward, it moves toward
the space with the higher number printed on it.
If there are no Deep Ones on the board (except for in the Deep),
the current player adds two Deep Ones to the Deep. Then, if there
are four or more Deep Ones in the Deep, the current player rolls a
die and moves all monsters—including Mother Hydra and Father
Dagon— in the Deep to the water space in front of the ship that
matches the result on the die.
See page 20 for examples of activating Deep Ones.
 DAMAGE
Monsters and crises can cause damage to the Atlantica. Monsters
damage specific spaces, but crises may instruct a player to damage
the ship instead. To apply damage for either situation, draw the top
card of the damage deck and resolve its effect.
Most damage cards are placed in the space that is being damaged,
but some may be removed from the game after their effect is
resolved.
Structural Damage
Place this card in the space
being damaged. Defeat each
human in that space.
Action: Discard influence ()
cards from your hand that have a
total value of 3 or more to repair this
space. (Shuffle this card into the
damage deck.)
DEFEATED
Throughout the game, characters, passengers, and Deep Ones can
be defeated in various ways. The rules for defeating the various
types of people and monsters are as follows:
J When a character is defeated, they are placed in Sick Bay.
J When a Deep One is defeated, it is returned to the supply.
J When a passenger is defeated, its token is flipped faceup. For
each icon presented on the passenger token, one resource of the
matching type is lost. When a resource is lost, that resource’s
dial is adjusted to show the new total. Then the passenger token
is removed from the game.
J When a revealed traitor is defeated, they are placed in the Brig.
Revealed traitors are described later.

Example of
Fuel Leak Damaging The Ship
The current player must “damage the ship.” They
draw the top card of the damage deck, which is a
Lose 1 fuel. Then remove this card
from the game.
Structural Damage card.

To determine which space is damaged, the

current player rolls a die and gets a result of
6, which is the Galley. Because the Galley is
already damaged, the current player must
The Structural Damage card is placed in a damaged space while
instead damage the closest undamaged space.
the Fuel Leak damage card is removed from the game after
resolving. The Brig cannot be damaged, so it is not eligible.
The Captain’s Cabin (not pictured), Cargo
While a space has a damage card in it, that space is considered Hold, and Boiler Room are all undamaged and
damaged and players cannot use the action ability for that space. adjacent to the Galley.
If a damaged space would be damaged again, the closest undamaged Of the eligible spaces, the Boiler Room has the
interior space is damaged instead. If there are multiple undamaged highest number, so the current player places the
spaces that are equally close, the space with the higher number damage card in that space.
printed on it is damaged instead.

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Place this card in the space
being damaged. Defeat each
human in that space.
Action: Discard skill cards from
your hand that have a total value of 5

are ever six damaged spaces at the same time, the game ends. or more to repair this space. (Shuffle
this card into the damage deck.)

Ending the game is described later.

To repair a damaged space, a player can perform the action ability

on a damage card in their space. When a space is repaired, the
damage card in that space is shuffled back into the damage deck. A
space with a Deep One in it cannot be repaired.

—19—
 Deep One Activation Examples
EXAMPLE 1: Four Deep Ones activate. EXAMPLE 2: Two Deep Ones activate.

1. One Deep One attacks the character in its space. A player 1. The Deep Ones are in an interior space and there are no
rolls a die and the result is a 4, which does not defeat the characters to attack, so one of them damages the space. A
character. damage card is drawn and placed in the space. The space
is now damaged, so the second Deep One cannot damage
2. A second Deep One attacks and its roll is a 7, which is it again.
enough to defeat the character. There are no characters
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damage deck.)
2. The second Deep One moves toward the closest
undamaged interior space. The Boiler Room is already
damaged (has a damage card in its space) and Deep
Ones can never move to the Brig, so it does not move to
either of those spaces. Both the Galley and the Chapel
3. The third Deep One defeats the passenger in its space. (not pictured) are undamaged. The Galley has the higher
The passenger’s defeat results in a loss of one soul () and number printed in it, so the Deep One moves there.
one sanity ().

4. The final Deep One moves following the arrow to the

Chapel. Structural Damage
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4 damage deck.)

