1. Choose a Mission Card. Each Mission has its own difficulty level. Place the Mission card in the designated slot on the Side Board. Review any Mission-specific rules and optional checkpoint objective.
2. Prepare the Enemy Deck. Choose an enemy gang and gather its three Reserve Decks. Each tier has a different colored back. Find and separate out the boss cards for each tier. Place the bosses facedown at the bottom of their tier's deck on the Side Board. Shuffle the remaining cards in the Reserve Decks and place each tier face-down over their boss's card.
3. Choose your Vampires. Choose a Driver & Passenger Vampire; Each vampire maintains their own Draw Deck and Discard Pile throughout the game. Shuffle each vampire's 6 Starter cards separately to form their individual Draw Decks. Place each deck face-down in their respective draw deck location. (See the Vampires section for any setup needed for the Drivers and Passengers.)
4. Create the Market. Take both chosen vampires' 15 Advanced cards and shuffle them to form a Market Deck of 30 cards. Place the deck face down on the Market Deck location on the Side Board. Place 3 cards from the Market Deck face-up to the right of the Market Deck creating the Market Row.
   Note

   Players may earn additional Advanced cards by completing achievements.
5. Place Your Vehicle. Place your Vehicle card on the #1 Location on the Chase Board. This card represents your vehicle and is used for both positioning and card action resolution.
6. Prepare the Chase Board. For the five empty locations on the Chase Board, reveal and add Five Tier-I enemy gang cards from the reserve faceup onto the Chase board filling the remaining spaces; starting from the space in front of your Vehicle (location #2) and filling each empty space clockwise.
7. Set Player Board. Set your Health to 9. Set your Shield to 0.

Played over two actions

1. Shift Gears: Take the Gear-Shifter token and place it onto one of the three gear slots on your Gear Board, physically covering it. On your first turn of the game, you may place it on any slot. On every subsequent turn, you must move it — you cannot leave it on the same slot two turns in a row. The two uncovered slots are your two available Actions for this turn. Each action may only be taken once per turn. You must choose which gear to block before taking any actions. Once the Gear-Shifter is placed, it cannot be moved until your next Shift Gears step.
2. Draw hand: Draw cards from either vampire's deck in any combination until you have 5 cards in hand. When a Vampire's deck is empty, immediately shuffle that vampire's discard and recreate their draw deck; Then continue drawing. If an effect requires more cards than remain in a deck, shuffle that vampire's discard first then complete the effect. There is no hand limit — Some abilities and tokens may allow you to have more than 5 cards in hand.

   Tip

   It is generally recommended to draw 3 from the driver and 2 from the Passenger on your first turn
3. Take available Actions (in any order). Each Turn Action must be completed before the next one begins. All actions are optional. You may choose not to take an action, take it partially, or stop early.

   Action: PLAY

   Triggers Chase Activation after turns are complete

   • You may play up to 3 Vampire cards into your play area. Cards activate when played.
   • If the Vampire card has a Enhance section, Bury a Corpse from the Corpse Pile to Enhance it; Applying its additional effect after other default effects have been triggered on the card.
   • Continue playing cards to the right of the previous played card(s) until 3 are played or you choose to stop.
   • These cards will also have a Speed Symbol on the right that adjusts your speed at the end of the turn.
   • Beyond the 3 cards played per turn: additional cards can be tucked under previously played cards to use only their speed modifier bonuses.
   • You may choose to keep unplayed cards in hand for the next turn.
   • You may stop playing cards at any point before reaching your limit and proceed directly to tucking.
   • After all cards are played (including tucked cards), total all Speed Symbols on cards and move the Speed Gauge accordingly. This happens before Chase Activation.

   Action: MOVE

   • Move your car forward or backward through any number of empty slots.
   • Movement ends when you enter an occupied slot — swap positions with that enemy and transfer their dice to your previous location.

