In Orléans, you recruit followers and assign them to actions to make use of their unique abilities.

• Farmers & Boatmen provide you with money and goods.

• Knights expand your available actions and protect your trade missions.

• Craftsmen build trading posts and tools.

• Scholars advance scientific progress.

• Merchants open up new action locations.

• Monks reduce the impact of luck and offer stability.

The choices are always more than the available actions, making every decision crucial and every game different.

The game offers multiple strategies for victory, encouraging players to combine all the mechanisms in the best possible way, depending on the strategy they follow. The challenge lies in the clever management of resources and followers, in order to maximize the effectiveness of each round.

The Orléans: Big Box includes all released content of the game up to 2025, as well as three new place tiles (Ortskarten / place tiles) that were originally introduced in the Anniversary Box. These tiles are fully included in the Big Box, while they are also available separately.