—20—
 RISKING PASSENGERS TIME TO PLAY!
Passengers are sometimes put at risk of Deep One attacks. When Now you know enough about the game to start playing. Begin
a game effect instructs a player to “risk a passenger,” that player playing the game, and if you encounter a rule that you do not know
rolls a die and places a passenger token from the supply in the deck yet, consult the Rules Reference or simply ignore the rule for the
space that matches the die result. When instructed to risk multiple time being.
passengers, roll a die for each passenger risked and place the
passenger in the deck space that matches the die result. Continue taking turns until each player has had one turn. Then, it is
time to introduce traitors into the game! Read the “Dealing Loyalty
Card” sidebar and the rest of this Learn to Play book to learn about
ENDING THE GAME traitors.
The game ends immediately when any of the following conditions
are met: LEARNING GAME
J There are waypoint cards in play with a total distance of 12 or Dealing
more when the token on the travel track advances to the Arrive
space. Loyalty Cards
J At least one resource dial reaches 0. During each player’s first turn, all players were
working toward the survival of the humans.
J There are six damage cards on the ship at the same time. However, some players’ true loyalties lie with the
Deep Ones. Who those players are is determined
J Players must place Deep Ones on the board, but there are not by their loyalty cards.
enough Deep One figures in the supply to do so.

When one of these conditions is met, all players reveal all of their During a standard game of Unfathomable,
loyalty cards. If the first condition above was met, all players who players know their loyalties from the start. Now
have only Human loyalty cards win the game. Otherwise, all players that you have some experience with the game, it
with at least one Hybrid loyalty card win the game. is time to discover your true loyalties by dealing
out loyalty cards.

REFERENCE SHEETS Upon receiving a loyalty card, some players

might find their loyalties have changed and will
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sheets that contain useful information for players. previously knew you could trust may now be
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are relevant to human players’ turns on the other. At the start of this game, you created a loyalty
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space that

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 TRAITORS
Traitors typically take the form of Deep One and human hybrids.
These hybrids look (mostly) human, but have Deep One genes,
which can become expressed later in life. Hybrids have an
instinctive loyalty to their underwater brethren and want to see the
Atlantica sunk. Any player who has at least one Hybrid loyalty card
is a traitor.
PLAYING AS A TRAITOR
A player who has a Hybrid loyalty card is loyal to the Deep Ones.
Their objective is to prevent the Atlantica from reaching its final
destination. When a player receives a Hybrid loyalty card, they keep
that card secret so that their loyalty is unknown to the other players.
A player can play much or even all of the game with their loyalty
hidden and work to sabotage the ship in secret.

If a traitor finds the other players are suspicious of them, or if the

Y U ARE A
YO Y U ARE A
YO

HU MAN HY BRI D traitor prefers a more confrontational approach, that player can
choose to reveal themself as a traitor. Doing so makes the player a
revealed traitor and allows the player to overtly sabotage the
ship. Once a player has revealed as a traitor, they cannot go back to
being a hidden traitor.
You feel like you are a human, but you You begin to notice changes in your
can never know for sure... appearance and feel an inexplicable
compulsion to help the creatures
Whether or not a traitor has revealed themselves during the game
If you have only Human loyalty
cards, you win the game if the human
objective is met.
attacking the ship.
If the game ends before the human
does not impact their eligibility to win the game. Having a Hybrid
objective is met, you win the game
(even if you have 1 or more Human
loyalty card means that the player must prevent the human players
loyalty cards).
from achieving their objective in order to win the game, even if they
never reveal as a traitor.
Human Loyalty Card Hybrid Loyalty Card
During the game, traitors have the opportunity to reveal themselves
to be a traitor, as described in the “Playing as a Traitor” section at Playing as a
the right. However, until a traitor reveals themself, they are treated
as a human for the purposes of all game effects—just like all
Hidden Traitor
players who have only Human loyalty cards. There are many ways a hidden traitor can
sabotage the humans, such as:
As guidance for the potential traitors, the “Playing as a Hidden
Traitor” sidebar gives some tips about how to covertly pursue a SABOTAGE SKILL CHECKS: Players are not required
Deep One victory as a hidden traitor. The sidebar “To Reveal or to add supporting skill cards during skill checks.
Not to Reveal” on the next page compares the advantages and They can add opposing cards instead to reduce
disadvantages of revealing yourself as a traitor. the group total for that skill check. Because
cards are added to a skill check secretly along
DEALING LOYALTY CARDS with two random cards from the chaos deck,
During a standard game of Unfathomable, each player is dealt it is possible for a traitor to sabotage a skill
a loyalty card during setup. Later each player is dealt an additional check without being caught. If more than two
loyalty card during the awakening phase, which is described below. opposing skill cards are flipped faceup, a traitor
must have played at least some of those cards.
When players are dealt a loyalty card, all players should look at their
card for 30 seconds—players can set a time or simply count to 30 PLAY INEFFICIENTLY: There are many ways in
out loud. During that 30 seconds, each player should look at that which a hidden traitor can play inefficiently, thus
card the entire time. It is important for players to avoid looking reducing the humans’ chance of survival. For
elsewhere so they do not accidentally reveal their loyalty through example, players can lie about what skill cards
facial expressions or body language. they have or if given the opportunity to arrange
cards in a deck, they can do so in a way that
After 30 seconds has passed, each player places their loyalty card favors the traitors.
facedown. Players should avoid looking at their loyalty card again
during the game as doing so could give away their loyalty to the ABUSE THE POWER OF A TITLE: A hidden traitor
other players. who has the Captain or Keeper of the Tome title
can significantly disrupt the humans’ strategy.
For example, the Captain can ensure that the
ship travels slowly by choosing waypoint cards
with low distance values, and the Keeper can
play spell cards from the spell deck that do more
harm than good to the humans.