   Action: MARKET

   • Choose between Purchasing a card, Trashing a card or Cycling the market.
   • Purchase a card from the Market row by Burying the amount of Corpses shown on the top left of a card. Ability cards go on top of the matching vampire's Draw Deck. Gear cards replace the matching gear slot immediately, and its new effect triggers next time the action is taken. Refill the empty market location with a card from the top of the Market Deck.
   • Trash a card from your Hand or Discard to the Graveyard (not the Corpse Pile).
   • Cycle all cards in the Market row by placing them at the bottom of the Market Deck in any order; Then refill the Market row with 3 new face up cards.
4. End of Turn: If you performed a Play Action and Enemies are still on the board after both Turn Actions, then proceed to Chase Activation. If you performed a Play Action and all enemies are defeated, proceed to Checkpoint Passed. If you did not perform the Play Action: Return to Player Turn.

1. Check Speed — Match your speed to the chase: Calculate the sum of the speed modifiers on the faceup played and tucked cards (the speed modifier is the symbol in the top right of all vampire cards). If there are options for a card's speed value, you may choose either. If your sum matches the speed range on the back of the Reserve card's back you take no damage. If the deck is depleted, use the default print tier speed in the empty tier's reserve deck location. If the sum is not in the same color zone as the removed token, take -1 HP for each color zone of difference (max -2 HP).

   1–2Cyan · Cautious

   3–4Purple · Moderate

   5–6Dark Blue · Fast

   You cannot go below the segment 1 or above 6, and any modifiers beyond those limits are ignored.

   Example: gauge is Green, token is Red — take -2 HP.
2. Enemies activate: Enemies do not move during Chase Activation unless a card effect explicitly causes movement as part of its activation. All other enemy movement occurs during the Cleanup Phase. One at a time in clockwise order, starting with the enemy in the lowest numbered slot adjacent to your vehicle; the enemies activate the abilities written on their cards top down. Only adjacent enemies deal damage unless their card says otherwise.

   • ⌛ Late Activation Symbol: If a card has this symbol their activation is skipped until all other cards finish their activations.
   • ♾️ Ongoing: If a card has this symbol, it activates whenever the gameplay effect written on it is triggered, rather than during normal Chase Activation.
   • If an enemy is reduced to below 1 Health by activating end-of-turn effect (e.g., shield retaliation, self destructs), it still deals its full attack damage to the player before being removed from play. If an enemy is reduced to below 1 Health before their activation begins, skip their activation entirely and remove them from the board.
   • ! Note: Enemies with a Final Activation icon delay their EOT effect until all others have resolved. They trigger last.
   • If an enemy needs to move into an occupied slot during activation, it swaps positions with the enemy in that slot, transferring any tokens to the vacated location.
3. If there are any enemies with Health remaining, proceed to the Cleanup Phase.
4. If all enemies are destroyed, proceed to Checkpoint passed

1. Enemies Reposition: If any enemies were defeated this turn, surviving enemies move to fill their vacated spaces. Starting with the enemy in the lowest-numbered occupied slot, each surviving enemy moves to the nearest empty slot, measured by ring distance in whichever direction is shorter. Ties go to the lower-numbered slot. This is not a swap — enemies simply slide into the nearest empty slot and do not interact with other enemies during repositioning. Repeat until no empty slots remain or no surviving enemy can move closer to an empty slot.
2. Enemies Arrive: Reserve enemies only fill slots that remain empty after all surviving enemies have finished repositioning. They never spawn directly into the slot where an enemy was killed. Fill remaining empty slots from the reserve starting at the lowest-numbered empty slot and filling clockwise. If the Reserve is empty, no new enemies arrive and the remaining enemies must be cleared before the checkpoint ends.
3. Hand Management: Discard all played and any unwanted cards to the Discard Pile

   Remember!

   Unplayed cards may be kept for your next Play Action (unless cards exceed max handsize, then you must discard down to 5)
4. Set Shield to 0
5. Return to Player Turns.

After all enemies are defeated:

Complete achievements during playthroughs to Unlock cards to be permanently added to a Vampire's Market for future plays.

• Checkpoint Bonus Objective: Overkill two enemies before finishing the objective.
• Checkpoint Bonus Reward: Take a card from the market.