Spiel direkt eG only distributes a German edition of this game. For that reason, all following texts are only in German.

Your shaman group is the only hope for your tribe. Can you perform the ritual together?
You only have a limited amount of time to complete the 6 steps of the ritual... silently!
Understand your signs. Help each other. Become one.
Move the elemental stones into the right order to achieve your goals. Help your fellow shamans and complete the ritual.

In Ritual, each of you is a shaman. You try to perform a ritual together to unleash the forces of nature and protect your home based on the arrangement of the elemental stones. To win the game, you must complete the 6 steps of the ritual within three timed rounds.

Ritual is a cooperative game where you communicate about your actions instead of talking. You take colored stones (the elemental stones) from other shamans or give them some. Your goal is to fulfill your own secret tasks through this redistribution and then the public tasks of the ritual.

What makes the game special? / Why is it published by Strohmann Games?

Ritual blew us away at the first moment. The game is very unusual, so it may take a first round to "click", but then you are immediately infected. Although you try to communicate silently through your actions in the game, the game impresses with great emotions at the table and is simply endless fun.

In fact, Ritual is our first "own" game and not just a pure localization. However, the original version, which the author had already sold in small editions at trade fairs, was already so perfect that we didn't have to make any editorial adjustments to the game itself. We have only revised the graphic design and the game material again.