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To Reveal or
Not to Reveal
The decision about whether (and when) to reveal
as a traitor is an important one for traitors. A
traitor can reveal at any point during the game—
if they can take an action at that point—but
after they are revealed, there is no going back.
Here are some reasons why a player may want to
reveal and some reasons why they may want to
remain hidden.
AWAKENING PHASE
When the Atlantica has reached the halfway point in its journey, a
number of people aboard the ship feel something they never knew
was there awakening inside them…
When the waypoint cards in play have a total distance of six or more,
the Atlantica is halfway to its destination. Immediately after
resolving the waypoint card that brings that total to six or more,
each player is dealt one loyalty card from the loyalty deck. A player
who has both a Hybrid and Human loyalty card is loyal to the Deep
Ones. Because there are no cards remaining in the loyalty deck, at
least one player is now a traitor loyal to the Deep Ones.

Revealing as a traitor confers a few benefits on

the player: 2 4

• The traitor can attack human players directly.

• The traitor can draw and use treachery cards,
which have negative effects for the humans. a e
an
Hurrican Stormy Seas

• The traitor can block humans from using the Either lose 1 fuel or damage
Lose 2 fuel. Damage the ship.
action ability in the space where the traitor’s the ship twice.

standee is located.

• The traitor can more easily escape the Brig. After resolving the effects of the Stormy Seas waypoint
card, the distance traveled is six or more, so the players
• If the traitor was dealt more than one Hybrid immediately resolve the awakening phase.
loyalty card, revealing as a traitor allows the
traitor to choose another player to become
their ally by passing their extra loyalty cards
to that player.
Revealed traitors, however, have some
limitations that they do not have as an
unrevealed traitor:

• The traitor does not draw a mythos card

during their turn.
• The traitor can only add one skill card to
each skill check.
• The traitor can no longer use abilities on their
character sheet or in their space.

• The traitor can be directly attacked by

human players.
Traitors should consider these factors when
deciding whether and when to reveal as a traitor.
 Deck Chief

TURN STRUCTURE FOR

Action: Move to any deck space.
REVEALED TRAITORS
Then perform 1 action. Limit
To reveal as a traitor,once per turn.
a player with a Hybrid loyalty card performs
the “reveal as a traitor” action by following these steps: REVEALED TRAITORS
After a player reveals themself to be a traitor, their turn functions
1. The player reveals one (and only one) of their Hybrid loyalty
differently than when they were loyal humans. A traitor’s turn
cards.
comprises the following steps, which are performed in order:
2. The player resolves the “when you reveal as a traitor” ability on
their character sheet. 1. RECEIVE SKILLS

2. ACTION

Direct Off Course 3. DISCARD

When you reveal as a traitor, if Each step is described in more detail on the following pages.
you are not in the Brig, reset the
travel track.
STEP ONE: RECEIVE SKILLS
fluence Just like a human, a revealed traitor draws the number and type of
Reveal Ability for Arjun Singh skill cards shown in their skill set. However, they can choose not to
2 Strength draw any number of those cards. Then, for each card they did not
3. If the ship has traveled less than 12 distance, the player gives
ST MATE each of their unrevealed loyalty cards to one other player of
draw, they may draw a card from the treachery deck instead.
their choice. If one of those cards is a Hybrid loyalty card, this Treachery cards have abilities that only revealed traitors can use and
allows the player to choose another player to become their ally always count against skill checks.
in sinking the ship.

If any loyalty cards are given away, all players should take
30 seconds to review their loyalty cards so that the player
receiving the cards can look at them without being watched.
4. If the player has one or more titles, that player loses each of
their titles.
STEP TWO: ACTION
The player performs two actions of their choice one at a time. A
player may perform the same action twice. The actions a player can
perform on their turn are: move, attack a human, defeat a passenger,
or use an action ability.

5. The player removes their feat card from the game (if they still
have it). If they have any mythos cards in their play area, they
discard them. Then, they take a traitor reference sheet.
Revealed Traitor Rules
While you are a revealed traitor:
• You cannot add more than 1 skill card to each
skill check.
• You cannot use abilities on your character sheet or on
ship spaces.
• You can draw treachery cards and use their abilities.
• You can attack and be attacked by humans.
• Humans cannot use the action ability of your space.
Turn Structure
1. Receive Skills: Draw the number and type of skill
cards indicated on your character sheet. You may
choose not to draw any number of those cards. Then,
for each card you did not draw, draw 1 treachery card.
2. Action: Perform 2 actions from the following options:
• Move to any ship space. If you are in the Brig, you
must discard skill cards that have a total value of 12
or more before you move.
• Attack a human in your space.
• Defeat a passenger token in your space (if there are
no humans in your space).
• Use an “Action:” on one of your cards.
3. Discard: All players discard down to the hand limit
of 10 skill cards.
Traitor Rings
Advancing Tracks Traitor rings are used to indicate which
Travel Track  characters are revealed traitors. When a player
Each time the travel track advances,
move each monster in each water
space one space toward the back reveals as a traitor, add a traitor ring to that
of the ship.
When the travel track advances to
the Arrive space, the Captain looks at
player’s standee as shown below.
the top 2 cards of the waypoint deck,
places 1 on the bottom of the deck,
and then resolves the other. Then
move the token on the travel track
back to the Start space.
Ritual Track 
When the ritual track advances to the
Cast space, perform the following:
• Return all Deep Ones in deck and
water spaces to the supply.
• Move Father Dagon and Mother
Hydra to the Deep.
• Defeat each passenger token in
each deck space.
• Defeat each character in each
deck space.
Then move the token on the ritual
track back to the Start space.

Traitor Reference Sheet

6. If the player is not in the Brig, they may discard any number of
skill cards from their hand to draw an equal number of cards
from the treachery skill deck.

7. The player adds a traitor ring to their standee.

After these steps are completed, the current turn resumes. If the
player has any actions remaining in their turn, they can perform
those remaining actions using the action options for revealed
traitors described below.

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 MOVE
The player can spend one action to move to any space on the ship
INTERACTING WITH TRAITORS
With traitors wreaking havoc around the ship, the humans need
except the Brig or Sick Bay. They cannot move to a water space or some ways to handle them.
the Deep.
Any player who is not revealed as a traitor can spend one action to
If a player is in the Brig, they cannot move out of that space unless attack a revealed traitor. To do so, the attacking player must be in
they discard skill cards from their hand that have a total value of 12 the same space as the revealed traitor. Then,Interior Space
the attacking player Action A
or more. The player must discard all the skill cards at the same time rolls a die. If the result is 6 or greater, the revealed traitor is defeated
immediately before moving out of the Brig. 1-2 Bridge 3 Chapel
and sent to the Brig.
Action: Risk a passenger Action: Choose 1:
Players cannot use the ability in a named space if a revealed traitor is to look at the top 2 • Retreat the ritual track 1 space.
in that space. THE BRIG
cards of the mythos or
waypoint deck. Place • Discard 1 lore () card from your hand
Hidden traitors are more
1 card difficult
on the roll a die.
top of for other players toIfmanage
the result plus the card’s valu
6 or less, lose 1 sanity. After resolving th
ATTACK A HUMAN that deck and 1 on
because their loyalty is a secret. A player candie
the bottom.
attempt to imprison
roll, advance a track 1 space.
the ritual
The player can spend one action to attack a human in their space. player they suspect of being a traitor in the Brig by using the ability
To attack a human, the player rolls the die and if the result is 6 or of the Captain’s Cabin.
higher, the human player is defeated. 3 5
1-2 Sick
Bay
DEFEAT A PASSENGER 4 6
The player can spend one action to defeat a passenger token in their
4 Captain’s Cabin 6 Galley
space. They can only perform this action if there is not a human in
8
Action: Choose a Action: Draw up to 5 skill car
their space. If there are multiple passengers in the player’s space, character and resolve this These cards can be drawn from
they choose which passenger to defeat. skill check. If the check any non-treachery skill deck(
passes, move the chosen Then roll a die. If the result is
character to the Brig. than the number of cards draw
USE AN ACTION ABILITY lose 1 food.
The player can spend one action to use an action ability on a card in
their hand or their play area, but they cannot use action abilities on
their character sheet or in their space. Sick Bay
You draw only 1 skill card during
8 Brig
Characters in th
yourAction
ReceiveforSkills
the Captain's
step. Cabin Action: Resolve
4 Ransack move to any shi
Treachery When a player is moved to the Brig, they lose any titles they have.
Play at the start of your
Action step. The following rules apply to players while they are in the Brig (these
• If you are in the rules are summarized on the player reference sheet):
Chapel, lose 1 sanity.
• If you are in the
Galley, lose 1 food. J The player cannot leave the Brig normally.
• If you are in the Boiler
Room, lose 1 fuel. • A human must use the Brig’s action ability and pass a skill
Then end your
Action step.
check to leave.

• A revealed traitor must discard cards to leave.

When a revealed traitor plays the Ransack treachery
card, they do not get to perform actions on their turn.
Some treachery cards are played at the start of a revealed traitor’s
Action step, like the one shown above. After resolving one of these
cards, the player’s action step ends, meaning the player can neither
perform their two actions nor play other treachery cards during
their Action step.
STEP THREE: DISCARD
Each player—whether they are human or traitor—that has more
than 10 cards in hand must choose and discard cards until they
have 10.
J The player cannot add more than one card into each skill check.
J The player cannot use abilities on item cards in their play area.
J Many player abilities have the requirement “if you are not in
the Brig.” These abilities cannot be used while in the Brig. This
includes all negative effects of traitor reveal actions. (Traitors
can still reveal while in the Brig but cannot resolve the negative
effects of their reveal ability when they do so.)
J During the player’s mythos step (if they are human), they do not
resolve the crisis on the mythos card they draw and only resolve
the activation and track icons on that card. If there is a choice of
tracks icon (), the player with the Captain title chooses which
track to advance instead of the current player.

Being in the Brig can effectively neutralize a hidden traitor’s ability

to sabotage the ship. However, if you send an innocent person there,
the game can become more difficult for the humans.

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 SECRECY
A key element of Unfathomable is the uncertainty, intrigue and
paranoia surrounding the identity of the traitors. To facilitate these
feelings, guidelines about how players can communicate are needed
to allow hidden traitors the opportunity to maintain their cover
while trying to sabotage the ship.
The general guidelines for player communication are as follows:
J Players are not required to tell the truth at any time, unless
providing open information. For example, a player must reply
truthfully when asked how many cards they have in hand.
J When a player has an opportunity to look at cards in a deck, they
do so in secret and cannot show or read those cards to the other
players.
J Players should speak in generalities about any hidden
information they may be privy to so that those who are telling
the truth are indistinguishable from those who are lying.
J When players ask each other about hidden information, they can
only ask questions that can be answered with a “yes” or a “no.”
The player being asked does not have to reply truthfully or even
at all.
J Players cannot ask another player directly about that player’s
loyalty. However, players may imply, insinuate, or outright
accuse their fellow players of being traitors.
J During skill checks, players cannot say what types and values of
cards they are adding to the skill check. They may give general
information, such as “I am helping a little” or “I am helping a lot.”
When all of the cards in a skill check are revealed, players may
not say which of those cards they added to the check.
These are not intended as strict rules. Rather, they are guidelines
provided to function as a starting point from which your group
can decide upon the rules that work best for you. Follow these
guidelines for your first game and then adjust them as you see fit.
For more detailed guidelines to follow regarding communication,
see Appendix III of the Rules Reference.
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FUTURE PLAYS
You now know the basics of playing Unfathomable. If you have
questions during play, consult the glossary in the Rules Reference.
For the first teaching game, a handful of rules were changed
or omitted to make the game easier to learn. For future plays,
introduce the following rules for the complete experience:
J Each player is dealt one loyalty card during setup, instead of at
the end of the first round. This means that there can be one or
more traitors in the game from the start. Players are still dealt a
second loyalty card during the awakening phase.
J When drawing starting hands during setup, each player except
for the first player draws any three cards of their choice from
their skill set, instead of drawing their full skill set.
J In four- and six-player games, a special loyalty card, the Cultist
loyalty card, is added to the loyalty deck. See Object of the
Game in the Rules Reference for details on this loyalty card.
CLARIFICATIONS
TERMS TO KNOW
The following terms may come up on components during your first
game:
J ADJACENT: Two spaces are adjacent if they share a common
border. Spaces that share only a corner are not adjacent. A
component is adjacent to the same spaces and components as the
space it occupies. Components in adjacent spaces are adjacent to
each other.
J ENEMY: For a human, an enemy is either a Deep One or a revealed
traitor. For a revealed traitor, an enemy is a human.
IMPROVEMENT ITEMS
Some items have the Improvement keyword. These items have a
skill shown at the bottom. While that item is active, the skill shown
on it is added to the player’s skill set.
Each player can only have one active Improvement item at a time.
An Improvement item is active if it is faceup in the player’s play area.
If it is facedown, it is inactive.
At the start of a player’s turn and any time a player gains an
Improvement item, they choose any one of their Improvement
items to turn faceup and turn all of their other Improvement items
facedown.
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HEAD OF STUDIO: Chris Gerber
GAME DESIGN: Tony Fanchi
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 QUICK REFERENCE
ICONS ACTIVATING MONSTERS
SKILL ICONS  DEEP ONES

 Influence  Strength The current player activates each Deep One in each space. Each
Deep One resolves one effect, prioritized as follows:
 Lore  Treachery
1. Attack a human in the Deep One’s space.
 Observation  Will
2. Defeat a passenger in the Deep One’s space.

3. Damage the Deep One’s space (if space is interior).

ACTIVATION ICONS
4. Move to an adjacent space based on the Deep One’s current
 Mother Hydra  Father Dagon  Deep One location:

• If in a water or deck space, follow the movement arrow.

TRACK ICONS • If in an interior space, move toward the closest undamaged
interior space with the highest number.
 Travel Track  Ritual Track  Choice of Track If there are no Deep Ones on the board (except for in the Deep),
add two Deep Ones to the Deep. Then, if there are four or more
RESOURCE ICONS Deep Ones in the Deep, roll a die and move all monsters—including
Mother Hydra and Father Dagon— from the Deep to the water
 Fuel  Food space in front of the ship that matches the result.

 Sanity  Souls
 FATHER DAGON
Spawn two Deep Ones in the deck space adjacent to Father Dagon.
LOYALTY CARD DISTRIBUTIONS Then move Father Dagon one space toward the front of the ship.

PLAYER COUNT 3 4 5 6 If Father Dagon is in the Deep, spawn two Deep Ones in the Deep.
Then, if there are four or more Deep Ones in the Deep, roll a die and
HYBRID LOYALTY CARDS 1 1 2 2 move Father Dagon and all Deep Ones from the Deep to the water
CULTIST LOYALTY CARDS 0 1* 0 1* space in front of the ship that matches the result.

HUMAN LOYALTY CARDS 5 6 8 9

 MOTHER HYDRA
*For your first game, replace the Cultist loyalty card with an
additional Human loyalty card. Damage the interior space closest to Mother Hydra. (If already
damaged, damage the closest undamaged interior space with the
highest number) Then move Mother Hydra one space toward the
front of the ship.
MONSTERS
If Mother Hydra is in the Deep, spawn two Deep Ones in the
Deep. Then, if there are four or more Deep Ones in the Deep, roll a
die and move Mother Hydra and all Deep Ones from the Deep to
MONARCHS the water space in front of the ship that matches the result.

Deep Ones

Mother Hydra Father Dagon

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